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    Weird, I do both. Except on chrome tan, that is: chrome tan doesn't burnish well, so it's either just edge paint or folded edges for it .
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    So, your wallets have an "air pocket" inside then?
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    Another trick I've seen is to cut the pieces a wee bit (say ~1/8 - 1/16" larger) to make a "gluing allowance" which you then trim to the final size after gluing, in order to remove the bubbles, however small, of glue that tend to form at the edges, so that you can then burnish without issue.
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    Pretty cool.
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    Puppy.
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    Ethanol.
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    Cool. Thanks @Danne! What I've found is that with the KSB punches, if I punch the holes away from me the line remains straight; I have a greater chance of ending up with a crooked line if I punch towards me, as I do with the diamond punches.
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    Please describe your aligning method, because I had a helluva time getting straight lines with them when I first got them! I've found a way by now, but every now and then I still get the occasional crooked line.
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    Sinabroks? Mentioning it is probably a public service, specially if it's expensive.
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    In full agreement.
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    Flesh side of gusset. You might be able to see it in the image below—gussets are already folded along the groove, all ready to be glued to the back panel:
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    Don't think there'll be a consensus on "better". Me, I use KS Blade pricking irons and Seiwa diamond chisels, depending on the project. KS Blade makes diamond irons too. KS Blade products are not cheap, but they punch effortlessly through thick leather—no need to force needles through. My Seiwas are 4 mm and I use them for thicker thread (0.8 mm and up). They look unprepossessing, but perform flawlessly.
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    I get my stuff from Lonsdale Leather and Longview Leather, in Vancouver and Alta., respectively.
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    Are you gluing the pieces together before tracing the line and stitching?
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    I'd start with different leather, such as Butero or Minerva, heck even natural veg tan, to get the hang of wallet-making before you start breaking out the exotic, expensive leather.
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    Deerskin is not really something to use for wallets. It's too stretchy and even getting a clean, straight cut on it will be a chore, let alone get a line traced on it with dividers. The way I do wallets is to use firm leather, cut a clean and straight edge, and then use wing dividers to trace a line for the chisels. I don't recommend using an edger to create a channel—why, I don't recommend creating a channel in the first place. Wallets being small items, you need to use thin thread, say Tiger 0.6 mm, which will lay flat and flush once you hammer it: you don't need a channel.
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    Don't fear the gusset! If you make a groove with a race ~2 mm beyond the stitch line (that'd be 6 mm from the edge, assuming your stitch line is ~3-4 mm from the edge) and use a q-tip to moisten the groove and adjacent areas, you can bend the leather and make the gusset easier to stay in place and stich and prevent deformation on the finished product. Here's a pouch with no groove: Note how the gusset wants to be the flat part and bends the front panel. Horrid! Here's a pouch that was grooved prior to stitching: What a difference!
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    That's it! I'm not making any more watch bands! Mine look like crap. I'll just send them over to sensei Danne.
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    Haha! Yeah, when I discussed this issue with a friend of mine he mentioned some of the descriptions some sellers are using to describe their gun paraphernalia on etsy. I won't mention them here so as to not give them away, but they were, shall we say, entertaining. I decided against blockade running, though. I don't like to game the system nor live in tension I might be caught; and I also wonder if using the 'wrong' keywords also makes the items harder to find—unless you have a following, you'd want your stuff to be easily listed and found.
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    This is best taken up with the maker himself. He might not need dimension cues at all. Sometimes makers modify the files you give them a bit to fit their process. Again, the maker is the best person to discuss this with. Illustrator has options to print printer's marks when outputting to PDF. Basically, that's all the sizing cues a printer or maker needs. This is said dialog box in version CS4:
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    That's good to know. Thanks.
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    Yep, that's what I did: I dumped Etsy. Their "slings ban" is just a ridiculous piece of woketardness. Not even in Canada, which has some of the most stringent gun laws in the world, are slings a forbidden or even restricted item—anyone can buy them; only for the purchase of actual guns or ammunition is a PAL required. As for holsters, they're not sellable in Canada: people are not allowed to carry guns here.
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    Noticed you're a compatriot. Can you sell outside of Etsy?
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