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You should resist the temptation to wiggle and tilt the irons to get them out. I used to do that. But the wiggling around distorts the holes and can make the stitches look wonky

Most times I use a kitchen cutting board from Ikea, Cost me £1.50. I also made a big wax block for use with small and/or delicate items. Melted candle wax into a big aluminium oven tray. After it gets a lot of marks the surface is re-melted and when hard its as good as new When I do a lot of bigger hole punching I use a block of wood blocks glued together ends up

Good. A too perfect chess board looks factory made. Yours is personal. Enjoy playing chess or checkers on it and may you not lose too many games,

Use one of these to hold the leather down; I made this one out of a scrap piece of clear acrylic plastic. You van buy all different designs now, including plastic and metal ones with a wee handle on

Its simple to make your card wallet RFID (Radio Frequency IDentity) protected. Glue into the pockets, or use double sided sticky tape, pieces of kitchen aluminium foil. A piece on the inside of each of the outer covers will do. For best practice the pieces of aluminium foil should be at least the same size as the cards, about 8cm by 5.5cm

Another decent idea, thank you

I've seen some people paying a bill from as far away as 30cm from the machine, but usually max distance I see is about 15cm. Your card may have been 'cloned' as you paid your bill If you use your card regularly on certain things and only in certain areas have a word with the fraud department of credit card. They can take the details and will block any payments which are not normal. If your own purchase is blocked a phone call or text to or from the fraud dept soon sorts it. In the past I've had to inform the fraud dept that I was going to be in a certain area of England making big purchases but I still had to get a phone call on some to clear them On cloning; a person not directly attached to the legion could have put the cloner on the card reader. The cloner can send the info to the dishonest person miles away. We had cases here 18 months ago. Several ATMs had cloners attached. They sent the info to a gang in Dublin, over 100 miles away from the ATMs

Possibly easier to control with hand stitching. Soak a good sealer in and around the sewing holes and use about 3 or 4 times the length of thread actually needed. By the time the tail of the thread is coming through the rub off should or may be just on the needle end

Maybe not, They were made of sheeps skin, sheep intestines or fish skin. Certain ones used a captive mouse inside (Honestly)

interesting idea

Grape pickers? they used to use short curved blade knives as well. But I think the curve on their blades was much more pronounced with the point curving towards the cutting edge

Thanks again peeps. Plenty of ideas to ponder over But I kinda like this one;

Old style fish filleting knives are long and thin, about 6 inches long blade and 3/4 to 1 inch at the widest and with a pronounced curve This sort of shape, which would fit in your carrier easily They blunt fairly speedily when gutting a lot of fish so if you have a boat load to do you'd want a few sharpened knives handy

I can't think of or suggestion anything else so I'd support the idea of a knife sheath. For a working person who needs a number of knives handy, like a fish preparer, beheading and gutting fish. Those rivets remind me of European Spanish or Portuguese; they like to use a lot of those rivets, on leather and woodwork

Thanks for the ideas. I'd like to avoid use of plastic or cardboard tubes

I've actually used (new clean) ones for that. Not really hotdogs, but barbied sausages.

I'm still making a quiver for #1 favourite dottir. On our irregular recent phone conversation she just happened to mention that her present quiver had partitions to make 3 sections for her arrows. She says she likes this and would like it in her new quiver Any suggestions on how to make 3 or even 4 sections? I'm using a special piece of embossed leather and was going to do just a basic folded over bag type. I have this leather cut to size and shape but now opened up. Other than the join of the two edges to close it and at its mouth I cant sew anywhere else. I was thinking; two sort of tubes of leather sewn to one larger piece to enclose them, then this larger piece glued to the inside of the special leather and then just sewn at the mouth of the quiver, with maybe some sort of re-enforcement around the opening overlapping the inner and outer leather Any other ideas or suggestions?

ramble away peeps

I bought a couple of these today Dunno what I'm going to with them tho

Thanks, I'll look into that

oh, thanks, I didn't know it was a double flap in that manner I've noticed that the retaining strap can be of two ways; stud low and strap down to it, or stud high and the strap goes up to it

Thanks, it all helps

Thanks chaps Due to UK laws I can't have the pistol at home so I think I'll draw around it, the way AS shows in his making holsters book, and photo it. Maybe make a wood copy in shape as you suggest I've seen the photos on t'ineret. I'll print some of them off. The client insists that the holster has to have the German eagle and swastika on it but I've not seen a photo of an original with that on

I have several types of blade sharpeners. On dies I mostly use a small slip stone and for small places that can't reach I use a telescopic fish hook sharpener