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Yes, you can still get them in brass. Oddly enuf, my #1 son's belt needs a new buckle and all he finds are brass ones, which he doesn't like Shame to say it but try Temu

I must awa agin tae the meet shoppe an git me a haggis for Burns Night is nearly oun us

When I wuz a postie I delivered to a house which had about 6 guard geese. They were really vicious. More than any dog. Here posties bring the mail right to your door. I had to climb the 5 ft high gate and sprint to the door, put mail through, then sprint back to the gate and leap over it before the geese spotted me One week a new driver was on as my relief, I warned him about the geese, as did the supervisor. His attitude was 'yeah, right, I believe you, you're winding me up'. Later the office got a call to come and rescue this driver. I had to take him to the emergency dept at the hospital as he lay in the back of a small post van. A goose got him and had taken a lump the size of your hand out of his ass. The doc asked what had happened, at first he didn't believe me then he burst out laughing as he stitched the flap of ass skin back in place. That driver came back to work at the P.O.* As a note; the Post Office can invoke a law for people to keep their animals under control so not endangering posties. But we looked at the list of animals and geese weren't on it! * I just remembered that driver's name, It was Rodger. And some wit in work made up wee ditty about this incident. Wish I could remember it now

In my experience, if the stitches are too close together and pulled too tight they can cut through the suede

I would use contact adhesive just along the parts the eyelets will go suede doesn't burnish well at all if its good quality suede, and you use medium sized and spaced stitching holes withmedium thick thread I reckon on 3 mm or 1/8 inch, I'd glue the very edge, that 3 mm, to the other leather

They burn all of them here every July 11th Just one example of the many here

yes, its nice piece, I would have laced the front panel on as well for continuity . More Viking designs on front panel, back panel and flap. The Vikings did not leave any surface undecorated

So, you'll sew the bullet loops on first, then the suede, and then the eyelets?

if it was good enuf for the Vikings its good enuf for me

Just about everyone on here uses glue. Usually a good contact glue. The make depends on where you live. the brands I use are UHU and Evostick. I also use PVA glue

Skive about 10 pr 12 mm from each edge

True or not its a well told fun story I once had a fight with a seagull whilst motorcycling to work early one morning. Them gulls have a big wingspan and razor sharp beak, I won the fight eventually but was covered in white feathers

My #1 son and I do the occasional toy car faires. We are usually first to set up and last to leave. Other traders take their time getting in and are usually packed up about 45 minutes before the show ends. We do a ton of trade before the rest arrive & after the other traders are packed up It has been known for us to be still selling an hour after the show closed with the toy collectors coming out to our cars to see what we have We can't understand why the other traders pay a heap of money for a stand and don't stay to the death Our stuff is easily arranged in several plastic boxes; one box is all £1, another is £2 et cetera. Everything is secretly marked to show which box it came from. No sly ones get past us

@hansgruber you can get paint pens with an 0.8 mm point. The paint in them can either be acrylic or oil. They are meant for detailing automobiles. I use them on my game boards. I'd use deer skin rather than sheep

Its too thin to tool but it takes dye nicely

Try Le Prevo in England

add; and my wee engraving pen, which I've never used. That cost me £6.50 ($7?) But I need to find them in my storage unit!

You could do that and earn your money back by offering the heads to other leather workers eg, on here. Do it the 'Airfix' way; make the parts and let the buyer assemble them and paint it (if they want to)

a silly thot; ask dieselpunk.ro. (Tony See) I bet he'd come up with a pattern to make a leather one! edit; to correct a word

That might be a bit small. Might do for a Shetland pony tho

Interesting machine. I see it could have its uses. I might try something with my old Burgess wood carver. Might have found a new use for it

When doing a long item I dip dye. I dilute the dye 1 : 1. I use any deep container that I had to hand. Then roll the item up in a coil and place it in the dye for a minute or so then a I see-saw it; an old technique for developing films; I bring the two ends of the item out of the dye then with each end in each hand I slowly dip one end in the dye and pull the other end further out, then that end gets dipped and the first end comes out. I do this for as long as necessary to get an even dye 1.5 ft by 2 ft; I wet the leather first, then use a 1 or 1.5 inch wide paint brush to apply the diluted dye, working from the center to the edges

I don't think 3D printing would really work. You'd be paying as much as the commercial heads. I would look for an amateur or hobbyist wood worker to make them from wood; kinda like rocking horses heads but scale bigger

@revilop I would advise you to get a stitching clamp. It'll make things easier, your sewing will improve greatly being able to have something to hold your work in. A clamp can cost as little as $10, but is worth its weight in uranium Or you can make your own from scraps of wood. When I started in this lark 25 years ago I made my own clamp, and still use it My ancient home-made one; My bought in one, more transportable cos it comes apart easily & is smaller;

We need more information on what tools you have, what tools you are using and so on