fredk

These are general guides. just to start with. As you progress you'll find your own way with thickness, type and its use

Too right they do. Over 21 years I've only lost a few needles at outside events.

Sometimes I hammer a nail pinch down into the centre, but even if I do or not, I wiggle a pair of fine electrical wire cutters between the leather and rivet head and cut the stem with the cutters

In my method there would be no exposed metal

Basically, billets are short straps sewn, or otherwise attached, to each end of the main belt. One carries the buckle and the other has the holes for the buckle tongue. When the billets are attached to the main belt they are usually set in by a few inches. For looks, billets are often narrower than the main belt. an example; Its a useful design to know. IF I was doing fancy gun-leather belts, I could/would make a fancy one-size-fits-all main belt but only attach billets to the ends for the final customer

I would; take two pieces of thin leather and glue & sew them together along the long edges and one short edge. Slide the 'pocket' over the clip. When its on, sew up the open end, then dunk the whole thing in water and then let it dry. After it is dry, dye & finish

Right now its more like Adam Ant's 'Stand and Deliver'

Essentially yes,, its not getting better but actually worse right now

At this point I would like to remind the collective that there are two 'sizes' put on clothing and belts. One is the true measure size and the other is the 'vanity' measure. Usually the two 'sizes' are not on the item at the same time. The 'vanity' measure number is less than the true measure, sometimes by just a little and sometimes by a lot eg. I had a chap who insisted he was a 36 inch waist. I knew he was not just by looking. He brought me his then current belt, it was marked 36 - no inches, or cm, nowt. My tape measure proved he was a 44 inch waist. The two can be differentiated by, the true measure has the number followed by; inches, " or cm. The vanity size is just a number

What size needles do you want? I probably have enough to send you some to get you started. FOC

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