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I made up some different sized burnishers to attach to my dremel - used a chop saw to cut some short pieces of an old broomstick - screwed a dremel arbor into the center - shaped em by putting them in the dremel and wrapping different sized drill bits with sand paper seems to work okay

Thanks fer that ;0)

Used this overstitcher with the 5 per inch wheel on it (little tighter than every 1/4") http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com/home/de...ature=Product_2 Then punched the holes on the front panel with 1/8" punch - then marked corresponding holes on the side panel and punched - then laced with 1/8" using the round braid Doing it this way makes all of the lacing really nice and tight but boy oh boy it's tedious and time consuming. I don't think I'll use this method much except when I'm doing really fussy work. Having to go through the holes twice when only using a 1/8 hole makes for a lot of work the second time through.

"If" the bag you saw a couple weeks ago was the one I did? I used a stitch marker to mark where to punch my holes and set it at 5 holes per inch - used Tandy 1/8" lace to d the basket weave - makes for a nice tight weave but is very time consuming - for this newbie anyway ;0)

Noice!!! :0)

kewl, I've seen that background on a few things here - like the effect. Tandy site doesn't list anything else as coming with it but hopefully my tandy guy will know - might not be the same in Canuckia ;0) Gracias once again amigo :0) Rob

Truck? Wha truck? ;0)

Beauty seat Ian. What backgrounder gives that effect? Like the pebbling a lot :0) Rob

Hey there, welcome eh :0) Where y'at? Rob

Wow! I can't even imagine how to put something like that together with all of the pieces and reinforcement involved Beautiful - wish I could pull something like that off for my own scoot as I'd love to be able to accurately match the fender lines.

Hah! excellent :0) Good thing cuz that's what I was going to use it for anyway ;0) Thanks :0) Rob

As the nickname implies: Presently Oh, and just so beauty doesn't get her nose bent outta shape ;0) Cool accents - you've given me some idears ;0)

Hah! Where were you yesterday when I skived right through to the stamping on a business card wallet :0/ LOL Thank gawd it had some things about it I wasn't happy with anyway so calling it yet anuther newbie lesson learned - fresh skiving blades are MUCH more effective than the dull one that came with the skiver bought used ;0) (smacking myself in the head )

Neat looking project - what's it going on?

The same braid is on page 70 of Grant's book (got that one too ;0) but the instruction is much more convoluted than in the tandy guide - I think Grant's book is prob'ly aimed at people with more braid savvy than I have ;0)

the $5 Tandy book "Lacing and Stitching for Leathercraft" has it and the illustrations are good - it's what I used to learn it - not a tuff braid at all once you've done it once or twice - certainly no where near as tuff as some of the braiding I see on here that's for sure! Rob

Cool! Ready aye Rob

Having taken a second look at it, I'll bet it did! How on earth did you manage to do the round braid in such tight confines?? Enquiring newbies wanna know!

Noice!!!!!! Like the detail in it!

Aaaah, now that you mention it, I did see those pics

okay????? officially lost me now LOL

Absolutely 200% agree - ergo they will not go out in the garbage, but hide somewhere in my shop for decades till I come up with a good use for them LOL

Wine - I know that the previous owner was fond of making purses etc - you might be right on the being used for thinner leathers thing Suze - I don't think so - I have one of those and they have wheels on em instead of grooves - that and this would be pretty fancy to use for doing that type of work Keep the ideas comin folks! We'll figure this out LOL I'm really starting to think that the curtain pull weights might be what the other things are

LOL that makes perfect sense too, I think I remember things like that (implying that I don't remember a lot of my youth, not that you're older than me ;0) It would explain the taper of the hole so the knot would be hidden inside the weight. the answer is out there hehehe

Hmmmmm, that would make sense - not solid brass but they do have some heft to them - yup, all look identical