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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 :lol: seems to work okay :crazy:

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    I think it was your bag that I saw. I'm not sure what you mean by a stitch marker. Can you post a link to where you bought this? I have an overstitcher that I use as a guide for sewing, but the marks are much too close for the size holes I would need to lacing. I used a quick template that I made on the computer, just to make sure the holes were spaced the same all around.

    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.

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    Thanks for the suggestion. My one regret with this bag was that I didn't use a wider lace, basically for the very reason you said. I think it would have made the braid much cleaner looking. Oh well live and learn. Maybe I'll get motivated one day to re-braid it with wider lace.

    "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)

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    You're right about the first tool being a beader. It looks like one for tooling a single bead. I suspect that would be for doing a bead that doesn't follow a knife cut or edge since both sides seem to be the same height. Here are photos of a couple of mine. The other picture shows the bead put on the edge of a design. That bead was done with the smaller of the two in the second photo.

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

    Thanks :0)

    Rob

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    Sure…. Just don't skive to much…

    I would skive it down to half the thicknes. Much more then that would waken the

    stitching to much… a strap or belt you can skive down thin because it will have

    thinker part that will hold it…. But when It comes to edges of bags one need to

    be careful how much one takes off.

    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 )

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    Thanks a lot. I'm going to order that. I've been using a book called Leather Braiding by Bruce Grant. It is pretty decent, and has lots of different braids in it, but I just didn't see this one.

    Thanks again,

    Dan

    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)

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    I love that braiding. Do you have a reference somewhere as to how to do that (book or web site)? The braiding book I have doesn't have it in it.

    Thanks

    Dan

    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

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    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

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    They look a lot like the weights on the ends of the curtain pulls at my parent's house when I was a very young child. The rubber eventually cracked away so the metal hit the wall when you closed the curtains. Before that the rubber protected the walls. No idea if that is right or not. Just what they reminded me of.

    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

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