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This is my 5,000 posting! Can you believe that I waffle on so much? I made this sort-of pouch for a handled-magnifying glass a couple of weeks ago. Part of dottir's archy kit (I need practice!)

It can take a new built building up to to 2 or 2 1/2 years to stabilize with humidity/dampness in the material matching the surroundings Air dry all your goods and wrap them in seran wrap / clingfilm enclosing a packet or three of silica gel. Re-wrap and check each item every 3 months

The OP hasn't been back in 7 years to enlighten us on that

I'll be doing my next proper check this coming weekend

cut up onion counters any glue or paint smell. you don't smell the onion It an old painters trick; put cut up onion in a freshly painted room and soon you can't smell the paint nor do you smell the onion. a cut up onion placed in the fridge will rid it of odd smells

try putting it in a closed container with a cut up onion

I wouldn't attempt to cover those boxes but I'd use double-side sticky tape. I have sheets of double-sided sticky which stick stronger than any glue and it is water proof

That chap needs a heavier gauge belt. Its bending and twisting

Because its dye?

You can use sand paper to tidy-up the edges. I sometimes have to do that. The worse the edge the greater the grit. eg. a really bad edge needs 200 grit, a not to bad edge needs 600 grit dumb question; are you using the edger the right way up?

@CFons also; make sure they are in alignment

Is it veg tanned and how thick is it? Veg tan is usually always mouldable, and if not too thick

I use these to bevel my edges; They are sold on ebay as leather edge bevellers, BUT also as finger nail cuticle trimmers. You can also find them in the local shops in the beauty/nails section They are cheap; I buy them 10 for $5 but in the shops they are dearer. They are very sharp and take off the leather a thin string.

I bought a load of dem tings. Not used them yet. I may go back to using map pins and small blocks of cork

Try wetting the leather before dipping, and leave in the dye for longer

@SUP I only use my marble block for skiving on I found this piece in a builder's waste pile* ; it is 18cm long to the broken edge, 10cm wide and 3cm thick One thing I like about it, it has this bevel on one edge. Thats come in useful I also have this re-constituted granite slab. Approx 17.5cm square by 2cm thick. It was a kitchen work top thingy which I repurposed several years ago I've tried to get some thick marble or granite for a new bigger block but despite this country being being one of the largest exporters of granite I cannot get a piece. Local places (kitchen fitters, grave marker makers, et cetra) which use marble and granite use a thin veneer over concrete As I don't, or very rarely, do tooling on them I don't bed them down on anything * this piece started out much bigger. It was about 30 x 40 cm. I asked one of my son's mechanics to cut off 10cm. Being a furiner (Latvian) he did just that, but he didn't keep both pieces as I'd asked. He disposed of the 30cm square. Not just disposed of it, but took a hammer to it and broke it up into gravel sized bits! Then he handed me this 10cm piece, 'there you are, why you not want the big piece?'

I don't use tokonol so I'm not affected by any shortage What do you use it for? and why? I just use a wax mixture for burnishing

In WW2 Winston Churchill is supposed to have directed a sea convoy of ships carrying tea and tobacco to special protection. The Admiralty told him that if they did it meant removing ships protecting a convoy of tanks and other munitions. Churchill is supposed to have said 'the British worker cannot carry on without his tea and cigarettes but he can without tanks'

I used to use a piece of concrete paving slab but I changed to a piece of marble I found because I found a skiver just glides along the polished surface of the marble. When I use a skiver to do an edge at an angle part of the skiver is on the marble and it just glides over it

Unfortunately, Yes - Thompson's Punjana, blended in Belfast https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/belfast-tea-producer-runs-out-of-tea-after-red-sea-supply-hit/a1977796519.html The End is Nigh! The sky is falling! PS. We may have to arrange to send you 'aid packages' of tea,

Last month I bought one of those bags of 440 tea bags. I'm set for another few days yet. Local company thats blends a range of popular teas has already run out of tea. Their stock is on a ship coming Round the Horn* * Round the Horn, old BBC Radio comedy show

Now there's going to be a 'run' on Tokonole. PPL will be buying stocks of it as an investment opportunity, there will be a black-market for it, with dodgy traders supplying 'cut' Tokonole at inflated prices . . . . . .

I used LCD Saddle Tan oil dye then Eco-flo Dark Brown antique

I'm putting together some items for no.1 dottir's archaeology kit I'm way out of practice. The stitching on this is terra-buble but here it is anyway And with what goes in it It doesn't look so very bad in the hand This started out 'a bit of leather folded over . . . ' and it got more elaborate as time went on Next are some tool rolls for small scrapers and brushes, and a case for a magnifying glass