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I have this one

You are correct, its for lacing. I have a set of these

One method I learnt is to wrap the thread tightly around a ruler or stick marked with a couple of inches. Then count how many threads you get to the inch. There is a conversion table somewhere on the internet which converts the threads per inch to regular standard measure There should be no variation on thickness between manufacturers when using the standard nomenclature. A Tex90 should be the same size no matter who makes it. Thats the whole point of standard nomenclature

I did. The piece I had was no good. The packs in the gardening centre were £4.99 for ten but they were very poor. I bought a children's guppy fishing net with a bamboo handle for £1

I hereby present my Buzzy Swatter Mk.1 over all length is 16 inches A thong glued into the natural hole of the bamboo and a piece of thick chrome tan upholstery leather on as a grip The Whacker is two thicknesses of a leather that has some sort of reptile skin pressed into it. The bamboo shaft is split and grips the Whacker like jaws, assisted by contact glue. Whacker is 2.75 inches wide by 4.25 inches long I nearly had a tester victim today. A buzzy came through my window, saw what I was making and exited pdq

Well done. You know you'll be asked back and will have to this again don't you?

I had to do a double look That is very nice indeedy I know a couple of horse riders who'd love to have something like this on their desks

It sounds like they sold you a piece they found in the loft. If it was me I'd send it back as unsuitable

Lorinery; I had to look that up. Everyday we learn somat new

It is possible to sew in repair patches, But you need to make it look balanced. I once repaired a well loved handbag for a woman. One bottom corner had the leather ripped away, it was not possible to sew it back together as it was, After discussion with the owner I sewed on a repair patch, but I had to do the other corners as well so the patch disappeared into the over-all look of the bag. I've done the same on new-made medieval style belt pouches and other things. PS. You say 'repainting'. By this I presume you actually mean 're-dyeing' ? You'd need to clean off any lacquer finish first. For doing that I wash things down with cellulose thinners, aka lacquer thinners. With some dyes manufacturers you can get a dye colour made up to match or you may have to go a bit darker

I'm presuming its the thickness you want thinning? I have one of these hand-held skivers for doing straps et cetera If its to reduce the width; I think its on this site that someone made a lacing cutter. Basically, a wood base, two wood walls and a piece over the top, embedded in the base part was a razor blade. You pull the lace thru the two wood walls and the razor blade shaves off one side to narrow it. You could use this concept to reduce the thickness

Can you get what you need, or some of it from Le Prevo? Sometimes, with other companies, I find that by cancelling a really overdue back order from one place and getting it in from another makes the first company shift themselves

My thoughts; 1. whatever weight you use, use plain clean white paper on top of the coaster, not used paper, not brown and especially not newspaper 2. absolutely no heat 3. wot he says; I got a basketweave embossing plate from Bunkhousetools, aka duckcreektraders. It wasn't too expensive. https://www.shop.bunkhousetools.com/Embossing-Plates_c4.htm I've also bought from this chap in Russia https://www.ebay.com/itm/224174509500?hash=item3431d78dbc:g:d3IAAOSwE3JcWFyb Maybe one of them would make you a plate?

Before any conditioner, a good wash down with saddle soap I would certainly replace those handle dees. In fact I'd replace all the external metal work with brass ones where possible

you're behind the news. Its a bridge betwixt Ulster and Scotland, and work is actually going on - they are looking for a site for our end, actual surveying work not just, 'umm that looks a nice place' But its all on the q. t. right now

yup, shore iz. Nice one. I've had a few days of un-wellness so I've not made mine yet. I need to see if I've got some bamboo

On etsy 1. its a privately owned on-line shopping place. They can put in place any rules they like 2. Like so many other bricks n mortar and on-line places the wimps and idiots set the rules

02.00 here, time for bed but I'll be on it later

you're on! No, I don't know. A fancy 'hand made' real genuine leather and real wood / grass diptera exterminator? N.I. is both IN and Out of both the UK and EU. Confused?, so are we. I no longer do any smuggling, latest smuggling, afaik, has just been fuel, alcohol drinks, tobacco and illegal type drugs. I'm sorry this has hi-jacked your fly swatter thread

Buy a plastic basin. During a session, for a change in colour just a rinse thru with alcohol sprayed through works for me. A full strip down and cleaning after the session is over. I've never taken the airbrush to a sink - too much chance of loosing the small parts down the drain hole. I just dismantle and clean over a small ex-food tray dish.

A small piece of scrap leather glued onto the main piece to form a pocket for the end of the dowel or bamboo, which would look nice, to slip into. Bamboo can be bought from the likes of gardening centres as plant supports. A few years ago I made bamboo cane pens from the plant support canes. 10 x 4ft canes cost me £0.99.

ah, there be the double catch, we are still UK as well so food etc still needs to go through the customs of EU - UK. It has to go through the customs and paperwork which ever place it come from. Thats why there is a row about it and nightly riots on our streets

N.I. still allows EU citizens in to live and work. Post is ok but other items are being held up by customs eg; we now can't get sausages or processed meat in from Britain without it having a veterinary certificate. We are actually running short of certain foods in the shops eg fresh fruit & veggies. Rationing is in place; no more than two or three of certain items. I've problem coming up; Its going to be hard and/or costly to get new leather from my supplier in England. Each hide needs a veterinary certificate, which has to be obtained by the courier. A couple of hides from England are going to cost about £90 in courier fees (used to be £16) and will take up to 2 weeks to go through customs (used to take 2 days & no customs). I can buy the leather from Tandy in USA. Courier fees including customs/taxes is £31 and 48 hour delivery I'm seriously worried about the lack of insects here. Hardly any mosquitos here but we have a big black non-biting midge. One thing about this island is there are no insects or animals that want to injure or kill a person. Even the sharks along the coast are friendly - they are Basking Shark and they only eat plankton

I'll throw one in for youse; it reminds me of a gardener's / farmer's harvesting or slip knife. My B-i-L was both a farmer and a gardener and he had a knife with a similar blade but his was a fold-in knife

Looks well. I bet those colours really show better in person than any photo can show Depends just how far ya wanna go. A cheap airbrush can be bought from the likes of Harbor-wotsit for as little as about $15. But you need a compressor, thats more expensive I use a carboard box as my spray-box chamber in my spare room. I just change to box when it needs changing. I don't get too much over-spay but in case I do I just cover anything in about 2 ft range with old rags