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Cant help wondering why the forth one has a much longer slit

Designed part time on a quite moment, from making Battleships I think, sold with a 100 year guarantee on parts

Many thanks to you both, but i doubt i will use much, I thought £6-7 per square ft was expensive Mention Horse leather to many girls around here and they will bust out crying and put curses on you (learnt from Hogwarts)

Whats a whiskey shell?

something like the alpress hand clicker supplies a good pressure and is bullet proof, no hydraulics or electricity for the smaller jobs, just keep the knives sharp and the layers not to many Similar item here

Buffing excessively will remove the top surface on most things as you are just rubbing it away All you want to do after giving it about 24 hours to fully dry is buff it for a couple of minutes totake of any loose dye that may be sitting on the surface to leave a smooth surface for finish

What we did was to get a company to erect some free standing walls partitions with a insulated roof inside the unit to make office space, i guess in your case maybe a 4mtr x 4mtr work room. This was solid wall height to about 1.5 mtr and then glass from there to the ceiling The cheaper option would be a plywood room with 2x 4 timber support or a portacabin inside

Quite fancy a Boss or Purdy shotguns and rate them highly, sorry no nought about sewing machine

I think that says it all, the perfect attitude to life

In the UK we can get around some shop rates by using industrial buildings and have a trade counter with display area Some very old fashioned companies thing the small one man bands are going to only sell on the EBay and Amazon and lower the price and therefore effect their own sales I would imagine a photo of your main street and highlight the sales do not justify the shop, but if successful, then that would be the next option and a promise not to sell online may possible open the door

They look like the studs that were used on sports cars hoods, so would expect them to be in car factors or hood makers under classic cars

Keep the work area very clean and don't move the leather around more than really necessary

,Just found this site on Etsy that has a large number of downloadable templates for bags and other items at in most cases about £5 or under. Downloaded template comes in both AO size and A4, and the one i have just downloaded, looks well thought out; and whilst it does not have instructions as such, the wording on each template is enough to show where it should go etc As most patterns will probably only be used once or twice, I don't think it matters much if pattern is printed on Paper/Card rather than the more expensive acrylic ones Link here https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LeatherPatternCraft?ref=l2-shop-info-name

In the UK and I guess elsewhere you can get "WOW" paper that is primary used for printing onto T Shirts and the like basically you draw your logo using Corel draw or similar then print onto special WOW paper then heat press onto the garment with no weeding (removing bits not wanted. you can see the process here on a video http://www.themagictouch.co.uk/acatalog/WoW_Professional.html

Could it be a very thick piece of leather and the bevelling is scalloped out to give a valley look, much like on wood they use a router or chisel

Full details of the 3D printing of the stamp and usage would probably be of great interest to many Good luck and maybe do a new belt to match

A inside thigh holster looks very sexy on some films i have seen, though may not look so sexy if very overweight

A hat band will be to light leather to be able to cut, as it would just distort Maybe a clever use of stamps would work as they only need the design pattern and not a copy of how it was done previously, I would suggest a stamp made by 3D printing to the size you require, I did see something on YouTube about someone doing this, and although the plastic stamps don't last as long as metal ones, they should last long enough to complete this product and a few more and be minimal cost if you know someone with a 3D printer

When a new sailor joined the home fleet in Scapa Flow a remote anchorage in the Orkneys, on first run ashore he asked his mate why the rush up the hill towards some sheep His mate answered "You don't want to get the ugly one do you"

Will do Thanks Chris

Ok many thanks for some very helpful answers. I am now ready to go after i get my neatsfoot tomorrow Chris

I understand it leaves the leather stain's, which grows darker with every coating Do you have to apply to the skin (flesh) side or can you apply to the rough inside to avoid this staining showing Last hopefully question, how thick do you apply it, and rub in or leave with surface oil Many thanks to all who have replied Chris (now realising why cheap was not a good investment unless this works, but only brought to train on.)

Thanks Kiwican Does NFO smell after applying

I have some cheap very dry shoulder of 2.4mm veg tan, should i apply some neats foot oil to it before using and if I do can i still oil dye it afterwards Please excuse my ignorance but still a newbe to leatherwork

Thanks to both of you for your input I did look at the first company but the delivery time and prices put me off, in the end I went for Vergez Blanchard stitching awl's Hope I did not make the same mistake a second time, the original ones when looked at closely just had a sharp short point of about 4 mm in length which i think just pushes it into the leather as a large lump rather than the long slow in growth of this awl which should make it gut through rather than punch its way Should have known better at my age but thought i had gotten away with a great buy, we never learn you get what you pay for Sorry about the bold I can't get it to switch off