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    Conservation by Design Ltd (in UK but ship wherever) has these products
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    hi Dale where are you based? I am in the UK and restore 17 / 18 century books amongst other things. But I know some of the stuff I use is Archival (which equals expensive) and not available elsewhere. If its not as rare or valuable and not a book, see photo of binocular case before and after, I have been very successful with judicious use of Dr Jacksons Hide Rejuvenator from Tandy Leather I also use my own mix of beeswax, oil and turpentine, very cautiously. It often darkens the leathers. In bookbinding we repain pieces such as in the picture, from the back first, and often by laying a kitchen towel with the product on it on a flat surface, and laying the flesh side of the leather down first, leave it for a while and check, repeat as needed. We would then build up the leather by cutting and skiving pices to go into the gaps, then dyeing the insets.
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    http://www.tackrepair.com/ is run by a guy called Michael out of Island Lake, IL 60042 Mid West Tack Repair H
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    Wow. Great work. H
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    Neolithic old folk often make mistakes like that
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    I'm sure he's a lost cause, unless we can help him back, Chris H (and no I am not being too rude... he called me neolithic! and anyway, he is VERY helpful, and nice to chat with)
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    No photos, but I will join in for non nagging support, my belly leather would upholster a muscle car.
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    As a query, not to get more photos of you... Is this a challenge/camaraderie shout out? If so I may be part of a world wide leatherworker.net weight loss team. If not, maybe just chaw down on more cake. But all encouragement from me. H
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    Hi Tanya, Welcome to the forum. I have a 45k with a servo motor, well quiet, but as Matt and Wiz have said it's a bit of a beast. It was demonstrated by the seller 30 years back, by him wrapping leather around 1/4 in ply and stitching through it all. Now I have it returned, I will NOT stitch plywood with it. Its also got a longer stitch length than you'd probably want on your work... maybe not but it's usually 4 or 5 to the inch. You could ask to try it and see. Lovely machine though, with a quiet modern engine, yay. Best Harry
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    I have Sergei's stamps, they are excellent.
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    Ya next had to go and say it didnt ya. I'm knocking wood for you too. I cut my hand badly and went to ER three weeks ago, still not in the workshop, this was in the darn kitchen.
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    I thought the ubiquitous Red and White soda cans,
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    If its Abbey, their foundry is in the UK. There are a number of producers in Europe, but many are wholesale only, particularly the Italian ones. I remember Astor and Bemi (I think) being German, and theleatherhouse are in EU amongst others Harry
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    No non-alcoholic versions around, I presume? From your PM yesterday I had presumed a leaning to H&S Doing well on an interesting project there, Matt.
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    Sheesh Matt, you must be old... He lived near where I grew up in the New Forest.
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    It's a sprung version of the old fashioned bell shaped key case. Most use a strip of leather through an oval hole, with a snap. This is sewn into the seam, and springs open when the wire ends are pushed together.
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    I cover the heads with leather, specifically to avoid this. H
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    Bill the cat is far more (oh so much more) confused than GRod's queries show him to be...
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    Looking good, Matt, keen to see the results when its splitting. Well perservered H
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    For my bookbinding, where I pare paper for repairs, as well as leather, I use a reclaimed hacksaw blade, ground to mimic the English Paring knife. loads of control, in a smaller tall. So a ground down large hacksaw blade would work as a more normal sized one. Harry
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    Standard English Paring Knife. Its what I have used since 1983. Same knife too.
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    Okay Fredk good call
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    As an unbiased and somewhat uninterested observer, did you read what you put immediately before this?
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    You may well have missed the huge opus of good he has given free of charge on this forum and through his website. I've never commented on any YouTube videos, as they seem to polarize people, and they some folk comment without all of the available information. Different strokes for different folks. AND this is NOT a comment on the quality of Don's nor anyone's videos. Does Don ever comment on this forum? Just a query, never seen it.
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    Casing leather and bending skin to skin first, will give some stretch, prior to bending flesh to flesh, it loosens the fibresjust enough, usually. Just my 0.02 H
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