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I've re-oiled all the pieces and put them back in the car. at approx 11.00 10/22 I noticed that the backs of all the pieces have returned to very nearly the original leather colour but the fronts were still dark. Except for #7 (Vaseline), both sides were actually a bit lighter than the test control piece

10/22 09.30 - up date All pieces - no fungus #2 has the faintest smell of oil (Rapeseed cooking oil) All other pieces smell faintly 'Leather' Pieces #3 (lard) and #4 (NFO Compound) are much more flexible than all the other pieces which are all about the same, a little bit stiffer than Control Piece #2 which is in my leatherwork room Night time temperatures inside the car dropped to about 5.6*, We have had a bad stormy weather the last week which gave very heavy overcast and cold days. Day time temperatures in the car was about a max of 7.6 to 8* Later today I'm going to give all pieces another dosing of their oils But so far it looks like all the oils or fats are fine with NFO Compound and Lard (pork fat) winning

Try getting magnets rated 50 or 51. They are the strongest. You can also add magnets to each other to increase the strength, BUT you can only stack a maximum of 10, thereafter you have a diminishing effect, each magnet after the 10 reduces the strength Your Thing is just great If you were to do this again, or if I was to do it, I'd reduce the size of the sewing holes and use finer thread just in red, and hide slim bar magnets under the finger nails

Adding the wire was very clever,

'Thing' looks good. It looks like it wont need painting for Caucasian flesh

You have both made Supply both and let the client choose

I agree, a panel beater's dolly would do the job. If you can, search for very old panel beaters dollies. Some of the old ones had a bar for fitting into the hole on anvils. I had a great early 20th C. set of dollies'; about 15 different shapes, in a lovely fitted wood box, but only one shaft bar. The dollies were interchangeable to the bar. Alas, stolen along time ago

Why don't WE do it? and get it set as a 'sticky' as another resource of info Info off the tins and our practical experience Start a new thread maybe and address the questions asked? PS, @Ornyal Get some Evo-stik adhesive cleaning fluid, It acts as thinner on neoprene glues. If the glue has not dried out too much it will bring it back to usefulness

Excellento

Excellent

@Sheilajeanne ah, there you are misunderstanding.There is Tea and there is Tea. Tea at 4pm is tea, oodles of it, served with light sandwiches or scones or tea-cakes and rarely crumpets, or strumpets for some, but never ever coffee. Then there is Tea, from about 5pm, the early evening meal, followed by dessert and then followed by tea Tea at 4pm is over by 4.20, 4.30 at the latest. Tea after 5pm lasts until 7pm at the latest, after that it starts to become Supper. Dinner is at mid-day-ish. Its a main meal whereas Lunch is at mi-day-ish but a light meal such as sandwiches, burgers et cetera When I was in RAF at one station the Station C.O. was a traditional English officer. Orders were all work stopped at 4pm for Tea. Everyone on the station stopped working for a 15- 20 minutes Tea. We had volunteers called NAAFI who had Tea vans and they arrived outside the building I worked in at about 3.55, set up and tea & buttered scones were ready at 4pm. A tea & scone cost 6d in old money, then 2 1/2p in the new money. (about 1c US) A nominal charge. And tea top-ups were free. Tea, scone and a ciggie at 4pm hth

2 weeks on and there are no nasties happening to my test pieces. Only, they're drying out. I think, this weekend, end of week 3, I'm going to give each another dose of their oils

Excellent I've done a piece with vaseline. It went into my special car at 07.00 today Temperatures inside my special car range from 7.6* during the night to a high of 25.8* on a sunny day. On overcast days its about 20.4*

Stack with either clean white paper or quality brown wrapping paper in between each piece. Place stack in a flat plastic box which has a snap on lid

Would you trim the belt a wee bit or put a keeper on for that end thats sticking out? The belt looks balanced but I can't help but think that bit sticking out might catch on things on the worktop

Tandy sells, or sold, a wee handy device to help hold the blade whilst sharpening https://tandyleather.com/products/craftool-keen-edge-sharpener

very clever. Now Henry needs a holster for his measuring spoon

I used to have a 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass built for Canada. It had a 5L diesel engine, but the fuel instructions on it said not to use diesel fuel but, afair, to use Number 2 home heating oil. And the engine and auto gear box had built in heaters. Plug a cable into the mains supply and the heaters kept the oils and water at working temperature. I used the system a few times. Just had to remember to unplug and coil up the short engine bay cable before driving off

@SUP another idea, cos I spotted it in the shops yesterday; at this time of year, ie pre-Halloween, the shops, especially the discount shops are selling cheap sets of face/body paints. I saw sets that looked like dried water-soluble cubes of colour, like wot we used at school, but I also saw sets of tube paints. All sets had various 'flesh' and 'blood' colours. The tube set I looked at had a good selection of paints, a mixing palette and brushes for £6

I'm not very good at keeping or even getting my edgers sharp. So I use these and dispose of them when they get too blunt. I buy them in the 10s for about under £3. I found you/me will have to pay more for 'leather edgers' than for the same tool as cuticle trimmers in the nail art / beauty section of ebay. I use them on thicknesses from about 3oz (1.2mm) and upwards. They take off from the corner edge a very nicely cut thin strip. On thick leather a second run around the corner rounds the edge a bit more

Anyone testing Vaseline? That might be my mystery #7

My actual supplier info would be of no use to you except to say; look to suppliers of sail boats and equipment. I got my l-a-d from a sail boat equipment supplier. Another type of business to ask is a supplier of parts to antique / vintage / classic cars

Weather here right now is crazy; spring / summer daytime temperatures. Very little wind, clear skies. But at night its getting chilly. I still have my main window wide open, day & night, to keep the temp in my apartment down to a livable 19* or 20* I only have a very large planter outside my apartment. All the flowers should have shut down for winter coming but over the last 7 -10 days they've all grown and are flowering like its summer If we ever get snow here if we get as much as 1 inch the whole country goes into chaos! main roads get closed, buses stop running, airports gets closed down. You'd think they'd know by now, winter = some snow, maybe, get snow plough road gritters out before it comes not 3 or 4 days after

When I get a round tuit and finish making a certain leather hat, the pattern bought from dieselpunk, I think spraying some dye on it might help with this look

Two hands up and waving ~~ Me! But it can be worser cos I deliberately buy seconds of tools and stuff, for me its #3 and #4 of it. I have a medium sized tool box half-filled with those 'spares' Here we call it TMB, Too Many Birthdays Not leatherwork; I build plastic models. A couple of months ago I put into a box about 8 models to build before November, for a big show in England. That box, about 35cm x 35cm x 45cm, has disappeared. I've had to buy some replacement models