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lol I'm on it! post a pic when your done.

yup!!

Thats the bamboo i was thinking about, maybe we need to have a flyswatter building competition lol.

the cleaner is equal parts water, alcohol, and window cleaner/ windex make sure the window cleaner has no ammonia. after painting wipe out your paint cup best as you can, then add a bit of cleaner and hold you r finger over the spray nozzle and shoot the gun, it will bubble back through the paint cup and clean it then dump that refill and spray it through till clean. it may take a few times but only uses an oz or so.

No i sell locally mostly by word o mouth now there are also a couple consignment shops i put stuff in. lol, i sell all kinds of stuff, wood work, knives and leather goods mostly. But i'm not trying to make a living just adding to a retirement. It really sucks to have major companies put people in the situation we have now.

Thanks! i use a 5 gallon bucket called my garbage can, and some homemade cleaner, found the recipe online, its not a big deal to clean at all some folks here buy a few of the cheap airbrushes and use them for specific stuff like dyes or finishes.

but , but , but thats inhuman, or so we are told.lol

So now i guess its up to you if you continue to do business with a company that doesn't believe in the Bill of rights or your rights as a US citizen. I know I've lost money but dumped Fakebook because of it never used etsy.

bamboo would work well for the handle, then maybe a flap of leather that wraps around the rod then that would be wrapped tightly with thread or string. What no open borders?

it sure puts down the dye nice and even you wont be disappointed at all. If you have the compressor you are over half way there. One thing i did learn from this site is to use low pressure i use about 5 /10 lbs now and its amazing.

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lol yea should have asked how it works.

thanks yes they do especially in the sunlight. I should have taken it outside but its still a secret lol.

Thanks! i airbrush in my room, I dont do a great lot of work though so its not a real problem, some folk make an airbrush station with a ventilation system, ive seen them made out of cardboard and a computer fan lol. I have a basic paashe air brush and a harbor freight compressor. The compressor about $150 the air brush about $50 of course you can go higher or lower on both.

Well only one more birthday to go this year lol. A sketch book cover and pencil set for my number three daughter. I airbrushed it black then went over it lightly with some blue, green , and purple iridescent paint. Inside is chocolate pig suede.

Now thats funny right there!

Both are very nice!!

"i would consider him a success because he is a good business man"

man i want one so bad, do they work well? whats the range?

nope not to me. Yes it can be called handmade But then it will only be worth whatever a customer is willing to pay for that strap of leather with rivets. When i buy handmade i tend to think of the time a person puts into creating that piece of themselves that goes out to the world to see. Mr Lentz has great products compared to mass produced stuff but i would consider him a success because he is a good business man not a necessarily a good craftsman a monkey or a machine could put his stuff together.

awesome i was wondering just the other day if that would work, you may have some redneck tendencies lol. And a clicker press and rivet gun and you could be turning out "genuine handmade flyswatters" lol

i think a greek border.

there are a couple of very good Stohlman books on pictorial carving in the tandy library website. They are free ebooks . https://tandyleather.com/blogs/leathercraft-library/tagged/ebooks

Years ago about 1970 or so my brother in the air force stationed in the Azores had a pair of boots made for my dad. Even the heels were stacked leather i assume made by hand, the only thing they had to work with was a line drawing around dads feet and a picture of the boots he wanted. The boots fit like a glove when he got them and were his prize possessions. I am sure the shoe maker is long gone as is my dad and i dont know if he used machines or not but IMO they were handmade. AS are the ones in the video even though machines and even rubber heels are used you just cant get that quality from a mass producer. Funny though on belts for example if i had one handstitched and one machine stitched, only difference, i wouldn't call them both handmade. i would call one handmade and one hand crafted.

Here in the US the push for socialized gubment dictated education has created the "EXPERT" syndrome , if you haven't bought you education and have a piece of paper to prove that then you just aren't an expert. The old saying c's get degrees is more used now than ever i think. You will notice on here even the young folks all want to hear form the 'Experts". If you told most of them you were in a guild they wouldn't even know what that really meant with out googling it. Just my opinion. So in my google travels this morn i found this site. They do awesome work ,with machines, and use the term handmade What do you all think? https://www.theazweekend.com/stewart-boot-company/