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  1. The costless may is to use sand paper. Last Friday I did the test with two of my old knives. Since they are dull, I apply sand paper of #120, then #400 and finally #2000. After that, I strap it on leather strap with green stropping compound.

    I'm satisfied with the result :) Easily cut 8oz leather.

     


  2. Good job, it looks great!

    It always takes a lot of time to find a proper hardware with good quality. I bought 3 hardware kits for Kelly or Birkin from Taobao (a China website), where you may find everything. The quality of the hardware is good to me. It comes up with several tiny rivets, rather than screws, to install the hardware. 

    https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.90.37b5613bfvAgDO&id=584199496458&ns=1&abbucket=16#detail


  3. I developed a dual-channel electric leather creaser. I'm not sure if I posted it on the correct board....

    The creaser can accurately control and display the temperature of iron tips. The maximum power of each channel is 70W, and voltage can be 110v or 220v. If you are interested, please visit my store https://www.etsy.com/listing/691160733 to get more details.

    It is $398 for double-creaser kit, which incudes dual-channel machine, 2 handles, 5 iron tips and handle rest.

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  4. On 4/29/2019 at 11:51 AM, beaulama said:

    Hello Wayne,

    Your work is wonderful and well done, you are very talented, I am also new on this forum and I love really the Birkin bag, I have made already several of this bag for friends and my wife and my daughter.

    So I am very happy to find another leathercrafter interested by this bag.

    I have bought the pattern 5 years ago at "Free leathercraft pattern" and I buy the hardware at this site but I would like to find hardware of a better quality and my question is where do you buy yours ?

    Here is a photo of the last Birkin bag I made for a friend, it is all hand stitched, but now I have bought a sewing machine and I will learn to make it with a machine (it is another way).

    I am very interested by your leather creaser, is it really cheaper than a Regad one ?

    Alain.

    Hi Alain,

    Sorry for replying late.  My leather creaser is $298 for 1 machine + 1 Handle + 5 iron tips +1 Handle rest. If your are interested please visit my store to get more details: https://www.etsy.com/listing/691160733 Please let me know if you have any question on it.

    Your project looks very nice! And better than mine.  It's not easy to get high quality hardware. I got it from China. I'm satisfied with its quality, it looks very good. There are 12 tiny rivets to install the hardware, it's difficult and needs experience. It's my second birkin, but I still screw up one rivet....


  5. 17 minutes ago, mikesc said:

    Wayne..I would suggest that if you do have the option in the Etsy system of doing a single page per item, that you do so..Because as it stands it makes your ad in contravention of many EU laws( and it shows to EU residents *) even if it is Etsy's fault..
    If they ( Etsy ) get complaints from the EU about it, Etsy, being a "faceless" corp might shut your account rather than make their own "back end " complaint..

    The difference with Amazon and Ebay is that on the pages displayed in the EU..they do not say" including"..for items which "optional" and which are not "included" in the Price shown on the page without clicking the "drop-downs"..
    
    *Maybe you could restrict it to not show in the EU? ,But that would deprive you of potential customers, 3rd party shopping platform's shopping cart systems can potentially get you into a heap of trouble, ( especially if using them to sell internationally, you can fall foul of rules and laws that you've never heard of and seriously cannot be expected to know ) and it is never "their fault"..

    Thank you Mike, I will take your suggestion!


  6. 57 minutes ago, mikesc said:

    Note the (including Transformer and Accurate Digital Temperature Controller)..for €68.87+ vat
    yes there is a drop down..but
    in the UK and the EU countries..this ad would be illegal and the owner could be prosecuted under the various laws governing deceptive / illegal advertising..
    Because "everyone does it on Etsy"..doesn't make it right..nor legal to be displayed like that in the UK or the EU..

    I'd also be curious about the +VAT ( averages around 20% extra in the UK and EU ) ..because in order to charge VAT, one has to be VAT registered..and to show that registration number at the bottom ( or top ) of every page..of the ad or the site..not to do so is illegal..under international laws agreed with the EU , not just EU law..If a US business or individual wants to charge VAT to an EU customer, they must show the VAT number and be registered for VAT..
    So..who is chargeing the VAT..where is that extra 20% going..who to..under the international agreements ( with the USA included ) if VAT is charged, the business that is charging it has to then send it onwards to VAT authority in the Country that the customer is in..In Chris's case that would be HM Customs and Excise..
    
    If I or any other EU based business ran that ad..I'd expect to be prosecuted over it..for the misleading description of what one gets for the €68.87 ( the ad clearly says that you get "included" the transformer and temperature controller ) ..and also have the VAT authorities prosecuting me for claiming VAT without being registered for VAT..The VAT guys, being part of the Customs system..are really ones that you do not want to mess with..like in the USA..

    Different options share the same details dercription, Etsy doesn't provide the function to set different decription. Ebay is a little bit better, it allow seller set dedicated picture for each option.

    If it does mislead browers, I'm sorry for that but it's not something I want.

    Regarding to VAT, I did nothing to VAT. I just set a price in USD. Etsy will know where the brower comes from, and changes the  currency correspondingly, then maybe some additional fee is added. But it is not me who set the VAT. Actually it's the first time I heard VAT.


