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I daresay a day of glue stiffener doesn't go amiss...

I've been looking at the design philosophy of the machine, and it's not the tender child you think. One description has it almost a pioneer ox-cart machine, easily demountable and quite capable of surviving a wagon trail. Maybe you should discuss a partial disassembly with your customer, if it's truly so simple. The issue may be that where standard metalwork comes into contact with tank armour (or the equivalent!) a shear point is created which disappears if the normal bits are separated. Left to itself, anything hitting the tough stuff in transit will pay the price: what you don't want is someone using the hefty bits to land on top of the rest. We've all seen it in airports, that's a cello case, let's drop a bag full of golf clubs on it.

It's not so much the sweep as the ceiling collapse on the backswong. In between, some girlie type fixes him fast and small. You can see the cops' reaction now, "we're going to need a bigger van"

I've been in logistics in my time, where are you sending it? In general, it's wiser to ask a local company to the recipient, because then the only problem's going to be right at the start - local knowledge pays dividends. I was watching a German test DHL last night sending Airtags to North Korea - they werefull of it, but one went to South Korea, the other as far a Peking, where its brother caught up with it, and were blocked because North Korea's stopped imports, ostensibly because of Covid, but really because they're skint. Someone else was trying UPS - and dismantled the logic of their claims system.

"In business for several years" is almost a definition of insolvent. Their start-up capital's invested, they're not big enough to be thoroughly stable yet. On the other hand, my daughter's bff has just had a call to interview two months after closure.

In principle, yes, but in practice you'll find the width of the knife doesn't offer you the full width of bevel. The answer's to extend it with bevel punching: a 5mm and a 10mm beveller with a light (<1kg) soft-head mallet will suffice. That will impose working in veg tan only on you, and learning to case the leather, which wouldn't be so necessary in plain knifework.Don't forget a sharpener for the knife, and edge polishing/finish. Many might use antiquing to bring out the bevel fully, too.

You have to smile at them still using non-standard sizing to force their customers loyalty!

Only if your feet are standard and they fit that standard. I have extremely wide feet, so spend too much time showing ignorant salesfolk I cannot wear their shoes. Others have thin feet. I'd have to go up about three sizes to get a standard width to fit, and they don't make shoes that long! Plus the trip danger is loke wearing a clown's shoe. I'm fully aware you ladies have a culture only beaten by the Chinese bound feet for forcing your plates* into shoes which are halfway between physiologically crippling and demonstrably masochistic, but there's no need to encourage it! This wasn't an issue when all shoes were cobbled, but since plastic injection, I have to travel halfway across London to find a shop which sells gym shoes which fit. They, on the other hand, can barely handle me because my feet just aren't crazy enough. My venturing into the area is part of learning how to adapt shoes to my needs. *Plates? I was raised in cockneydom. Plates o'meat, feet.

"Scalpel?" "Scalpel." "Swab?" "Swab." "Saw?" "Saw." "Doctor, the patient's coming round" "Hammer?" My mum's family has a soubriquet in French all of its own. Call someone a tire-dents, a tooth-puller, and it's an invitation to sort things outside, right now. it comes from about five-times great grandfather Claudius Ash, who was a battlefield surgeon at Waterloo, and relieved the dead of their teeth once the no longer needed them. Soldiers were generally fit and young, so their teeth became the world's first commercially available false teeth.

It's actually called a liripipe, and combines a scarf in the tail, which doubles as a long pocket. And guess who has one and uses it? It can even be rolled into a hat!

Use it with a crochet hook to chain the loops together. The last stitch is pulled right through the previous loop to lock the rest.

Just keep the heat moving around.

Now expand that vertically. Three feet tall or more.

I was trained as a buyer by a major engineering company in the 1970s, at the start of the digital age. We knew what we authorised would take a lot of beating, but lacked the resources to do the intensive usage testing a manufacturer should do. So our criteria was tougher: Friday afternoons was football time. If it could be destroyed, we'd destroy it. The issue was how long it survived: if it shattered at the first glance, then no. But if it was robust enough to survive unreasonable abuse (ie the worst Murphy's Law might dish out less deliberately) then perhaps. That might apply to anything - so don't expect to get it back pristine. It might be they don't want to see how it survives being dragged through a flood. You never know.]

The original idea goes back to the seventies for sure, likely older, someone took a knife to a bath sponge, stuck a chunk in some florists wire and span it closed in a hand drill. Now you can get craft EVA and upholstery foam, you can likely carve to shape.

