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I would use upholstery grade chrome tan leather. Mainly because I have tons of it. The upholstery leather is very flexible and would fall nicely. Mine is about 1.5 mm thick so it would be heat resistant. In fact I made a part-time blacksmith a waist length apron out of it and it served him well

Why are you home so late? A guy down the pub lost a $100 note Were you helping him look for it? No, I was standing on it

You can reduce the tack of any tape by putting in on your jeans first then pulling it off. The more times you do this the tack gets weaker each time

Double sided sticky tape or rubber glue?

Not me I couldn't fit it in one photo. Not that its large but the different areas

and Dusty covered Downtown

On a different thread about tools wanted I said I wanted a tool to wind Boss bobbins. I started to think as I wrote. A fixed spool fishing reel could/might be adapted I bought a small fishing reel It will work but, a big but, the fishing reel spool has to match the Boss bobbin. On this one its only half size so would only wind the thread in the middle of the Boss bobbin When I get the chance I'll search out a larger reel. A lot of fishing/angling shops have closed up here recently. Some only sell on-line now

Saved, in case of need

Excellent

I'm kinda busy the next few days but I'll devote time to it later in the week

I got rid of all my Dusty Springfield CDs Now I just don't know what to do with my shelf I just might go Downtown

Your PJ is different to my vaseline. The leather absorbed the vaseline I'll do some more tests later

PJM1 is looking promising What oil?

Yes and use plenty. Tie one end of the thread to something and, holding the other end, pull it tight, run your wax up and down the thread

So for a hat measure round the crown on the inside

Simple as can be; measure, in cm, around the head. just about 1 to 1.5 cm above the ears and eyebrows. For a small head this will be about 54 to 56 cm, for a medium head about 56 to 57 cm and for a large nut about 58 to 60 cm Here is a conversion chart to go back to the old hat sizes https://www.hatsandcaps.co.uk/pages/hat-size-guide

Could you not finish it and sell it?

afaik the man-made threads can be affected by UV light rays but linen is not. Linen goes slack when it gets wet, this may be beneficial in that leather swells when wet, so the linen thread wont cut into the leather whereas the man-made thread will Also its more 'traditional' so that be important to some people I have a queue building up of around 400 steering wheels to recover. A lot of them have the threads broken or weakened due to UV light and not wear & tear

Nice So will I once this moves up to the 'I got to really, really, really finish . . . ' pile. At the mo its only in the ' . . .really finish. . . 'pile

One thin coat will seal but not be heavy enuf to crack You can 'Mop and Glo' Its meant for wood floors but its a thin acrylic varnish. I use a local version of it regularly, Others on here also use it

Have you tried a coating of varnish?

This is one, I bought it, its only cut out as yet

Main question Where are you based? This is an International Forum and we have members all over the world PS. I don't think Guests can receive or send PMs

Inches, foot and yard are interesting Edward 1st was regulating measurements. On your fingers the first section, from knuckle to the first joint, was called a hinch. Eddy ruled that the hinch of his finger was the standard measurement to be used. And 12 hinches was the length of his foot, thus it was the be the standard. To be used during his lifetime. The h was soon dropped as it was a nearly silent letter. You'll find your hinch more or less equal to 1 inch btw when the French used inches, their inch was about 1.25 inches, longer. So when they say Napoleon was short at 56 inches tall thats French inches which is actually 70 inches which is 5 ft 10, not short at all (proven) You often see the medieval longbow arrow called cloth-yard shaft long. Edward 1st was constantly at war. When he took up using Welsh long bow archers he found there was great variation in the length of supplied arrows. The width of the standard weaving loom at the time worked out at 34 to 37 inches wide. In setting his standards the looms were to be 36 inches wide, thus it was ruled the supplied arrow shafts were to be no less than the width of a cloth loom. Commercial weavers worked together in a weaving yard. As usual everything got contracted and simplified Next lesson will be . . . .