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If you can send me an email with pictures I can discuss with you, bentley.leather@gmail.com Thank you, Mark

Want your leather to look like copper patina? Clean with oxalic acid and dye with Fiebings light blue, not the look I was trying to achieve but there is some reaction with the acid I guess.

Some of the banks are going to charge a fee for having a debit card, when my bank decides to do that I will turn my card in and start carrying my checkbook again.

Great looking work! Thank you for sharing.

Your welcome, if you need instuctions for a pineapple knot send me a PM with your email address. Mark

Try these sites. http://pineapple.myfunforum.org/ http://khww.net/news.php

That was going to be my suggestion, stitch a piece of leather below the loop to keep the shell from sliding down.

Very nice, try using a Pro Petal tool to lift the tips of the pieces in the pine cone.

Leathercrafters and Saddlers Journal had several articles in the past about braiding, one was 4 to 8 strand braid. They may be able to look up what issue it was in and sell you old copies. Robert Black was the author.

1 3/4" wide collar with 2" lining and 48" x 1 1/4" leash, mahogany finish, Swarovski crystal Roped Berry and Rain Star conchos, nickel hardware and pyramids. Another satisfied customer because they got exactly what they asked for and they did not have to settle for something from a big box store.

Never gave consignment much thought before but thanks for all the knowledge from past experiance. Sounds like a lot of work for very little pay back, even if you have a good selling product the store is making most the profit. Great information for us less experianced professionals, think I will stick with custom orders.

Another question, why no keeper on the inside of the belt to keep the two pieces aligned?

I can send you info on how to make one if you send me a meesage with your email address. Don't know were you can buy one and shipping cost out of the country are too expensive to make it worth your while to have me make it.

Both very nice pieces of work.

Welcome, read your story and had to add a reply. Lost my closest friend that also just happened to enjoy leather a few years ago and went thru a similar stretch of putting it away for a while. Now the passion is back and enjoying it again, each time I sit down at the bench it brings back good memories of working and discussing projects with that friend. It is like riding a bicycle, maybe a little shaky at first but it all comes back quickly. Have fun and enjoy the forum.

There was a recent post under Leather Tools about differant compounds for stropping that may be worthy of pinning. I believe it was by Knipper. Name: Mark Bentley UserName: bentley IP Address: 71.209.146.53 Email Address: bentley.leather@gmail.com

Great information, I have been doing leather work for many years and had never heard of the various compounds available. Now the search begins on where to find them. Thank you.

Thank you for this post. I too live in the Valley of the Sun near Williams Gateway and often see fighter jets fly over our roof tops while doing touch and go landings, it always reminds me there are still brave Soldiers protecting my family and country. God bless America and our Soldiers! Mark