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@Mulesaw thanks for the PDF. I was looking for mine but I think I have a paper set of patterns

Tandy does/did a pattern set for Chaps I'm sure the Bat-wing pattern in that set could be adapted to your needs

yup, I like them, A bit of class

Being a lazy sod I'd use an electric planer

T'other night my #1 favourite dottir was telling me about a D&D game she is leading. The players play remotely by computer link-up The game was so seriously involved it made 4 dimensional chess seem like an infants game

They look spot-on there I've seen far worser being sold as 'artisan' made. And they weren't cheap The house I used to live on was built over a clay base. Clay was only 18 inches below the soil. The whole area used to be known for high quality clay pots and bricks. Still is for the bricks, major exporter of

If you can, take it to a timberyard and get them to put it through their planer-thicknesser to take off a few millimeters

I do make some leather goods for D&D players Lets confine it to that?

I do believe the ancients never used chicken fat of grease on their leather They had high quality tallow, goose grease, olive oil, nut oils to choose from The smell of rancid chicken is too powerful for even their noses A recent BBC news story (two days ago) that police closed an area of a park whilst forensics checked out a smell. Social Media reported a body had been found. Turned out to be a bag of chicken wings which had been dumped! Beeswax candles were very uncommon. In the 7th C (600s) a monk wrote to the pope seeking permission to import bees from north France into Ireland (Hibernia) as there were no bees there so he could not make candles In the 8th to 11th centuries Viking traders imported bees into Hibernia so they could make meade and sell the wax. They recorded that there were no bee hives in Hibernia

Refined tallow candles were the usual. Even refined whale oil. Beeswax candles were for the clergy only, and from the 1st Century. Candle makers had their own way of refining tallow and the best candle makers were sought out for the purity of their candles. A slight smell of cooking beef.

There must be something in the settings because when I click on a subject it automatically goes to the last message posted I dunno where to find it. Perhaps if we summon @Northmount he might know

I can see the record centre now youse mention it but my first thought was of the Isle of Mann three legs symbol, the triskelion

Hygiene was higher than Hollywood movies would have you believe. There were several house-hold books published at the time regarding hygiene and many, many cook books some of which touched on the subject

you lot are really dangerous to yourselves. I'd not let any of you loose with a plastic spoon to eat some Jello/jelly !

Thats a nice bit of tooling But, what ruins the look for me is that short strap coming over the top and almost blocking out one leaf, leaving a hint of it

As the price of scrap* is so low you wouldn't get the price of the gas to take it to the scrapyard Worth far more, working or not, to a user or collector * £175 per dirty ton of scrap iron. So about $2 for it as scrap

When I moved to the UK as youngster I no sooner got used to the £ s d of British money when they went and changed to decimal £ p! afaik the US Army in Vietnam used kilometers as a measure of distance; 1 km = 1 'click' My '78 Cadillac, built in New Jersey, had 2 different metric bolt threads (fine and coarse) and 2 different US threads (UNC and UNF) plus a few other odd threads

Go with what you know to be the better construction; use a welt

Too much dye localised Are you wetting your leather before applying the dye?

Have a good day Be careful and enjoy yourself

I would start by asking 'Bunkhouse Tools'

Naw, it be ok. I just zip past anything I don't want to read

Logged out and in again and I still see the Adult stuff

That didn't work for me

ach, sure, you're a dear