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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

Then there is this set, from 20mm to 50mm, 7 pieces, usually less than £10, Can be used wit a press or a mallet. I have three sets of these. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315979279210?_skw=7x+DIY+Leather+Punchers+Craft+Cutter+Mold+Die+Round+Hole+Punching+Tools+Kit&itmmeta=01JH6X1EFRZV6FQFEDP8E4H4N0&hash=item4991d52b6a:g:HS0AAOSwWttnPaVE&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAABIHoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKmPVtfR0YsX0%2Bpz0o6ncUHPgCClkmP1vVdaJOl4FoQUOF2A4OFxHxm5c1edWVp35xCxz9XcBtjBu2tanqTd5Ew%2FtaVycWi878i8F6UEGe5SJG66zFY%2FACdTH1fWPW8uYV92kt6kLYwW%2Bzdidt7B%2BraN8pTTeJno0iwQtiI9%2F1GrZgFMmMAHXUKEjcnot5qV1xEaEDzCSdKw729bKSdC4gQx5TqfEUchrZeN5gRPfCVjOYMVybV7qK%2B5NRWk0ZHLjdAhAubnBQ9AOfW6fDZh33dYT179B96iNdx%2BjVLjL5vFe7Jvtk0qeOnfzKXrrBbRnnh63xmas3zB9Cwd6OaHnpEeo5sJwWaamIMzPHX3rCd%2FfQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABFBM_ueF3Yll

I would say to look for old second-hand Gasket punches. They go up to at least 3"

Make that a 5 count

Its hard dealing with Amazon when things go wrong. In my case, a year ago, I ended up with a free 3D printing scanner (£160 approx)

This is true Doubtful. I never had it happen or come close to happening. A groove a maximum of 0.5mm deep in 4 or 5mm leather is hardly significant. Although I don't do saddlery I once made and fixed medieval style shoes and I always grooved for the stitching IMO buy a good groover

Happy New Year to all my friends on Leatherworker.net And even to those who may not be my friends May 2025 be a better year for all of us

Over Christmas I had some of that German spiced cake 'Stollen?' Certainly not! I paid for it ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A farmer was encouraged to buy one of a new breed of farm dogs. He was told it was well behaved and a good worker On the first day the farmer got out of bed late, at 8.30. When he came down the stairs he found the dog asleep in front of the fire. He kicked the dog awake with a 'huh, so much for hard working!' To which the dog replied ' I say, there's no need for that. This morning I was up early and patrolling round the farm. I came across three rustlers in the lower fields and I saw them off, with a bite or two out of their bottoms. I then repaired the fence in the lower paddock, then I re-hung the gate to the hen run and then I rounded up the sheep and put 100 in the trailer for you' '100 sheep?, but I only have 94' 'I just told you, I rounded them up'

Whilst I found that my 15K would put a #16 needle through 1.5 -2mm upholstery grade chrome tan it could not advance it. I had to get a 'roller' foot attachment

Very Nice

Pre-nuclear age metal is highly desirable. At the time scrap iron was very valuable. The bridge was from the 19th century. It served only about 10 homes on one side of the river. A gang dismantled it and took it away. Within 1/2 hour of that area you can be in another country - untouchable to the law. The local police saw it happening but the gang were wearing hi-viz jackets, had signs erected, powerful work lights on as it was night time. Everything indicated that it was on the level. So police ignored it.

Here the tax on plastic bags is allegedly used for 'green' or environment projects such as tree planting. But we, the public we, see very little of its supposed beneficial use so I suspect it goes into the general government coffers But it has reduced the use of the flimsy thin plastic bags by about 95%. We no longer see lots of them hung up in trees or bushes at the road side, and fewer being eaten by cattle and sheep