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Your file set case is sweet!! Damon

Thanks. I'll try to convince him to go black unless he can wait until next weekend when I can make it to either HC or TLF Take care all. Damon

I have a friend who want me to make them a brown pouch but the only brown dye I have is Eco Flow, will putting a coating of Leather Sheen on it prevent or retard the dye from bleeding and fading? I just don't have the time right now to go to Ft Worth and get some Fiebings and I'm just trying to work with what I have. Damon

For those of you who have gmail accounts, you can go to http://sites.google.com and get your own free site. I don't think you can do any e-commerce, but I haven't delved into the real workings of it yet. Damon

Is he going to be working at one of the stores or the offices there on I-20? Damon

Here you go. Accents Extra, Keene, TX (817) 556-5870 Damon

I wouldn't use them for the simple fact of they won't last long and they could come apart easy (as far as bracelets go, IMHO). At the flea market my wife frequents there's a man who tries to sell his stuff (his work is good) who uses a lot of velcro for his closures and that stuff seems to never sell. If you don't want to use line 24 snaps you could try the sigma snaps, they're a bit more low profile. Damon

And I bet you ran like you stole it. Darn good score there, partner. Damon

Dude! I am so envious of you right this minute. I bet that it's a beauty. Damon

Depends on the watch and the magnets you are going to use. With some watches, especially wind up watches, a strong enough magnet will cause the watch to run backwards or stop all together.

Refund or not, I'd send that one on the back. And if I had made it, I'd be embarrassed to give a customer something like that. How do you keep the right one from twisting when you hit it? Damon

I don't know it this is what your looking for, but I've been practicing some of this in leather, and some with pretty good results. http://www.instructables.com/tag/?sort=non...imit:type:id=on Hope this helps. Damon

You don't even know the half of it. There is no known cure for leather bug bites, ask around here, there are some who have been dealing with their conditions for decades. If your leather is thin enough I'd start out with some key fobs. You don't have to go to Tandy to get the key rings, I got a bag of about 30 rings at Wal-Mart for about $3.50. From Tandy, get yourself some waxed thread, some tube rivets and a setter set and a couple of needles and let your imagination go. Bracelets are pretty much the same but you need to get some snap sets. Just do a search on fobs and bracelets here and you can find some stuff that doesn't have any tooling on them. Damon

For all you Texans out there, there is a store in Keene called Accents Extra, a western style furniture store, that is currently selling hair on cow hide "rugs" (no backing) for $170 until the end of summer (they didn't have a set date for the sale to end when I asked them today). They normally sell them for $200. The 3-4 that I looked at today were very soft and clean to boot. The store is located on the east side of Keene on Hwy 67 just before the Cleburne cutoff . Hope someone can benefit from this info. Damon

Back when I was in college I was assigned to a group trying to create an interactive website and I can say that it isn't that easy to do what they're trying to do. When my test site went online and a closed (college campus) network it still went down due to some bug that didn't show up until it went "live". Depending on what you have on the site (java, javascript, etc.) there are some things that you won't know about until it is released from a test computer/network. Something that works good on Internet Explorer may not work so well on Opera or Firefox and vice versa. The internet has more variables than a test server. Eric told me some thing last weekend similar to what Marlon mentioned, $2.00 sewing machines, $.50 lizard skins, not adding tax when needed, adding taxes when not needed. Most of this seems to be database problems. It could be something as simple as a period instead of a comma or it could be something worse. It just takes time to go through the code and fix it and the company that they're using has more than one client to worry about.

I think so. I, too, am in the process of doing the same thing with the exception of the Crafttools that I know were made back in the '80s when my dad tried to get into leathercrafting. Tools from back then are still worth using. I'm slowly getting to the point where, with the geometrics, I can tell if it's a Crafttool or not.

I'm rather mean when I get bored. be evil with me

I love to but I can't afford it nor I don't think that any of my Fray siblings from any kingdom will be going either. *sniff* Have some fun for me too. Damon

Stropping is polishing the blade which helps keep it sharp, sharpening is actually taking the blade to a sharpening stone. George Hurst got me into the habit of stropping my knives when I pick them up, throughout the time I'm carving and once more before I put them down, otherwise he threatens to break my arms. But I think that Kevin gave me his answer to my question by saying that it ultimately boils down to experience. With my line of work I don't have too much time (or money for leather) for experimenting and I'll admit that I'm looking for short cuts (no pun intended) to get desired effects. I did some more doodling today and think that for now I'll stick with a thicker blade for my dec. cuts. I was simply wondering what other people do to get theirs looking so good. Thanks Kevin. Damon

Found out where the munchkin hid them. Here you go. I used the thin blade more towards the tip of the leaf. Damon.

Howdy all, I was doodling around making an oak leaf (picture to come after I find out what my 7 yr. old did with the batteries) today and I was having trouble making the decorative cuts looking good. I used 2 different blades, a Berry King thin, hollow ground blade and your average run of the mill thick blade. For the lack of practice, the use of the thick blade worked ok compared to the thin. For all you more skilled people out there, does the blade make the difference or is it pretty much experience. I've watched George Hurst show a few people how to hold the knife and twist it to get the desired effect but I don't know if he was just using a knife that was handy or what, I don't remember what kind of blade was on the knife. Thanks for the help. Damon

I was up there about 2 weeks ago and asked Ron the same thing and he said that it's still being worked on and should be out soon. Damon

Thanks for the trip down memory lane (somewhat) Clay. When I was in the 8th or 9th grade my parents took me and my brother on a trip to the badlands of South Dakota. We stayed a couple of weeks in the Black Hills Nat. Forest and bounced between Lead, Deadwood and Wall. One of the best memories that I have is of the trees, you scratch at the bark and it smells like butterscotch. I think that they're Pondorosa Pines. We did make a couple of day trips up close to the N. Dakota border to the badlands. It was so awesome to see free roaming buffalo. I hope to take my kids up there and share the experience I had. After I kick the kids out of the house I hope to make it up to Scandinavia, in the summer time, and go to the stav churches up there. People have told me that the pictures on the internet don't even try to do them justice.

Hmmm. I just looked all over mine and the only thing that says singer on it is the needle. I'll try to remember to ask my mom about hers. The only thing I can think of right off hand is that maybe Singer bought out Dressmaker after mine was made. I must look into the history of this line of machines.

Singer and Dressmaker are 2 separate brands. I think Dressmaker originated from Germany (which is where my grandmother picked it up from while she was living there long before she ever heard about them here in America) because mine has to have a power converter while my moms, who has a Dressmaker also, doesn't, there's almost 35 years difference between the 2. This is what I have.