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If you still need a pattern, I'm fairly certain Leather Secrets has one in it. I've been meaning to go make some copies of a few patterns in it and I can mail you a xerox. Sorry, but I still don't know how to use a scanner so you'd have to wait for regular mail.

Well I picked it up today. It's a model D. Turns out it was just extremely heavy dust on it and outside of needing a good sharpening, it's ready to go. Thanks for your help.

Thanks, man. I'll give it a more solid going over before putting down an offer.

I recently came up with an opportunity to make an offer on a landis 30 at the boot repair shop i go to that he had buried and neglected. Now, being that it seems to be a pretty simple and bullet proof machine, I'm using neglected in the loosest terms. Sitting for a couple decades, covered in what appears to be the runoff from a leather grinder and with a dull or even bad blade. I know this is a pretty broad question, but I don't want to insult the guy. Then again, he may think he's got the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow sitting there, so I also don't want to waste my time trying to haggle if his number is silly. Thanks for any help.

I appreciate the advise, and the help. I'm sending the dough off for you today. Aaron.

Thanks man. I appreciate it. I'm gonna give those a try, though i really just want to wax my own thread. But for just 3 bucks to check out all the stock, well hell, I guarantee they've got something I like. Thanks again.

I've had it with crusty, gooey, prewaxed thread and am moving on to something different. However, I'd like to try out the Barbour 3, 4 and 5 cord to get an idea of what each is like before I buy an entire $45 roll of one. I thought I'd give buying some small amounts from a member a shot. Also, the current run of things I've been doing are more light duty things, so I don't necessarily need to use the heaviest duty stuff these days. In fact, I'm trying to make the sewing as unobtrusive as possible, as opposed to a major point of note like I've been using it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I've been having a lot of trouble with things with initials on them. I want to use an oppossing color, but every time I hit the belt with a finish, and I've tried several now, it wipes off the color. I've even been trying using dye to paint the letters, but the eco-flow stuff wipes away, and my Tandy store only has 3 colors of oil dye, and even then I can't do any outline in any actual colors. It also does it, to some extent, to my antiquing. I know that spraying is an option, but from what I've gathered, a lot of finishes crack when sprayed on. So please, let me know what I'm missing here. Thanks, aaron.

It's funny. Bill Clinton's crowning achievement during his term was the passage of NAFTA, by all actual definitions the most conservative agreement in America since, well, ever. He couldn't push through socialized healthcare, he didn't cost us any money in wars, and the dot-com bubble was in full effect, thanks to freemarket speculation. Outside of balancing the budget in part due to a big ole tax on upper incomers, NAFTA was one of the few big policies he pulled off. He was waaaaay more conservative than Bush. Being a republican today is certainly as liberal as being a democrat. Cheney didn't control Bush, they shared the same interests. And both of them, through extremely liberal policies, are guaranteed to be rich beyond our wildest dreams regardless of what the economy does. And those policies do things like put independent leathercraftsman out of business through nickle and dime laws like the one this post is about, in order to protect the interests of people like them. And those people aren't conservatives either. They will cry about the maintenence of a free market in America, though they are hardly american at all, but take subsidies and lobby for a law like this one. The point is that this thread turned into a bunch of MEDIA influenced rhetoric, when it is about the passage of a law that is meant to hurt everyone on this board with it's passing. I don't like steel shot either. But that isn't the point of this thread. If we lived in a world of whiny DEMOCRATIC liberal policies, as you imply, there would be gays married, socialized healthcare (and not a bunch of 'just wait and see...'), banned smoking, good public schools, no guns, tons of progressive taxes and no cool cars. If it were a totally REPUBLICAN liberal country, we'd have no constitution left except for the protection of arms and a bunch of new ammendments, no abortions, no habeas corpus, a fresh war every month, religious propaganda in every public institution, tons of recessive taxes, and drilling everywhere(protecting a national park isn't liberal. changing laws to sell it is). The one thing both of these parties agree on is protecting the interests of the people who PAID to get them in office. Not the ones who voted. So there will always be laws like this one getting passed (79-13). Calling people names based on a media-induced stereotypes shows somebody has a side as far as republican or democrat, and may get some 'i heard that's, but it doesn't say anything about understanding that this law was a gift to us from our friendly chinese importing companies and liberal lawmakers on both sides. Here's an article fron the PIRG website about the BIPARTISAN bill. Also, notice that Ted Stevens is the liberal republican who threw in the ATV part of the law. Thank goodness we have republican senators to protect us from ourselves too, right? Here's an excerpt from the release from the bi-partisan lead sponsors, Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Ted Stevens (R-AK), and Susan Collins (R-ME). Sorry, no link, I can't get on the senate servers: "The CPSC is crippled under budget restraints, mounting imports and thousands of new products entering the marketplace. As a result, we've seen endless recalls and unnecessary deaths and injuries," Pryor said. "My legislation allows parents and the CPSC to fight back against the tide of dangerous toyconference action in order to produce a solid, aggressive bill for President Bush to sign." "I thank Senator Pryor and Senator Stevens for their leadership in negotiating this bipartisan compromise bill. S. 2663 authorizes the appropriate level of resources and provides the new authorities necessary for the agency to do the job it was created to do: protect consumers," Inouye said. "Children are dying and suffering grievous injuries because of unsafe products. This legislation directly addresses the weaknesses of our nation’s product safety system and is a good step forward in our effort to keep harmful products off of store shelves." "This important legislation will provide the Consumer Product Safety Commission with the tools needed to better protect American consumers," said Stevens. "The measure sends a strong message that when it comes to our children, safety comes first. I am especially pleased that the bill includes my provision to protect users of all-terrain vehicles by requiring both domestic and foreign ATV companies to comply with the same basic safety standards and sales practices." "Toy safety has made a giant leap forward with the Senate's approval of this bipartisan bill to strengthen the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission. This bill will help the federal government better detect and prevent threats to our children before, not after, toys reach store shelves," said Collins. s and products. It provides new safety safeguards that emphasize resources, accountability, disclosure and testing -- from the factory floor to the store shelves. I appreciate the broad, bipartisan support behind this bill and will work toward swift

