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    I can get the same detail as the press by using my thumbs and knuckles, but it saves a lot of time (and soreness) to use the press. The press gets about the same definition as the holsters PeterK's holster shows above. For all intents and purposes, this is all that needs to be done for a good functional holster. I like the look of crisp clean lines, so I try to emphasize the more prominent angles with sharper boned edges, if that makes any sense. A couple of tricks -
    • shape and bone the holster like normal, and the chase the shapes again with a smaller (but still blunt) boning tool - I actually use the handle for an antique thread cutting dye or the round edge of a bone folder

    • make sure the holster is almost completely dry before chasing it with a finer edged boning tool (for this I use the narrow edge of a traditional bone folder)

    • don't try to show every detail; only boning prominent features looks good and clean (this is of course only my personal opinion)

    • don't run sharp boning lines all the way into other lines; leave a little gap between lines that would run together, and try to stop short with your boning lines instead of running them off the edge of your leather (or overlapping them with stitch grooves or edge creases)

    • less is often more; learn when to leave well enough alone (the more time you spend on a piece of leather, the more opportunities you give yourself to screw things up)

    Thanks for this and as always, great looking rigs.

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    The design is an old military pattern. Many countries have used this shoulder holster pattern for over 50 years - I also know that some still use them for their flyboys.

    I think it makes sense, but regardless of the padded Y, it suffers from uneven weight distribution. Thus, shifting and slipping is inevitable with this style. I also think that eliminating the holster-side tie down would be a mistake - it will flop.

    The biggest problem I have with shoulder rigs, is that the pistol needs to be up under my arm far enough to conceal properly, but then my arm can't hang naturally. They simply don't work well for me unless I have a jacket, large sweatshirt, or heavy coat (which make the pistol pretty inaccessible and useless).

    I do wish you good luck with this though - if you nail it, you could make a serious advancement in shoulder rigs. :)

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    Windows Defender: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...er/default.mspx

    Windows Defender is software that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software by detecting and removing known spyware from your computer.

    AVG is still free and they still maintain it.

    http://free.avg.com/

    I used to use Black Ice for a firewall, but go other routes now.

    Tex, you may have more problems afoot than getting some software configured. Methinks you have a hardware issue that should be addressed.

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    The chances of you being remotely hacked and the user gaining explicit control over your machine without you knowing aren't very good. It sounds to me like a piece of adware/spyware with a double-click agent. You type something in Google, and it redirects you to other sites. Whenever it takes a hop (even if you don't see the page), the page creates a cookie in your cache, thus appearing like you've gone several places, even though you haven't. This kind of stuff is pretty common, and since you say you're using Spybot, I would also advise acquiring a copy of AdAware and running it when you run Spybot S&D (AdAware: http://www.lavasoft.com/single/trialpay.php (click the green FREE bttn)).

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    Agreed. They should be the same. But one performs differently than the other, at least on my PC. A while back, we were having similar issues with links that had the "www." in front of "leatherworker.net." Supposedly the same page, but not quite... :dunno:

    On my end, I've seen the issue with IE7, Firefox 2.0.0.3 and 3.0. At least it seems like several of us who were having this problem have found a way around it now!

    Thanks for the suggestions posted in this thread. :)

    -Alex

    The discrepancy between having the 'www' in front of the address is a real pita. That, indeed, does makes things different, and it's all how the host is setup (lw.net). The lw.net/forum and lw.net/forum/index.php issue, however, are the same thing. The host looks for the file 'index.*' (where's * is a wildcard - php, asp, htm, etc) first, before any other file. When you access lw.net/forum you are accessing the index file.

    When I write applications that have to go fetch outside data(particularly in Flash), I'm usually working around IE and FF because without the www's, Firefox will sometimes ignore the path altogether.

    In any case, I'd wager that using: http://www.leatherworker.net/forum as your bookmark/favorite link will fix you right up.

    Cheers!

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    I don't have this problem on any machine that I log into this site on. I can tell you that a 403 is a forbidden and a 404 is not found. My hypothesis is that you have a favorite with variables in it, and when the page tries to assign new variables, it assigns a link at the end and you end up with something like this: http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?h...showtopic=11404 (which should yield the same error you have).

    My opinion is that you need to recreate your bookmark link with: http://leatherworker.net/forum , as I think your's has variables (perhaps session ID's?), on the end. (Variable are indicated by the ? following the page name. For example, if I wanted to pass the variable 'user' with a value of 'Mike', I would write the string as: http://leatherworker.net/forum?user=mike . You need to remove all of the variable your favorite link may have - including the ?.)

    Again, my hypothesis.

    Cheers!

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    TwinOaks, I'm trolling through here as I never even realized this section of the forum existed.

    Coffeecup is crap, as well as most *free website builders, either web-based or stand alone. As a web developer+designer by trade, I can tell you that understanding how your site works will make your site better in ways you probably don't care about now. I'll also be the first on here to tell you that you should try learning some basic HTML, as it's very easy to pick up and will get you going in the right direction. For software, Notepad++ is lightweight and free, and gives you color coding like Dreamweaver (my personal choice). It isn't, however, a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). Dreamweaver can be used in design view, which will probably give you the point and click design you want, but will also help you write validated code, which is something I'm sort of a stickler about. Anyway, enough of me - PM if you need some help.

  22. Posted · Edited by dickf · Report reply

    As someone who deals with many large compressed filetypes, I can attest that 7zip is probably the most powerful and lightweight of all. Plus, it's totally open source (free). http://www.7-zip.org/

    It can unpack: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.

    And can pack up: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR (<= the latter is greatly useful if you run a Linux box)

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