Sheilajeanne

Northmount, please note the date of the OP's post. It was over a year ago. I doubt he's still around!

Wow! Love the functional, yet unique design! Love the contrasting stitching! Your stitching is very nice and straight and even. Beautifully done! One question: where is the shoulder strap? You have D-rings for it on the bag, but don't show it in the photos. Would like to see it!

Here's a link that give more detail. Playtex had to fight for the right to submit a suit for testing, after being fired by a corporation that wanted to secure the contract for themselves!! https://www.fastcompany.com/90375440/the-improbable-story-of-the-bra-maker-who-won-the-right-to-make-astronaut-spacesuits?fbclid=IwAR3ZblSI6G3uTG_0FmaX1pgLDCAX1hhLhy-Psd8N1K8360pGFiMv6ZcAFdI

Just take a look a this!! Facebook link, because some of the comments from people who worked on the spacesuit are very interesting: https://www.facebook.com/Mothmanrises/photos/a.285102004950964/2283288111799000/?type=3&theater When sewing the harnesses for the suits, sometimes the tolerance was ZERO inches!!

Or I could stick it over my head, and put a tuque over top... Any of you old farts remember what movie the photo is from?

Speaking of hats, I am just wondering if there would be SOME way to duplicate this hat in leather: I'm wanting to do this for a Halloween costume. The original is obviously felt, and the crown is just one piece. If you were doing it in leather, I think the brim and crown would have to be separate pieces, but wondering if a rounded crown like that would be possible, if you moulded the leather around a form.

My brother used to have the Colt 6 gun.

NW, yeah, have to confess, I've had a hard time getting a good impression from some of the Tandy flower center stamps! I've been tempted to use a REAL hammer to hit them with, but that might damage the stamp! Anyway, was just showing those of examples of what's out there. And I think that center you showed may be a stamp. How wide across is it?

I second that emotion!! Yup, nice cold one... They have invaded Hawaii, too. I saw an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter where they nearly lost one of their dogs to a cane toad! It was almost totally paralyzed!

This makes NO sense! Some of the most inhumane uses of dog fur comes from Asian countries, where the animals are slaughtered for their meat, then the fur used to trim garments that are sold overseas. Sometimes the fur is falsely labelled as being from another animal, (e.g. a coyote or wolf.)

Apparently, cane toads can even kill huge salt water crocodiles, if they eat enough of them!! That's some SERIOUS toxin they produce!

There are many different one-hit flower centers. Here are some examples from Tandy: https://www.tandyleather.ca/en/eflyer/craftool-stamps-fullpage Edit: go to page 2 to see them!

Australia got the gold medal when it came to introduced species, because your flora and fauna is so very unique that it can't cope with foreign species. About the only introduced species in California that craft people might be interested in, other than some snakes and reptiles, is the nutria, a critter similar to the muskrat. I would imagine the ban does NOT apply to introduced species! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_invasive_species_in_California

If you want to go really cheap (FREE) I use cardboard (boxboard) from Family Size cereal boxes! I would bet the flexible cutting boards from Ikea are the same as the ones from the Dollar Store, only cheaper! Might give those a try from my more frequently used templates.

Very nice! Was that picture done with a laser printer?

Mike, when my dad was a lad, he slept on a mattress stuffed with corn shucks. Occasionally, the sharp end of one of the shucks would be poking him, and he'd have to pummel the mattress with his fist to re-arrange the stuffing! I think the mattresses were home-made. He was one of 10 kids in a farming family. Never would have thought of a cobbler making mattresses, either!

One of the most important tools for doing leashes and collars is a good strap cutter. That should be your first purchase. You probably will not want to buy large quantities of leather at first. A good alternative is to look for belt blanks on sale. The leather is already finished and dyed on some blanks, or if you want to tool it, just get the natural veg tan blanks. Strap leather is also frequently available on sale at Tandy. If you just want to add 'bling' to collars, you won't need stamps, just setting tools and punches and tools for finishing and slicking edges, such as an edge beveler and edge slickers. Edges can be slicked manually, or you can go high tech and use an electric drill or bench grinder motor, and attach the slicker to that.

Lovely tooling great design...uh, are those zip ties holding it to the crutch?? Hey, they have their uses...lol!

Does leather dye work on them? What sort of dye do you use?

Trigger, Roy's palomino horse, was so famous, he got second billing in most of Roy's movies! When the original Trigger died, Roy had him stuffed, and put him in his museum. Unfortunately, visits at the museum dropped off after Roy's death, and his son, Roy Jr. closed it and auctioned everything off: https://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0716/Roy-Rogers-Trigger-along-with-dog-Bullet-sold-to-Nebraska-TV-network-at-auction That's Bolin's saddle, breastplate, and (I'm guessing ) bridle that Trigger is still wearing. P.S. The guy holding Roy's guitar in that picture has NO CLUE what he's doing!!

Will someone please tell E-bay that Canada is NOT overseas!! Okay, it's probably because you said you'd only sell to buyers within the continental U.S.A. Edit: earlier this year, I sold a large-ish batch of stamps to someone in the U.S., after advertising them on this board. I just wrapped them up really well, and let the local post office calculate the shipping, which the buyer reimbursed me for via PayPal. It was quite simple! Would have been even simpler if the second person who wanted the stamps had spoken sooner...THEY lived within easy driving distance!

I can see that you have a 100% positive rating though, with 995 transactions. That's pretty impressive!

Yes, I did, and it returned 0 items. It could be because E-bay is not letting me sign in. Edit: I am now signed in to E-Bay, and it is still returning 0 results for your account.