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That is right tidy so it is. and thanks for all that info on its construction and finish. If anyone but a leatherworker were to read it they'd be totally confused, it reads like a secret code!

According to ISMACS - a 31k from 1948 - 1954, made at St, Johns Singer factory

umm, thats what I said in a different manner

East coast, about 20 miles east of Belfast, near the mouth of Belfast Lough. 7 miles further east of Bangor https://www.google.com/maps/place/Donaghadee/@54.5890347,-5.7743502,10z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4861762a42e07373:0xe985d44e36324315!8m2!3d54.6425555!4d-5.5375995 Mayobridge, a place where I've rallied through but never needed to stop in.

Actually, no, It was taken in Belfast Courts. On grounds of 'misrepresentation' of an 'endorsed product'. The shop did not promote the T-shirt as endorsed or official. They lost, compensation of £10,000, costs (estimated at £50,000) plus destruction of £25,000 worth of T-shirts. Shop no longer exists, owner on social security benefits and social housing. In the US a person has automatic 'copyright' of their image so this case could have been taken as 'breach of copyright' in the US There's a world of difference between me taking a BMW badge and adding it to my own key ring and me taking that same badge and adding it to products I could make for my son's garage to sell (he sells BMW car parts and services BMW cars) without BMW saying its ok. Its just not 'American' big business, its all companies which have a brand to protect. BMW own the brand name of Mini and produce a new version of the car. Late 1990s they sent a cease notice to a club in Northern Ireland. The club was Minis In Northern Ireland, M.I.N.I. The club let it go to court. BMW lost as the club origins went back to the 1970s and the court ruled Mini was a descriptive word and its use could not be enforced outside the context of using as describing one certain car.

Even that will be seen as copyright infringement and false representation of the item being endorsed by the company*. If you make less than a dozen the big company may not notice you, but start making a hundred and you'll soon feel their weight. * a number of years ago a T-shirt company in Belfast fell foul of the singer Rihanna. They obtained photos of her and printed them on their T-shirts. There is no law here, unlike the US, to protect a person's image. The company was sued for false representation that the T-shirts were 'endorsed' by Rihanna. Some of the photos used were Rihanna's own publicity shots sent out to publicise her events Harley Davidson has come down hard on people making items and including bought HD merchandise. One that comes to mind was someone making a plain leather 'biker's wallet' and attaching a HD key ring to it on its chain. HD told him to cease, they had not 'endorsed' the wallet and buyers might be mis-led into thinking they had

Please refrain from typing all in capitals. It is equal to shouting and it is not necessary

I guarantee all my work for life too but in the UK the law is that guarantee is only applicable to the first buyer

On the 'flower' type ones try getting needle-nose pliers under each petal, gripping it and bending it upwards. If you can get petals on opposing sides up a bit you can use regular pliers to go across two and squeeze and they'll bend upwards, then inwards towards the centre.

Even if you have a million quad zillion holsters made there will always be someone who will try to blame you and your holster on their failing. People do not want to accept their own failing and always want to blame others and in doing so go to law and sue. But its rare, very rare. If you read it in a newspaper, its because its rare. Here in the UK, for a small amount, like a few ££ we can buy 'product liability insurance' which gives cover up to £5 mill. No, I've not bought the insurance cos I'm not worried about any claim. I did have an incident which reflects on this. I used to make battle-ready medieval type shields. One day I got a letter from a lawyer type going to sue me cos a guige strap on a shield had broken and his client had got hurt. Through a friend I got a video of the incident. A. the client was not someone I'd sold the shield to b. he was through it around holding by the guige. c. I got a piece of the guige strap which had broken. Answer to lawyer; a. client was not my customer, guarantee of goods not transferable, b. his client was using the shield in a manner it was not designed for, ie the guige is only for carrying the shield. c. the bit of strap was PVC not leather, the client had replaced the leather strap with a bit of old handbag strap. Never heard another word about it but I heard that that 'client' was banned from numerous societies for trying to make stupid claims.

Put up a length of washing-line. Before you do thread it though the finger parts of bulldog clips so the jaws of the clips are a right-angle to the line. Then you just use the bulldog clip to hold the belt strap by one end, hanging down. Easy to get the strap on and off. Assuming each bulldog clip is about 1/2 inch wide then you can get about 24 straps hanging to the linear foot.

@Professor Well. thank you for finding that and sharing it

I do just about the same as LatigoAmigo but I use tray. Actually a stainless steel oven tray. I should point out that I thin my dye, about 2 water to 1 dye, or 1 water to 1 dye. ~ I'm not very consistent I wet the leather, not too much, before placing it in the dye. As you're doing straps, they can be loosely coiled and put into a small bucket or large jar of diluted dye.

naff = not good at all. or very poor

Thats the main reason I say to make the rubber negative first. I recently spilt some moulding resin on a well sealed and waxed scrap piece of leather. The resin stuck to the leather like it was part of it.

Dip dye. Not individual straps, but do a piece wide enough to cut several from, say 6 inches wide. Dip dye and let soak, then afterwards cut into 3/4" strips

I would 1. apply plenty of wax to the tooling 2.build a dam around it using something like blue-tac 3. pour in a moulding silicon rubber 4 . this will give a negative of the tooling but is too soft to use 5. Make a moulding rubber copy of the negative, this should look the same as the original tooling 6. use that second rubber copy to make a resin negative of the tooling. Use polyurethane moulding resin. Make it about 20 to 25 mm thick with some glass-fiber, aka fibreglass, in through the resin

The latest Copydex I've bought has no smell at all. I miss that fishy smell ml for ml Copydex has got really expensive

Although this guide is aimed at what is the current tool versus an old tool which has maybe been discontinued it does show the tool pattern and its number. Other makers usually follow these same numbers https://www.leathercraftlibrary.com/product/1416/craftool-conversion-chart

That looks most excellent

just a question first - is this style you are looking for? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Leather-Craft-Skiving-Sharp-Handle-Knife-Leathercraft-Handwork-DIY-Tool-New/283394645450?hash=item41fba31dca:g:~jAAAOSwBz1cc0LX

a. the brass cut matches my drawings exactly in all aspects b. wet stamped using a Tandy press, of 1.25 ton

Here are a couple of stamps. I had to look through my stamps to find which ones to show you as examples 1. Made in U.K. Width is 30mm, the height of the upper case letters is 4mm. I chose the font, sent it as a jpeg and I got back what I wanted 2. This one is chosen to show the fineness of their cutting. Overall width is 50mm 2a. a close up of the car's grill area to show you the fine lines

I got my materials mixed up. The nylon goes into the knife and into a hole in the delrin. The delrin is carved to the profile. tbh I've only used these a couple of times as I don't do hardly any tooling or swivel knife work 1. this has one straight cliff edge and a slope to bevel 2. this has a centre bar, about 1 mm high by 1.5 mm wide and a slope on each side to bevel both sides of a line B. The two together so you can see how I made them. Others could make them far better using a lathe and power tools but I don't have those things so I need to do it by hand With these materials I can make any profile which suits me

I asked Joanna about this a couple of years ago. Its been going on for years now Its a computer thing. As the computer server regularly updates it 'renews' these peoples profiles. PS. don't trust that 'last visited' date. Mine says I've not been on here since January 8th !