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The others have said it; very nice. May it reach a good high price it the auction

I preferred the old theme look, it was unique. Now the look is like all the other websites on www, it is cold and clinical. I preferred the adverts at the top of the page. Having them dispersed through the messages its hard to tell which adverts should remain and which are 'pop-ups' that need deleted. I'll not use an advert blocker as the website needs those adverts showing fro revenue My thanks also to Joanna for keeping things going and working through this problem All this reminded me I'd not sent a donation for a while. Its done now, so fresh coffee can made on the stove

As the end of the month nears and my report looms, I never got the out-side pieces out again. We had a couple of very big storms, with winds blowing 75 -80 mph, gusting to 90 -95 mph. Only a couple of days between the storms which lasted about a week each. However, the pieces inside the car are ok see y'all later

Moi aussi I recently made me a bigger and deeper slab

Whatever way you attach the thread to the needle - wax it, and wax it every so often whilst you sew. Leather is very abrasive, especially to the weaker thread I have a few of these; I just pull the thread though it every so often. But you don't need one of them, just a block of bee's wax will do.

Twist the thread in the direction against its wind, this will open up the individual threads which make it up

If no-one close to you in England comes forward you could try asking Le Prevo in Newcastle How much leather do you want reduced?

So my old piece of beech should now be replaced with an expensive wotsit For that's how I usually use Ol' Faithful # 22

Use one of these; as well as polishing the prongs and regularly waxing them whilst in use

wotsitdo?

Its not an odd question. But where in the UK are you located?

I can't access any posting older than 3 hours ago and I can't edit my other post to add this

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Try either diluted lemon juice or Bicarb of Soda

Whist browsing the Royal Armouries website I spotted this book. So it could be a wolf It is what you want it to be I have no experience of coyotes. I don't know what they look like. I've only seen one on 'Road Runner' cartoons!

A builders merchants I used to buy timber from carried 4 different grades of MDF. Each grade was for where the builder wanted to use it. The most expensive (really really expensive) was a hard exterior weather-proof and the cheapest was a softer interior type used to line walls inside

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For rough-out cutting I use one of these hook blades. It doesn't cut into any board. With care it can be use to cut right on the pattern line For finish cutting I either use shears/scissors or a knife on a self-healing cutting mat

Idea; lightly tap down the stitches with a light smooth headed mallet

You can make a beveller for use in a swivel knife stock. I don't have lots of tools so I had to make each of these in two parts. A piece of nylon or delrin rod [or similar] shaped to be the beveller. You can make it any shape that you want. Just a swivel knife cut first then run one of these back and forth and you soon have a smooth bevel

Very gently hand wash. Don't soak it. Use animal friendly, ie dog, shampoo on the furry bit. A mild dish-washing liquid soap on the leather. Sponge wash with very warm, not hot, water. Sponge dry, turn inside-out to finish the drying by warm air

You've nowt to loose now; try cleaning it down with lacquer thinners, aka cellulose thinners. This may, probably, remove some of the colouring as well

Multiply the ounce size by 0.4 to get millimetre size, or divide mm by 0.4 to get ounces [per square foot] I use both to get an approximation of how much leather is going into a project; eg if all the pieces of 2.8mm leather weigh 12 oz then; 2.8mm = appox 7 oz leather, and 12 oz/7 oz = 1.7 sq ft

Very nicey and classy indeedy

I'll be doing an up-date report at the end of January In the meantime; I brought all the outside pieces in over late December to now as we had gale force winds nearly constantly, 40 to 60 mph wind with gusts up to 90 mph. I reckoned they'd just be blown away. Now I need to find where I put the pieces. But . . . but . . . I found the missing piece #4! In the front 'garden' of all places