Sheilajeanne

I have an old table I salvaged from the garbage. Now that it's not winter, I may set that up in the garage as a dedicated dye table.

Thanks for the suggestion! They'd be hard to knock over with that shape, too.

Having a tiny perfect leather working station, I control dyes by carefully measuring them with a 1 ml. syringe into a heavy-bottomed shot glass that's hard to knock over. I also use lots of newspaper on my work area. Bottles are immediately tightly recapped, and moved back into a corner where they can't get knocked over. I also frequently wipe caps and the bottles themselves to help prevent drips, and make the caps easier to take off next time. Nothing pisses me off more than having to fight with the caps on these bottles to get them open! It's an accident looking for a place to happen when you have to use that much force on them! Don't ya wish they could design these bottles better? I'd like to see bottles with a dropper tip, similar to a glue bottle, instead of the ones you have to press down and turn. I also move bottles out of the work area as soon as I think I'm done with a particular colour of dye. Worst accident I had was when my cat knocked one over. It leaked, he stepped in it, and tracked it all over the floor! I've been more careful with the bottles since, and don't leave them where he can do that again. The one part of the floor I couldn't get the stain off of already had some burn marks from the wood stove, so at least the stains match!!

My first computer was a Tandy! No compliants - it lasted may years until the video card bit the dust! Used it for all my nursing college papers/assignments. Also had a Tandy laptop -brick of a thing, but it, too was nearly impossible to kill. I nearly bought a tube radio yesterday: the radio of my childhood, a late '40's Viking (T. Eaton Co.) Still works, sounds great...ah, the nostalgia!! https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/electrohom_viking_49_33_emu51_418.html

Fred, are you one of these crazy people? 'Tis better to give.... than receive! :D

The traditional method of marking arrows is to use the painted bands just below the fletching. Each set of bands, and the colour of the fletching (feathers) would be specific to one member of a club. That's what those bands are for. Whatever happened to THAT time-honoured method?? Gone the way of the dodo bird?

Love this forum!!

It was supposed to go in this thread:

My mother did knitting and crocheting as a hobby. She passed away in November of 2016. Last summer, after the sale of her house, I brought back a trailer load of her stuff to sell at a yard sale. This included some of the things she'd knitted or crocheted. One of the things that wasn't really part of the sale was a hand crocheted queen sized bedspread. I could only imagine how much work had gone into that beautiful piece! In the final hours of any yard sale, you get the bargain hunters dropping by. A lady came past who had been there earlier in the day. She crocheted, so had bought some of the yarn I was selling for a very cheap price (fill a shopping bag for $2.00.) She had also looked at the quilt earlier in the day, but I told her I really hadn't planned to sell it, and was unwilling to put a price on it. When she came back, she wanted that quilt. Problem was, she wanted it for $20.00. To me, that was an insult to my mom's memory, and all the hard work that had gone into it. I gave her a firm 'no', and she walked away. As I already have a beautiful handmade quilt on my own bed, and the quilt was white, very heavy and difficult to wash (and I have a black cat that sleeps on my bed) I gave the quilt away to a cousin. At least it's still in the family, cherished by someone who knew my mom personally.

Sorry, the above post about my mom's quilt is in the WRONG THREAD! If it seems off topic, now you know WHY!

My mother did knitting and crocheting as a hobby. She passed away in November of 2016. Last summer, after the sale of her house, I brought back a trailer load of her stuff to sell at a yard sale. This included some of the things she'd knitted or crocheted. One of the things that wasn't really part of the sale was a hand crocheted queen sized bedspread. I could only imagine how much work had gone into that beautiful piece! In the final hours of any yard sale, you get the bargain hunters dropping by. A lady came past who had been there earlier in the day. She crocheted, so had bought some of the yarn I was selling for a very cheap price (fill a shopping bag for $2.00.) She had also looked at the quilt earlier in the day, but I told her I really hadn't planned to sell it, and was unwilling to put a price on it. When she came back, she wanted that quilt. Problem was, she wanted it for $20.00. To me, that was an insult to my mom's memory, and all the hard work that had gone into it. I gave her a firm 'no', and she walked away. As I already have a beautiful handmade quilt on my own bed, and the quilt was white, very heavy and difficult to wash (and I have a black cat that sleeps on my bed) I gave the quilt away to a cousin. At least it's still in the family, cherished by someone who knew my mom personally.