"Yes, the media is liberal for the most part. OK, the guy that owns it is rich, so?" This is the kind of dismissive thing you have to do to live in the black and white world of conserative and liberal. And you're wrong. The owner is everything in business. Bill Gates is Microsoft. Richard Branson is Virgin. Rupert Murdoch is the majority of media at this ponit. Also, whose been conservative in the last 50 years? Nobody. You don't get a trillion dollars in debt in 8 years being conservative. You don't get the patriot act by being conservative. Now being conservative means a belief in Lazes-faire economics. And that's not exclusive to republicans. Clinton gave us NAFTA. Do you know what other successful and thriving nations in the history of man also practiced unregulated national economics? NONE OF THEM. Do you know how many of the countries that currently milk our country of it's GNP practice lazes-faire economics? NONE OF THEM. So the idea of liberal and conservative that the media has fed to the type of people who say things like "liberal media" and "elitist left" is a cheesy myth. The reason we are losing all of our rights is because it makes good economic sense for the people who are actually making our choices for us, corporations. Not even American ones! The reason that people are bugging us about lead is because there is an actual ecological problem that can't be handled because it isn't economically viable. So we pay the price with this 'chairs off the Titanic' type legislation. A company that dumps more lead into a creek in a week than all of the ATV's and chinese toys in the world could match is never going to do anything. And the bummer is that so many people have been suckered into believing that the reason is because it's the companies freedom to do so. Wrong. Believe it or not, corporations are not actually people! A person can't destroy a whole city or lake or government. So corporations get their own laws and aren't supposed to be free like us. They're just a business. It's just that there's not much of a lobby for small time toy manufacturers and people who make bow quivers and SCA belts. And I'm no tree hugger, but if you actually want to go with the idea that there aren't drastic ecological consequences already being payed and that all of the scientists in the world (who don't work for Exxon) are wrong, then never mind. Forget you because you've been too politicized to even not want to die. Not dying is not a Republican or Democratic or American idea. Eh, I'm sorry. I joined this site for fun and this ain't. I just let politics riun my fun... again. I'm gonna go look at pictures of guitar straps! Later.

This post got pretty far off topic, but I'm in! The media isn't liberal. Media is a multibillion dollar business. Rupert Murdoch, the second most powerful man in the busines world according to FORTUNE is the media. The people who work for the media are often liberal. But if you are getting to hear a reporter or columnist's opinion and it has a liberal slant, be assured that in the long run, it serves the purpose of somebody like Murdoch, or really the man himself. Noboy's been hearing jack shinola from the so called "liberal media" about a need to regulate the bank loaning system for the last 5 years. I guess the papers and news channels didn't get their liberal memo. Saying media is liberal is like saying a college is liberal. The teachers and students and janitors may be, but the people running the school are rich dudes and banks who are making BILLIONS of dollars. Liberal media? puhlease. As for this law, I'd bet my left one that hurting boutique-type businesses isn't only an afterthought, it is the actual purpose of the thing. The end result of this law isn't going to affect imported and dangerous crap, and the companies know it. It's gonna cost them a few hundred thousand more to eliminate the threat of grassroots competition. Remember what happened when people realized how screwed up genetically modified foods were and started buying more organic? The exact same things. Instead of affecting the huge companies who sell you dangerous foods, more regulations were put out to make farmers do more drastic and counterproductive things like more irradiating and adding more bacterias to the foods. These things were really meant to put the small guys out of business. An organic farmer isn't going to do these things and survive, and they know it. A small toy store or furniture maker or LEATHERCRAFTSMAN isn't either. Rest assured, if there is any real money to be made off of what you are doing, you are a target of exactly this wolf in sheep's clothing type of law. It isn't about sending tax money to the government at all, it is about getting rid of ANY competition for big businesses.

I saw this link a while back when I was looking for storage ideas. My garage has a wall that is adjacent to my bedroom and since my prime tooling hours on my days off are my wife's prime sleeping hours (I'm a bartender) I could never get anything done. Also, my garage if full of greasy automotive stuff and sawdusty woodworking stuff, so it's a bit messy for nice leather. Solution: build a shed. So now I have an 8x8 workspace/hideout in my backyard and get lots more done. It's still not finished, i.e trim, braces and locks, solid footing, but hey, what workspaces are. needs trim and paint I inherited about half of my tools from my grandfather. A lot of the stamps are made from nails or otherwise impossible to find replacements for, so I have to keep them mobile so when I stop for the night, I can pack them in the toolbox and take them into the house with me. just threw this one in cause it's a neat copy of an unpublished photo of Nudie and the King(he's not looking at him in the published one). My friend is Nudie's nephew and he gave it to me, and being that Nudie was a leather tooler himself, I thought it appropriate.