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try and get an older tool The newer ones are very smooth and have heavy plating which reduces it further

Superb. Thats a cracker

Looks good

My dies, the valet tray and others, cuts stitching holes. They cut slots. They do not remove any leather. The holes JLS is talking about and remembers are great big holes, about 2mm and remove leather. I would get a die which punches the sewing hole as slot

I just cut a 5.25 x 5.25 inch valet tray out of 1.8mm chrome tan and it cut easily, it even went through the cardboard that I was using as a backing

I have the more expensive press, the model before this one but basically the same; https://www.tandyleather.world/collections/machines/products/tandypro-r-hand-press 1. I got it in a Tandy sale several years ago, and 2. I had some money come in otherwise I'd not have bought it but I'm glad I did. I like it a lot. I use it all the time. dunno what I'd do without it. I use it for 3D/letter stamping and as a clicker press. Next is to sort it for sewing hole punching One thing about it though; there is a 'pad' between the arm and the ram and this wears down. They don't tell you about it and you cant buy replacements. I bought a bar of delrin and cut enough discs to last me a few years

Simple answer is Yes. My 1.25T Tandy press will cut that, but I'm restricted on the area size and I have to move the leather/die around to do it in stages

I remember reading this many years ago At inquest. Lawyer to doctor; 'Did you perform the autopsy?' Doctor; 'yes' Lawyer; 'And was Mr ... dead at this time?' Doctor; 'I usually don't do autopsies on living subjects'

Two old men sitting on a park bench when an old lady streaked past 'What was that Mavis was wearing' 'I dunno, but it needed ironing'

Nothing weird about putting metal rods in. And nothing new about it either. Its been done before and some of the top quality bags in the past used them Use aluminium rods rather than steel. You could even use square cut rods. Or wood boards, they could help take the handles on the top

07.50, I think its yer man wot was in Ghostbusters, Dan Aykroyd ?

See who the ambulance driver is?

Scissors, yes, cutting mat, yes, band-aids, yes, lots A metal ruler, or several, I have 10 inch, 12 in, 24 in, 36 in, for cutting against Heavy duty knife with changeable blades - I think in US they are called 'box cutters' Ordinary blades, but I also like this hook blade for roughing out;

Welcome That looks just fine

Has anyone else noticed that chrome tan leather dulls blade fast? I put a new blade in my strap cutter and used it to cut 2.2ml chrome tan. I got 6 straps 75cm long and 2/3 of 7th and the blade was dull wouldn't no more

No. Less than they paid for it. We had the paper records up to about 15 years ago

Let me tell you a tale of 'ground oil' When my grand parents immigrated to the US they bought land in Indiana under the 'Homestead Act'. They intended to have a stud farm, them being horse raisers in Bohemia. But the horses didn't thrive. They were being poisoned by the grass. The land was kinda marshy in places. So after several years of trying they sold up and moved to Chicago. The chap who bought their land was called Rockefeller and he bought other land in the area. It was semi-crude oil bubbling up through the ground. That land became Indiana's largest oil and gas producer

When I was in business I was always being threatened to be sued. My solicitor advised me; own nothing. I rent my apartment, my car is loaned from my son etc. I have no insurance. If someone threatens to sue me I say go ahead but you'll get nowt. They soon drop the case

Who owns the driveway? It sounds too big to be for a single house. Is it a communal driveway serving a number of apartments?

Some leather and horn lanterns might still be around. They were used in mines up to the first half of the 20th century (to about 1945) But, not crude as crude, almost refined, the Romans and Greeks used it. Its a constituent of 'Greek Fire'

In legal theory, yes Unless you are 'invited' in. You are 'invited' in to trade by open doors and posters offering items for sale

Yes. And in Eire/Ireland they will do just that if they don't want you on their property

No, I never took a photo of it What was super-interesting in the process was the oil used. Not the usual candidates such as olive oil but volatile 'ground' oil. I guess it was some form of mineral oil that came to the surface of the ground and could be collected. The window makers were a secretive guild in as much as the process was only known to the members and I've just remembered; the translucent leather was used to glaze lanterns up to about the first third of the 19th century ( 1800s). Horn was mainly used but for high quality lanterns, eg. on my lord's carriage

mmm, not sure if its 'new', or if they are using an ancient process In the middle-ages, aka medieval period, before glass was re-invented, they used to scrape veal hides super thin and oil them which made them translucent and the used them to cover windows. Allegedly they were translucent enough to let in a lot of soft light, but they were expensive. Everything was expensive back then. I used to have a piece which had been re-purposed as book page. My dottir has it now

No money was paid over so I've not lost any, but no sign of the items he said he posted. I'll wait a while yet. It may be coming by the slow-boat via China and Oz and will arrive in 8 to 10 months time. A chap in Oz sent me a book on early English pistols via the slow-boat, it took 6 weeks to arrive. I once had car parts sent 1/2 way round the world that arrived the same day - local time They were rear light units for my Caddy. They were sent by the breaker in Alaska at 06.00 by FedEx and arrived in my country at 08.00 the next day, which was actually 23.00 the same day in Alaska. Then it took another 2 weeks for the FedEx 'partner' courier to deliver to my house - but thats another story