  7. 7 hours ago, chrisash said:

    Why do you lie on your etsy adverts giving the impression the whole package is £47 when in reality it is over £236, to me this indicates a rather dishonest selling aproach and makes me wonder about the quality

    Chrisash, someone wants a whole set, but someone not. So I list different options, and of course the price is different. Etsy automatically display the option of lowest price, it's not something I can choose. I'm not sure if you do online shoppings, but a lot of online stores have the same price strategy: showing the lowest opitonal price, such as Etsy, Ebay, Amazon. I'm wondering if you want to call all sellers on these websites lier....

    Actually this price stategy does NOT do anything good to me. Because anyone who finally decide to buy a set will definitely know the price. I would rather like to show the set price. I just don't want to set webpages for every single options. 


  8. It has been 4 years since my last project. I got my new creasing machine, so I tried it and made a wallet for my wife. I set the temperature to 180℃ and it creased nicely on Horween Chromexcel. I tested 250℃, the leather will get burned. It seems around 200℃ is the best temperature. I also tried to use the creasing tool to smooth the edge painting, 220℃ worked very well. However, I didn't spend too much time to polish the edge considering we will use the wallet ourselves...

    The electric creasing tool works very well to me. If anyone is interested in it, please visit my store on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/YUCraftPro

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  9. On 3/10/2018 at 4:54 PM, BasementLeather said:

    Hi everyone this is my first post. The information here is great.

    So the Fileteuse is obviously very expensive. It uses a Regad M3000 Transformer. Can't I just buy another transformer on Amazon?

    I also heard that Campbell-Randall had a cheaper electric creaser option but can't seem to find it.

    My goal is to edge finish mainly with Stahl or Giardini. Will probably use Giardini since Stahl seems hard to come by in the US. I believe these both work well with heat correct? Then I was ok, this can be used for edge creasing as well.

    Initially, for edge crease I was just going to use a wing divider. What is wrong with just using a wing divider over the electric creaser?

    Check this electric creaser in case you still need it. It takes around 300 for a machine, handle, handle rest and 5 irons. And it can accurately control and display the temperature, which is convinent for smoothing edge paint.


  10. On 3/29/2019 at 3:10 AM, Danne said:

    In my price list from Cmdachong I don't have his new creaser (The one pictured here) But I don't think his price is that high. Because it's more expensive than a twin machine from Regad with two handles.

    Don't get me wrong here. Your tool looks like it has a decent price from what you get.

    I have a single machine and I don't need a twin machine. I think there are two reasons you want twin machine. Either because it's comfortable (No need the switch irons when doing a project) or if you use one iron for straight sections and one around corners. (Like FN2 and FN2MCR ) Personally, I use regular irons around corners, which works really good with a little bit of practice.

     

    Thanks Danne! It does need practice to crease cornes with regular irons.


  11. 6 hours ago, Danne said:

    Looks lite a nice solution. But the cost for a Regad with five irons is not  $1100

    Around 730 usd for a Regad with five irons + shipping from Mando (Prices a year old so maybe a little more)

    Or a twin machine with two handles and five irons from Cmdachong 400usd. (Also a year old prices)

     

     

    It seems I didn't find the best deal for Regad. I found Regad's iron tip around $130 per each on Ebay and Etsy. And the best price all over the market for compatible iron tip is $60/each. Never see any lower price for now...  

    Cmdachong's creaser is good. I saw someone is selling it on Etsy, and it is $586 for 2 handle and twin machine, no iron is include, shown below. I'm not sure what's the price to get them from Cmdachong directly.

    By the way, I'd like to know whether it is a common case that you need 2 handles and use them alternately at the same time? If yes, I think I should made a dual-channel machine. 

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  12. I made some tools for leather projects, electric leather creaser is one of them. The French style electric leather creaser is expensive, more than $1100 if you need 5 iron tips. It's not affordable to me, so I made a creaser for myself. It's affordable and with more functions than French style one.  It only takes around $300 to get a set with machine, handle and 5 iron tips.

    If you are interested, you may visit my store to get more information. https://www.etsy.com/listing/691160733

    Here are some features of the creaser:

    ★ Real-time Temperature Control and Display
    ★ Date and Time Display: month, date, day, time.
    ★ Auto-Sleep/Awake and Auto-Turn On/Off: 

                A vibration sensor is integrated in the handle. Based on the vibration detection, 
                the creaser machine could sleep/awake or turn on/off automatically. 
                User could set the idle time before the machine goes to sleep or turn off automatically.
    ★ Common Temperature Remember and Switch:
                User could set several frequently-used temperature for leather project, and 
                Switch between the preset temperatures by clicking or double clicking the shortcut key.
    ★ Configurable Shortcut Key:
                Configure the shortcut key to: turn off; sleep; switch temperature compensations and preset temperatures.
    ★ Handle with Elegance an Simplicity, Equipped with Heating Unit, Vibration Sensor and Temperature Sensor. 
    ★ Easier to Crease Thanks to Shorter Heating Unit

                The exquisite heating unit is much shorter than French-style heating unit, 
                which makes the iron tip closer to the handle and results in easier and more accurate creasing operation.

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  13. Hellow everyone,

    I'm a new memeber from Knoxville, TN. I start my leather projects from 2012. I don't have sewing machine, but love to stitch by hand. All my projects are for my wife, my family, my friends, and of course several for myself. I also DIY some tools for leather craft which were not afordable for me. I find this forum a great place to share experience, learn from others and ask questions. I'd like to join the forum. I attached pictures of several of my projects.

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    (The bag is for self use only.......)

     

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