ScoobyNewbie

You guys have scared the... stuffing out of me about pricing/selling stuff. I thought I could do stuff for people and they would just be happy. And so far, that’s how it’s been. But I have seen some of the... stuff Jim has gone through, and read some that you guys have gone through. I think I’ll just stick to my little happy projects and stay out of the deep water.

I’ve been using the water based Eco flo and the waterstains here at Tandy. I haven’t really buffed either of them and I haven’t seen any “lifting” (do you mean that they come off on other materials if they aren’t buffed properly?). My son made me 2 bracelets that I used satin sheen for a finish over Eco flo leather dye colors, and I made some bracelets that I just used the water stain on. No finish at all. Oh, and an Erica purse for the store. No finish at all. No buffing. No lifting. So, I would say that the water based Eco flo and waterstains don’t lift much at all as long as you let them dry for 24 hours. I don’t know how they do in the sun or in weather conditions. Still working on my purse from, like June. I’m thinking I will resolene it to water proof it. The new Neatlac is great for waterproofing, but unless your project is already a dark color, I probably wouldn’t use it. It left a dark color on the veggie tan strip that I used both resolene and Neatlac on for examples that I would be able to keep with me during the day. They both waterproofed great.

Nice edge!

There used to be lamps made with a saddle pattern worked around them, I’ve seen a thread on here about finding a pattern for them. Maybe you could side one up?

Has anybody tried chestnuts? I mean, that’s a favorite color, right? Chestnut brown? Mahogany would be cool too...

I’m not sure, but I think acrylic dyes are acrylic paints. At Tandy we have water based dyes, water based acrylics, alcohol based dyes and oil based dyes. Acrylics have to be sealed in order not to crack with movement or bending.

I have used (abused) the new machine at Tandy. I liked it. It ran very smoothly and was quieter than most of the older machines I have used in the past. The pedal is a lovely large treadle plate, and it goes very easily, slow to peddle to the metal. It comes with a piece of what looks like latigo belt blank with great big stitches all the way around and down the middle. So, I immediately threw a piece of six ounce in front of the foot and sewed about an inch on it. I had made the stitches fairly tiny with the stitch length bar... probably just above the middle. probably 12-13 ounce. Sewed just fine. Then I put another 6 ounce piece in front of the foot. Sewed for about an inch. I had run out of latigo by this time and so I put another 6 ounce piece in front of the foot and sewed another inch. So probably 18 ounces total. No problem. Then I thought I would see how it back stitched... Jim got mad. Okay, so what happened was the tension on the rubber gear belt attached to the machine got high enough to pull the little gear pulley in the middle between the two rubber belts that attach the machine to the motor up, making the belt on the machine too loose and making a.. bad and upsetting noise. Jim loosened the pulley bolt, reset the belts and it runs beautifully again. So, lesson learned, only two layers on the stitch master and don’t go above 12 ounce total. Didn’t even bend the needle. ‘I think it’s lovely, and I’m gonna get one for my birthday!

Beautiful!

Love the plaid!

Beautiful! Congratulations!

Oooooo! That’s pretty!

Bears. It’s always bears.

Very cool! I prefer daidric. No hope for me doing it though.

Very cool! Dragons love gold!

Very cool!

Very nice

That hammer’s going to cause more problems when it lands...

Ooo! Pretty!

Have you tried some of the Asian online sites? They often have really cool stuff.

Beautiful!

I like the lillies!

I’ll have to try again. So much better than my son’s and my pickpocket deterrent design!

The Kong comes in colors... oooo! Pier 1 and world market have cool bottles that are squatty or pyramidal! Less tippy!

It is a snazzy wallet shell! What’s the inside look like?

Good luck!