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    This is my latest project.

    This is Traditional (1/9) Scale set. It contains:

    · Weymouth Bridle with "Gold" Plated Browband & Cheek Pieces and 5 strand hand-braided "web" snaffle

    · White Gala Saddle

    · "Gold" Plated Crupper

    · "Gold" Plated Breast Collar

    · Blanket with hand-braided trim the same shade of gold as the web snaffle bridle with two gold bands indicating rider status as fit for performances.

    BTW, the horse is a Balidor sculpted by Pat Sinnot. No, it isn't painted yet. Fitting tack to a model can be hazardous to paint finishes, so it's best to use a "body quality" or unpainted model.

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    I've used the Tandy Petite Tooloing Calf before. Part number is 9154-00, it's 1 to 1.5 OZ and comes in 5 to 9 sq. ft. or so.

    Ken

    The catalog says it's 2 oz now...I was hoping for the 1 to 1 1/2 like you were talking about. I'm quite sure I purchased it from Tandy last time.

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    I've learned some things from Grants' books, but have also had places where my brain didn't work that way. So, I've expanded my collection with Tom Hall Books and Ron Edwards Books. Sometimes, a different way of doing it works. For example, the easiest knot instruction for me to understand in Grants book was the one where he did it FLAT instead of trying to show it going around something. Don't know what that means about MY brain...LOL!

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    I've had a whiplash injury that produced many carpel tunnel like symptoms, pushed my bad jaw alignment into full-blow TMJ, left my right arm numb, and other pains.

    For my issues, the best thing that every happened to me was Physical Therapy. I've been through two series: one for the numb arm; one for the TMJ. It hurts bad--there were days I literally sobbed in the parking lot before I could face the drive home--but it does wonders. The exercises keep the numbness in the arm gone. I do have to be FAITHFUL. Cheating on the at-home exercises usually produces very quick and unpleasant results.

    With my TMJ, the doctors talked me into surgery finally. Now that I've done it, I wish I had tried 6-8 months of PT BEFORE surgery, instead of after. ANY surgery is an INJURY. You're being cut with a knife. It has risks. You have to heal again. Always. For me, yeah, okay, some of the neck problems are better, but I also now have a muscle problem in my face that, if ignored when flaring up, interferes with my vision. I'm not sure the trade off was worth it.

    I have had to change the way I do things. Mousing with my right hand the way the ergonomic gurus say to HURTS. I can cross mouse with my right (i.e. mouse on the left, but using right hand with forearm resting on the desk) or I can mouse left handed. (I'm mainly right-handed with mild leanings to ambidextrousness that have been reinforced by PAIN.) Dual hand mousing means I have to purchase a flat mouse, not one of those tilted right or left handed things. (BTW, switching to an optic mouse, if you haven't already, really reduces the strain of mousing.)

    As for mallets vs mauls: DEFINITELY the mauls for me. The mallets required me to lift my shoulder and put the swing in from the elbow down. That caused pain. The maul that I purchased is very nicely balanced for my hand and only has to be tapped with the wrist, allowing the shoulder not to be lifted.

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    Welcome!

    As for Lone Star Leather Crafters, you can still be a member and get those benefits without attending every meeting. With my current responsibilities and energy level, it has been a long time since I've actually been to a meeting. In fact, I think the only thing I managed to do in the last year with them was take one of the workshops at Federation.

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    You can use the designs, X, you just have to be careful that you aren't representing yourself to be a "Native American" artist unless you have the paperwork to back it up.

    Johanna

    Technically, I do have Native American blood, but as I can't prove it at the moment with official tribe membership papers, I'm out-of-luck!

    Back on topic, yes, you can still do Native American designs. But, you do have to be very clear in your communications that everyone understands the items you made were NOT made by a Native American in order to do USA sales. It also applies to items being resold: if they weren't made by a Native American, you have to make that clear.

    Part of the issue, I think, was all the Native American style beadwork that was being made in China, imported, and then sold at USA tourist traps as ethnic.

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    Remember to be careful describing the finished product.

    I tried listing my Scale-Miniature Native American Regalia KIT (for model horses) to ebay recently, only to have them issue me a warning about the use of the words "Native American" or "Indian". Apparently, unless you are a certified member of a tribe, it is illegal to use those words describing anything you make UNLESS you also include the words "Reproduction".

    As Native Americans didn't play with plastic horses, it seemed pretty obvious to me, but I have diligently gone through and added the word "reproduction" to all my various references to it anyway.

    Here's the info from the government on it:

    The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990

    http://www.doi.gov/iacb/act.html

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