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I can't say what affect it has on leather. But experience is of photos, prints, posters and print-ready artwork being bleached out by the chlorine gassing out of the pipes we stored them in. We used 4 inch diameter waste water pipes to store the above things in a roll. After a few months when we retrieved some items we found them bleached out, progressively from outer to inner. I took the items to a man I knew who worked as a conservator in the national museum. Without telling him, he pronounced that they'd been bleached by chlorine gas. Then the discussion when into detail. Later I took him a piece of pipe and he was able to have the amount of gas coming off measured. Not enough to worry about, but enough to bleach over time. One of my bro-in-law worked for the N.I. Water Board and he told me that they knew of this and certain PVC pipes were only used for waste water and PVC-free pipes used for taking water to a place Later, I had to totally changed my photo negs and slides storage system as the PVC storage pages and boxes were gassing off as well. I had to change to 'museum quality' PVC- free storage.

I'll throw in a late follow-up. Last year my son met up with the board's owners at one of our club events. He was told to pass on a message; that my board is 'world rally winner' board now. The couple had used it in some world vintage car rally which they had won. I patiently await orders to come flooding in from around the world from vintage car rallyists -

The film had three names. 1. The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, 2. Dr. Syn and 3. Dr. Syn, the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

If you're for using PVC pipes, be careful what you use. PVC can give off or leech chlorides onto and into what you have in contact with it. This is not theory but knowledge thru actual use. Use PVC water pipes meant for carrying water into a house, but do not use the pipes for waste water

Gotchya, I understand

Just a slight change to the message on the Le Prevo website Stu is retiring after 50 years in business but we are in talks about a take over and hope that Le Prevo will continue under new management. Our shop remains closed but we are taking online orders. We thank you for you patience at this difficult time. And they appear to be still open for orders

That looks real good so it does. A real match for that blade

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I don't like making things to order. In the past, when I did, I had far too many clients quibbling about things. I prefer to make what I want to make and offer it for sale. When I've been asked 'can you make this for me?' I say 'yes, I can but I won't', Sometimes that ends the request. Sometimes I get asked 'how much for xxx?' I tell them ' you can't afford my prices'. Usually that ends the request but occasionally that ruffles their feathers and they insist on a price so I give them some really outrageous price. On a couple of times that backfired on me and I then took on the job When I was a photographer a few of us in one area did something that was actually illegal. We had a cartel. We fixed all our prices to be similar so that we weren't competing against each other price wise, We did offer different range of services but they were priced according to our agreement. At the time their were loads of non-fulltime photogs out there, all undercutting our prices but they could not undercut or service thus they couldn't really compete with us.

That looks grand

Thanks for that Best of luck with that. My agent wants me to make some to sell. . . . along with all the other stuff he wants

My main hat looks like the one in your first picture but I want to make one like your second picture I bought a pattern from dieselpunk for an 'Indiana Jones Style' hat a few years ago

Looking for a dead-blow mallet I came across a place not too far from no.1 son's work place selling a 1lb, a 2lb and a 3lb dead-blow mallets for £14.99 delivered. Thats £14.99 for all three. Or I can buy a 2lb one for £8.85 mmm, choices, choices . . . .

I've been following this. I reckon I need a heavier maul. I don't as yet do any real decorative stamping. I have an old wood working mallet. Total weight is 16oz. I have a HDPE mallet, total weight is 11.5oz, head only is 9.5oz Do you think a rubber 1.5lb dead-blow mallet would do? I can no longer swing anything much heavier than that oh man, that is so real nice looking. May you have the joy of lots of happy hours using it yeah, they don't like it or understand it. . . . . until they need something fixed and they expect you to have the fixings,

Check this one out; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vacuum-Valve-Bagging-Composites/dp/B01DL7NGBI

Be prepared for changing the blade often. I find soft leather, especially my chrome tan stuff blunts the blade very quickly. Much more quickly than any veg tan I have

The nfo doesn't help with the gloss. It helps the wax mix be absorbed into the leather. Without the nfo the wax mix just sits on the top layer of the leather. The carnauba wax gives the shine but its a really hard wax so its mixed with the softer beeswax to make it workable

My place is between 35 and 50ft below Atlantic Mean Sea Level. (ie the other side of the island of Ireland) There are large whirlpools at the North end where the Irish Sea becomes the North Channel and meets the Atlantic. The whirlpools are those of legend, big enough to take a small ship to doom. At the South end of the Irish sea where its wider the tides are stronger as the sea tries to level it self. We have several small airfields and a small airport nearby and pilots are astonished that they have to set their altimeter for minus 35 or 50 feet Sorry for off-topic. Just answering

My place is 29ft above Irish Sea Level, or about 10 ft above Mean Sea Level of the British Isles. I was told many years ago that mean air pressure here is about 15.1 lb

Waaay too expensive and too much work there Dwight I have a microwave oven which is also a grill and convection oven. I put the waxes into a wee ceramic pot (bought for about 20p /25c at a charity/thrift shop) and that into the oven at 100* for 1 hour. The waxes melt together in that time. I lift out of the oven and just set it aside to harden in that pot. I use it from the pot

afair, the chaps were in use by South American cattle drovers first, then the idea worked north into Mexico and then spread through the US cattle states. Early on 100% of cattle drovers were Mexican or mixed-birth, then by about 1860s about 10% were white Caucasians, Mexicans and mixed-birth still dominated the cattle droving. After the War-between-the-States (aka the US Civil War) more European types moved into that employment but afair it never got above 20 to 25%. But the demand for cattle had grown so much that that 20% was still several thousand men.

A. that looks just grand so it does B. A win there

As instructed to me by a Finnish archaeologist; The H is nearly silent, you start with a breath like you are about to sneeze then naV, then a short E sound, then tev-l

Not something I've paid much attention too but over on a plastic model making website there are some people who use their Cricut to make self-adhesive masks for covering model parts for spray painting. afaik they draw the masks up in their computer

Its really no more complicated than chess. Sort-of a cross between chess and chequers