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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

A 'former' is simply something in the shape of what you want to mould around instead of using the actual item. In this case, a wood block made to the shape of the shears

This is the Mark 2. Longer straps, two less of them and holes top and bottom. I left it with a couple of ladies last week. This week I'll find out how they got on with it

Happens even on expensive leather. I made this Navigator's Board and when I dyed it a lot of wee dots appeared. Bug bites It was covered in these, bottom left, but only showed up after dyeing