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au contraire; last December I saved about £300 on buying a stock of leather from the US rather than the UK

I say, cut the thread back by about 2 inches each side of the bad part and sew again. Only this time go manual. Watch carefully and try to get the needle into the same holes. Over lap the new onto the old by about 1 inch

I guess that after nearly 2 months the OP doesn't want to either show us any pictures nor engage with us uns anymore

What purpose does it serve having the roller on the top? To me, I'd think the roller should be under the main frame ?

Cut the grooves really deep so the groover sits well down into the leather. Then all the surfaces around the hole will be getting rouged. Hold the groover at the same angle you would for cutting

Cut some grooves across a thick piece of v-t. Rub some rouge of different grades into each groove. Then push the groover in each groove, working from the coarsest rouge to the finest.

I should have added; that is for the small pieces. Pieces which could make light weight cheap shoulder bags and such. I have two, [ 2 ], plastic boxes, each 80 litre size [we measure plastic boxes by the litre sizing, but they are about 24 inches high by 14 inches front to back and about 20 inches across] stuffed full of the bigger pieces. One piece was so big I made a tabard from it just by cutting a hole to go over the head and adding straps & buckles to the sides! Note down the things you'd like to make. Then browse around and look at things already made and at patterns. Things can be made to suit your leather I'd advise you to NOT cut that leather down just for storage. You never know that when you are making something that you can cut a piece out of a larger piece, which you have. Get a good memory, not that I have, and try to remember what you have. Get used to searching thru your supply for that piece that you can use Nice thing about leather is you can make something out of pieces and if its done tidily it will look good. eg a shoulder bag; 9 x 7 inches = a front panel, a back panel, a flap and gussets. Front panel, back panel both about 10 x 8 inches, flap about 6 x 8 inches, gusset, about 23inches long by ? inches, in one piece, or two or three pieces joined

Its not the tote bag or wallet per se, with common items its the presentation of the item. If Maker A makes a common style wallet and adds gold fittings to it and Maker B does the same pattern of wallet and puts gold or silver fittings on it which resembles Maker A's fittings that can be seen as copying. But if Maker B makes the same common style of wallet and puts different gold fittings on it its not a direct copy PS; a boast - when I published my own magazines I was very well informed on copyrights laws as they were around the world. I was also part of the group which re-wrote the UK Copyrights law back in 1988

years ago when I got a load of 'scrap' upholstery leather, about 50kg of it I laid out some pieces of card; A3, A4 & A5. I got several plastic boxes which have lids. I laid each piece of leather onto each piece of card. If it was close to or bigger that the A3 card it went into one box, if it was about A4 size it went into another box, same for the A5 size pieces. Any pieces which seemed about less than half the A5 went into another box

ya wanna bet? not directly, but indirectly Its been revealed in the last few days that eastern europeans are grooming children as young as 3 years old and sending them as 'refugees' to the UK for the illegal child sex trade The child is sent to UK. Under World Refugee Laws unaccompanied children must be accepted. No sooner than the child is known to be in the UK a 'relative' shows up to claim guardianship of the child The child is not at fault in this vile business. They are being used by evil people. And those people are undermining the morals of our societies

Have you tried a wing divider?

Whist you lot were adopting her catch-phrase we wuz adopting this one

mmm, we wuz in contact last June about this Still looking?

PM on its way, Soon, as soon as I gather the details

Quite the opposite in N.I. Mace and pepper spray are illegal but wasp spray is not. Two real cases, years apart; a woman was assaulted, she used a household cleaner spray on her attacker, she had it her shopping. She was commended for quick thinking. Another woman assaulted used pepper spray on her attacker. She was charged for having the pepper spray illegally. btw, in both cases the attacker was charged over the attack.

There are tribes in Papua New Guinea who have given up killing each in raids for brides. The two tribes meet on a 'battle field' and one side 'attacks' first using bamboo sticks. The attacker has to tap the woman's defenders on the shoulder. If he wins he gets his bride. But the choice of bride has been arranged by the tribes' elders beforehand. Its all rather civilised. They call the bamboo stick a coupe stick as well.

Frodo posted something earlier and deleted it A sort of sap, aka a cosh, was used by the Normans at the Battle of Hastings [1066]. They can be seen on the Bayeux Tapestry [approx 1070s] The thing is always over-looked, unless you know its there. The Romans, [500 BC to 500 AD] certainly used 'saps' in battle In early Medieval times a weighted leather bag attached to a wood handle was used by Churchmen who went into battle. Churchmen were not forbidden in killing but they could not shed blood, so the swingy sap was useful. The only time I ever used a weighted 'weapon' was when I was a postman. A lead bar wrapped in newspaper. To 'gently' tap certain dogs on the snout or head if they attacked me. The owners thought I was using a non-harmful newspaper, but the dogs knew and learnt differently

I don't have any photos of the insides of the 'expensive' one Here are photos of the inside of a 'half-way' one. Larger than the other two. They take a small A6 size [closed size, about 4.5 inches wide x 6 inches high] notebook or diary, this one is for A5 sized [about 6 inches wide by 8.5 inches high] books Inside front; Inside rear; This one is closed by a piece of elastic going around the front. The girl didn't want the pen type closure Again, just glued together, no sewing. Used a thick chrome tan on this one. Its was plenty stiff. For the slit pockets, I cut the slot and glued on the back of the piece some very thin pig skin leather. I glued that just around the edges, so a small ruler or very small note book, or a credit card can be slipped in On this cream one the pen holder goes through a slit and is just glued to the back of the flap piece

No, it should be more like toothpaste

There is no way that those pieces of leather are 10 ounce!! 10 oz = 4mm. What he is sewing is closer to 2 to 2.5mm or 5 ounce However, the last time I used my 99 was just to punch holes along the edge of a wallet. Total thickness was nearly 3mm, or about 7oz. But punching holes and sewing are different poodles

No, I do not think you will be able to turn it . . . . unless you totally soak the leather with water

I bought my 99 just for putting holes and sometimes thread through 1mm leather. I'll not say 'sew' as the job isn't actually sewing The main reason it was chosen was for the non-stop stitch spacing, ie variable spacing without 'stops' at different settings

frayed knot, never took photos of them. I gotta make a few bags soon. Maybe I'll take photos as I do

I do one style of book cover. One is a cheapie made in upholstery grade leather and is just glued together, for the other I use 2.5mm [afair] 'belting' leather. That one is much stiffer but not unduly so The cheapie, the leather is very soft and pliable. It relies on the stiffness of the book covers; [the same book cover, its the camera exposure which makes it look different] The 'expensive' one, same basic pattern as the cheapie but a bit different with pockets in the front & rear flaps and I use a pen to 'lock' it Absolutely no problems with this one opening and closing. No self-closing, no cracking or wrinkling of the spine/bendy bit I think it comes down to your choice of leather and the 'temper' it has. I choose my leather for a project according to which leather will work best without me having to fight it

Trilby = looks like a fedora but with narrower brim and the turned up rear of the brim and slopey look to the crown If you have to adapt a fedora pattern; just reduce the width of the brim, [down to about 2 or 2.5 inches ], and wire the edge so you can turn it up at the rear. Narrow the top of the Crown piece and reduce the size of the Crown former, this will give the crown that sloped inwards look