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I just use a regular sewing awl. If you have a spare sewing awl you can round off the point

One thing we must remember is that these bricks & mortar shops have large overheads that need paid. Thus, a valet tray that I can make and sell would see me in good profit at £10 needs to be at least £40 in a B&M shop, because they have to pay for electricity, city taxes/rates, employees wages et cetera, which I don't have to So, whenever we see these expensive prices, divide by 4 or 5 and see if that item is worth that, or can we make it for that or less

imo I think you'd be better off making a fresh one. I think you can do it in time given. Better to be a bit late with a good item than on time with one you're not really happy with

yes, your lace is as long as your main leather. But if you buy a 50m roll there are joins every 1.5m or 1.75m or so. Its been very professionally joined and the joins are hardly visible but they are there

I think you should invest in one of these lace cutters you can make any size of lace yourself, as you need it

Hand-made paper - might be made of rag, which is quite thick and tough. Try and get a sample piece to try out on. If it is rag, treat it like thin leather. Before sewing it up, pre-crease each page and the front cover, about 1/2 - 3/4 inch in from the edge I'd line up the pages with the covers and use flat lace to sew them together. Using the lace width at right-angle to edge

Interesting. When I was showing some simple items to one of my agents we discussed putting a person's name or initials on it. I would use the 3D letter stamps to do that so no big job. My agent came up with £5 [$6.25] just to have name or initials put on plus £1 [$1.25] for each letter, thus 'Fred' would be £5 + £4 = £9 [ $11.25] Yes, there is a big difference between the asking price and getting price

From recent discussions I've had; maybe about £20 here. But they are real cheapskates with deep pockets and short arms here

Acetone WILL harm the fibreglass resin. I use acetone to clean up tools and brushes. Acetone dissolves the resin. It will take stains off the top surface of fibreglass because it dissolves the resin surface I would manually strip off the white and put on new veg tan. Wet mould it to shape first, take off and dye and whilst still damp from the dye, put back on the bow so it dries and tightens down around the limb

That looks very most excellent If you have extra needle holes, mix some dye with some bees wax and press that into the hole

No offence to you Sergii but we must be careful. Sometimes we get 'spammers' who try to get money or goods out of us. gmail is one of the email sites these not nice people use. PM me your address and a list of items you need to get started again. I may be able to send some items but not everything Translated to Ukrainian [hopefully correctly] Без образи, Сергію, але треба бути обережними. Іноді ми отримуємо «спамерів», які намагаються отримати від нас гроші чи користь. gmail – це один із сайтів електронної пошти, якими користуються ці недобрі люди. Надішліть мені вашу адресу та список речей, які вам потрібні, щоб почати знову. Можливо, я зможу надіслати деякі елементи, але не всі

imo without a name cast or engraved on the metal it may not be absolutely for a sewing machine. It might be for a lathe or any sort of machine tool. A lot of factories ran machines on tables from underground or overhead power supplies. We used to gets lots of different tables like this in junk stores in and around Belfast in the early 1970s, They came from engineering and linen factories which were either shutting down or changing to self-motor machines

Are you still living in Ukraine or somewhere else? If this request is genuine I'll give you tools from my spare tools boxes

most excellent!

I think, no need to burnish the tips. If they are left slightly rough-ish it will help them merge into each other I'm not quite getting your problem Can you glue the ends of the inner piece together, put in just a couple of stitches and when this is set slip it over a jar, a glass or a can to hold it. Make it fit tight over the jar/glass/can. You can make your jar/glass/can larger by wrapping some duct tape around it. Then with the inner piece held tight you can apply the outer piece. Just glue one end and about 1'' first, get that aligned and let the glue set. Its easier to get that 1'' just right than try to getting it all aligned, then the rest will follow

afair mixing a good strong pure red with a little purple will get you crimson

I use old tees and other shirts as well. Make sure the material has been recently washed. When you cut it down, go over the edges with a ciggie lighter and burn any stray threads - but be careful not to set it totally alight!

The Oxblood dye I have, Fiebings afair, turns out pink, quite pink. I have Tandy Eco-flo dye Scarlet which is a very good red. You might be better starting with that

About 4 years ago I got a windfall of much ££. I decided to spend some of it by buying a load of stamps. Le Prevo had nearly all what I wanted, made by Ivan. Tandy had the same ones plus the others Le Prevo didn't have. [not discontinued, just oos ] Le Prevo's price was about £6 each, Tandy was about £10 each. I bought about 35 stamps from Le Prevo and about 10 from Tandy. The packaging was exactly the same just the name on the front of the label and on the rear label by the barcode was different I think also Ivan are happy to supply other outlets wholesale but Tandy is not. I used to buy some odd Tandy conchos from an ebay seller in England but he stopped selling them. He told me that Tandy was no longer supplying him as he wasn't a 'Tandy shop'

No, I'm referring back over 22 years; Ivan = Tandy = Ivan, both had the same items in their 'catalogue' at the same time, but at different prices I think Ivan was for the Far Eastern & Europe markets before Tandy put outlets there. Before Tandy had shops in England Ivan was the name for working hardware such as stamps and alphabet letter/number sets

'Ivan' is based in Taiwan All the hardware eg stamps, that I've bought from Tandy has been made in Taiwan Is Ivan/Taiwan actually Tandy? Is Tandy hardware made by Ivan and just relabelled? I get emails from both companies and when they are promoting something quite often its the same item using the same photo of it but prices are slightly different

Whatever spacing you want. The wider the lacing the wider the vertical spacing can be, which looks balanced. Large wide lace too close together looks cramped and thin lace too far apart looks unbalanced loose. eg 1/2 inch width can be from 1/2 inch to 1 inch apart But I'd say never go below 1/8 inch [3.18mm]

Thursday, Friday, two special holidays for celebrating Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee - 70 years of being the Queen Thursday and Friday so a lot of people can make it a 4 day long holiday with Saturday and Sunday added.

I ordered 100 of the 16mm KAM snaps in black. If I use just the heads to cover the bases of 15mm snaps, then I'll have 200 covers. For £4.99 delivered Delivery due soon but we have a couple of days holidays, tomorrow and Friday, no post so they might arrive Saturday

Most, if not all, the tools sold by Le Prevo are 'Ivan'