Here's another idea: pieces of PVC pipe cut at an angle: And here's the magnetic strip tool holder!

If you look through the "Show Your Work Area" thread you will see some excellent ideas. One I kind of like is using a rack with magnetic strips on it to hold these tools.That way you don't have to worry about the tools being different sizes, as you might if each tool had a separate slot in a rack.

I'd also worry about the handle poking me in the stomach/chest when I had to bend over if it rode too high in the sheathe. There's that to consider as well. I remember an old WWII series (Rat Patrol) where one of the guys carried a bayonet knife. He'd strap it to his leg so it wasn't swinging around and getting in the way. Makes sense for a blade that long!

Yes, the compound has petrochemicals in it that will rot stitching!

Retswerb, how true is that! LOL!

Canada's former PM could have used this when our current PM was a young'un! Have always LOVED this picture, because Trudeau looks so P.O.'d. The joys of fatherhood...LOL! (That's not Trudeau's wife off to his left, BTW, just an unidentified Parliament Hill employee.)

I just realized I still have that knife sheathe I made out of the old gun belt. I was probably 11 or 12 at the time, and aside from an old awl, had no tools but regular sewing needles and button thread. I also made the knife handle. The blade was a really nice Solingen steel blade from a hunting knife. The original handle on the knife was deer horn, and gave me wicked blisters when I tried to use it. So, I pressed two pieces of cedar together, and shaped the handle to fit my hand. I think a carpet tack was used to anchor the tang, and a piece of chamois leather was moistened and glued in place to wrap the hilt. The knife was my favourite knife for carving/whittling until some idiot left it sitting ontop of a red-hot woodstove on a camping trip. The wood didn't catch fire, but it was badly charred, and I stopped using the knife after that, for fear the handle would just fall apart on me. Believe me, I had some choice words for whoever left it on the stove, though the guilty party never 'fessed up! Ookay, let's remember to post the friggin' PICTURE this time! The leather thong I used to hold the knife in the sheathe has rotted over the years due to age. Maybe one of these days, I'll replace the handle, and maybe the sheathe as well, or at least redo the stitching, which has worn out in a couple of places from friction. This was my first ever effort at saddle stitching, and I think it didn't turn out too badly, given the lack of proper tools!

I don't really remember what my first project was. When I was in Gr. 7 and 8, I started taking archery lessons at my school. I made myself an arm guard and some finger tabs. I also found a rounder off a saddle at the local dude ranch, and that was my first effort at stamping leather. I stamped a four leaf clover onto it, using a jack knife, and home made tools, and used it for years as a coaster on my bedside table. It disappeared one day, and I suspect it fell into the wastebasket and got accidentally tossed out. I also took apart an old gun holster from a cap gun I had when I was a kid, and made a bracer and a knife sheath out of it. (I still have the six-shooter cap gun that came with the holster, though the catch on the loading mechanism got busted, and at some point, I sawed the barrel off so I could pretend it was a modern hand gun, and play 'secret agent' with it. Oh, and I made the holster into a shoulder rig... My parents tried to encourage my interest, but didn't really know how. When they bought me a piece of tie-dyed leather at Tandy's I had no books or tools to go with it, and had no idea what to do with it. Eventually, my interest in leather faded, but never completely died. Then, 2 1/2 years ago, I bought a beginner's kit at Tandy's. The idea was to learn to make leashes and collars to sell as part of my dog-boarding business. I took 8 weeks of free lessons and was hooked!

NOt knowing what a Brompton bike is, I had to Google it. They want $89 Canadian for that nylon bike handle. That is INSANE!!

I am also very jealous of your tool rack and its contents, Tim! I'm sure there's a few others here, too, who feel the same way, but haven't mentioned it!

I use Sunsilver on a couple of Tolkien/Lord of the Rings forums, and two dog forums. Sheilajeanne on most others, unless it's my real name, Jane F**** (Facebook mostly.) I was a moderator on a nursing forum, where I used Jay-Jay. The weird, weird stuff that went on on that forum!! One of the mods had her identity hacked, and another was stalked by a poster! I was VERY glad I kept my identity a secret, and never let out any personal information!