You're setting a guide price for the finished product, remember. Is the market there to pile 'em high, sell'em cheap, or are you able to go for premium pricing? Or in between?

The reason not to go for a hammer when tooling is because the butt end of punches aren't hardened - it starts to mushroom them, making control harder. Nylon-headed mauls are the next softer, but given we're leather-workers, make our own! 4" rawhide, soaked and rolled tight, with the end skived, glued and nailed in place. One dry, an appropriate auger drill to bore out the centre to take a wooden handle. Proops on Etsy do no end of stuff, including Dremel slickers, at excellent prices. I remember them in the pre-internet days when they had an Aladdin's Cave on London's Tottenham Court Road - the occasionally still surface at engineerong exhibitions. I've just spent the morning with my groover - the downside is that you need one of the smallest drills known to man to clear the clogs. But it does leave a nice-looking channel on surface-died veg tan.

I've been thinking about that gold work. It looks painted, but there's no reason not to venture into gold leaf. It's not expensive, because it's white gold squeeved incredibly thinly.

Japanese waterstone to keep your blades sharp, 2000 grit, $40

Batchelors have more business than they know what to deal with, mostly telephone. They don't need the Internet. But USD1000 for a setting tool? Someone's taking the michael. I can't remember where mine came from, but it was a couple of quid. A quick search threw any number on ebay and etsy, "screw oblong eyelets" - pick your size and finish!

A chapman was Ebay on legs. Anglo-Saxon Cheapan = to sell, as in London's Cheapside, the old City market. You never really knew what he'd have, for one thing, but mostly stuff you wouldn't likely be able to produce locally.

No, because it still comes back to the basic question of marketability of certain products, things Etsy bans. Unless and until controlled availability is taken seriously everywhere (ie never, because there will always be some fool who knows better), it's hopeless to have it otherwise. I've just been explaining the international legal context, which is not that of the heyday of the cowboy. In the 1930s, what was suggested was true: it led to war, so the ground rules were changed. Sales control could come up in other areas, too, the risqué end of leatherwork, for example.

No, the Vienna Convention has. That's the UN and ICJ, the basic mechanism for diplomacy. You sign a treaty, you stick with it unless ALL signatories agree to dispense with it (eg Treaty of Brussels 1954). One party cannot ditch it unilaterally just because it doesn't suit. This is why the ICJ exists, to decide if a State has cause for complaint against another, and what a just solution should be. The US won't remain a world leader very long if it starts cowboying around, I assure you. Brexit didn't dump a treaty, it used Article 50 in the Treaty to withdraw, in due and proper legal form. There's a difference. The EU's German President has a very legalistic outlook, and a distinct dearth of practical experience. She had to be moved out of harms way after she f'ed up her previous job, Defence Minister, by leaving her Army without boots for years. So you may well find dear Ursula's the perfect person to take the US to the ICJ. It might not get her very far, certainly, but it'll give Russia a right belly laugh in response to the US interfering with their pipeline deal. References to Canada are not far away. Again, the reason the Vienna Convention was created was because your suggested policy was becoming commonplace. This is why your Security Services lined up behind General Milley in January, he talked of a Reichstag moment. That was very much Trump's advertised intent, and could have happened, had the Pretorians backed it. The thought of a new Fuehrer, which would have had most of the rest of the world in kittens had it happened, was clearly ludicrous to all but his hardcore devotees: his retreat to the bunker had many of us thinking of the same precedent. The world has moved on, and that kind of person isn't fit to lead a horse, let alone the world. He's a throwback, and he knows it. Me? I was 20 years, give or take, a senior staffer in the European State Department, and I'm the only spouse in 70 years to meet the standard set by the Rosenberg Interdict. Seriously. We held Germany's reins from 1945-1990, until such time as the Nazi party had become history. The UK outlaws such bodies routinely, making it a criminal offence to be a member. The US should consider doing likewise: there's plenty of precedent in the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and what could be more un-American than trying to overthrow the Constitution by force?

It was rather more an idea to get you started, in fact. I'd expect someone like someone like Leprovo or JT Batchelors could offer a better price locally to me, but I don't know what shipping costs to you would be like, which is why I was asking what your experience is. Some people do a screw version with a more solid washer plate and very small screws, too, which would avoid a setter: two round punches and cut along a straightedge.

It's an oblong eyelet/gromet. https://stimpson.com/grommets-washer-overview/oblong-grommets-and-washers/ A slightly wider hunt shows Ford Millinery using them in hats, so someone has them. Which countries are feasible?