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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.

a Nebraska corn husker

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/

very purdy indeed! How did you do the grips?

Thanks yes it rides real nice, I'm going to finish tuning it up a bit and check the bearings and such. It appears Wheeler makes some high end stuff the road bikes are all carbon fiber now didn't look much farther small fortune to get one i'm sure. This thing shows my age for sure it has a kevlar seat why i have no idea i guess they wanted a guys ass to wear out first lol.

Thank you! lol it took less than an hour to get them both working, I used brake cleaner then air then some pb blaster over and over about 6 times while working them. I figure if i can rebuild a holley double pumper then i could manage these but didn't have to. They work like new now. i read they were hard to service and about a dozen posts suggesting wd 40 might work or one guy in the whole US who can repair them lol. you can check out my $8.47 bike in the all about us section and off topic if you like.

i picked this up yesterday afternoon on a curbside free pile before it went to the dumps. Literally 1 hour to pull the brake/shift levers off and clean them up aired up the tires and she is good to go. Another fine example of making things far to complicated those brake/shift levers are far to complicated for the average folk to fix i guess that makes me the lucky one lol. I was worried then i realized all the online fix it info started with spray wd40 in it sometimes that works. Wd 40 is the worst crap in the world, so Brake cleaner and air it was then some pb blaster, more brake cleaner, air, pb about 6 times and they work perfectly. I did order some new tape so my new to me bike cost me $8.47. I'll finish the tune up later today i'm going ridin.