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Thank you, @spacedog! Patience - is accurate, but practice needs to be continued In this work, I finally managed to make the fur more or less plausible. But I myself see what next time I need to work harder on some details.

Mike, thanks! I am very grateful to you! It looks weird, but despite the fact that access to the www.tandyleather.com from Ukraine is impossible, www.leathercraftlibrary.com is fully accessible to me. I could easily download the catalog using my account. PS. I hope they will not block its also.

Brian, thanks for compliment!

Thanks! Carving, embossing and interprocessing - about 20 hours, coloring - 30 hours. I am not a very fast worker.

If in short words, in this case (without using leather inserts) the process is as follows: 1. Transfer the contour pattern to the leather (with a stylus or, as I usually do, print the contour with inkjet printer on the film and apply the printed side to the leather). 2. Carving, stamping, modeling with spoon and stylus. 3. Molding (I do not know how correctly I translated the term into English). 4. Coloring with spirit dyes. Recently, I made a small entertaining (non-teaching) video that just shows this steps of the example of the German Shepherd portrait.

Mike, many thanks you again for your active participation and help!!! I am glad that Tandy, in the person of Mr. Jeff, has confirmed her customer focus and that the name and reputation for them is not an empty phrase. I hope that very soon the Ukrainians will again be able to use Tandy's services and goods.

Thank you!

In Ukraine, several years ago, they introduced mandatory labeling of products "Does not contain genetically modified components." It's funny to watch this sign on bottled plain water

Honestly, I don’t want to make online purchases using anonymous access (proxy or something similar). If the site "does not trust me," why should I trust him with my personal and billing (payment) information?

Mike, thank you so much. I am very sorry that in this way you have lost some of your precious time and nerve cells. The last few years I have the impression that incompetence and disgusting attitude to the customer have become the norm for most companies. I thought it was only in our national business. But, apparently, this is a global problem According to my personal observations, as soon as the owner(s) of the company ceases to take an active part in its work, passing on all decisions to the hired management, the quality of work and friendliness of company drops sharply. I really want to hope that in the case of Tandy this is just an excess of executor, and not a company policy. Thank you again!

Thank you!

Thank you, Brian!

Tandy on Instagram confirmed the existence of problems accessing his sites from "some countries" without giving a reason. Thanks to everyone who kept this thread afloat.

Judging by the trace, the problem is on his side. Трассировка маршрута к tandyleather.com [52.201.44.148] с максимальным числом прыжков 30: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 2 3 ms 4 ms 3 ms xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 3 3 ms 6 ms 4 ms 91.196.148.30 4 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms v1040.luna-sw.kv.wnet.ua [128.0.175.222] 5 4 ms 5 ms 4 ms te0-7-0-32.890.rcr21.kbp01.atlas.cogentco.com [149.6.190.225] 6 23 ms 21 ms 22 ms be2046.ccr21.bts01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.58.245] 7 28 ms 27 ms 28 ms be3044.ccr21.prg01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.59.97] 8 36 ms 36 ms 37 ms be3027.ccr41.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.205] 9 44 ms 45 ms 44 ms be2815.ccr41.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.38.205] 10 128 ms 129 ms 129 ms be12194.ccr41.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.56.93] 11 131 ms 129 ms 131 ms be3487.ccr51.lhr01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.60.6] 12 127 ms 128 ms 130 ms be2391.ccr21.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.39.150] 13 128 ms 134 ms 130 ms be3042.ccr21.ymq01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.44.162] 14 128 ms 128 ms 128 ms be2088.ccr21.alb02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.43.18] 15 129 ms 129 ms 130 ms be2915.ccr41.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.40.62] 16 209 ms 128 ms 129 ms be3495.ccr31.jfk10.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.182] 17 130 ms 139 ms 131 ms 38.140.106.162 18 * * * Превышен интервал ожидания для запроса. 19 * * * Превышен интервал ожидания для запроса. 20 * * * Превышен интервал ожидания для запроса. ... Based on the fact that everything from other countries works fine, and with me, when using a proxy, too, it’s very similar to blocking by the IP group associated with the country.

I get 403 error both on my work computer and at home. And on the smartphone too - both in network at work and at home.

Mike, I did not even count on such a radical way of solving the issue Thanks!!! I am definitely not a valuable customer for Tandy (most of my purchases are books and some tools). But in Ukraine there are a sufficient number of people working with leather, who, I think, will be glad of the possibility of continuing their purchases through website TandyLeather.

Mike, thanks for such compliment!

Yes, I haven't vacuumed my laptop for quite a while. Need to do. Thanks for the warning And as for dust bunnies, I can’t even remember a special word in Ukrainian for that. Well, except that the word dust is "poroh". Sir, the USA is doing quite a lot in this direction, for which the Ukrainians are very grateful.

Thank you, Mike. I tried to log in through a proxy (Germany and the USA) - everything works. What Ukraine is guilty?

Thanks! It seems that this is a deliberate blockage. How to explain Tandy that Ukraine is not Russia?

Some time ago I started having problems with access to https://www.tandyleather.com/ (https://www.tandyleather.ca/, https://www.tandyleather.eu/ - same) Error 403 Forbidden The problem is constant and repeated over several days. I wanted to ask, is it only when trying to enter the site from Ukraine or someone has the same situation?

Thank you! I think that this is the merit of the author of this wonderful photo of a puma that I used for this work. Well, the puma itself Thank you for such a high appreciation, @battlemunky! PS. I also want to hope so

@Smartee @Bugstruck @motocouture @Rossr Thanks for such a high appreciation of my work and compliments! Thank you, Tom!