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That's where Sveta gets ahead: she's just posred a video on leather. ICanMakeShoes gets its supplies from JT Batchelor.

For something heavy, one might well tape it crosswise in a first layer, then lengthwise in the second. Let it go a bit oversize so you can trim it back where it meets the floor, for example. Add match-up marks along the seams, too, so when you reassemble you find both sides of the seam come out equal. It's fine to put tape on the leather to do this.

There appears to be end to little boys playing with their balls - I hear it's National Doughnut Week. I was complaining about Experts Beer Tossers earlier. Is there a Government Department for Silly Celebrations? Or does it all fall under the Department for Culture Media and Sport? C'mon Australia, your reputation for Everage behaviour's at risk.

The kind of thing which gets my goat is a headline like this, "https://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/19426699.beers-fly-euro-2020-england-denmark-game/", headlined as "Experts predict more than 350,000 pints will be thrown during the England match." Is there a University Doctorate in Pint chucking? Studious papers on optimal wind dispersion? Magnificent statues to someone like Fred Lanchester, a forerunner in aerodynamics? I'm a quarter Belgian, I was weaned on Belgian beer, so I'm not at all surprised, the best think to do with Burton Bathwater. One of my grewatest disappointments in life, to hear Stella was launching in the UK, with my taste buds primed for something crisp, another mouthful of pee. In fact, both threads share a common theme, marketing hogwash.

My late wife was Welsh, Welsh her official mother tongue (all to do with politics - it allowed the Principality to claim extra bonus points to have the language officially recognised in the International Civil Service). Anyway, she'd unnoticed turned it into a fly squatter. Which makes more sense than going around clobbering the studious. As it's Wimbledon Weekend, and the flying ants supposedly swarming, I'd like to widen the question as to hole-punching. In theory, having a solid mass simply builds up a wall of air ahead of it allowing the things to blast away to the side. In theory. In practice, do we have different schools as regards technique, the fast and furious vs the zen zappers, for example, bringing instant karma to the target? Anything to miss the bloody soccer. Actually, you know how a kind of calm settles over the world during an eclipse? It was much like that Wednesday, you could hear birds sing, no traffic. Until a roar came from the pub, which is a mile away. I live on Tottenham turf, so they were clearly able to raise kane. You have hurricanes in the US, they tell je they have Harry Kanr here. All I know is hurricanes soon disappear.

Takes me back to the first toddler steps in computing in the 60s, moving on from teletypes to pin-matrix printing, we didn't need to physically change a print head. The Golden ratio's 1:root2, = 0.7. It's also the proportion between the height of most CAPS and lower case. The hours I spent coding letters from graph paper! Now it's almost entirely vector, spline maths which barely in its infancy then.

That's because, being a believer in democracy, I'm a centreist, which places me somewhat to the left of your Democrats. It does not make me a Communist, however, any more than it makes me a Fascist. My first run in with the KGB was aged 11, it fell to my mum, former SOE, to instruct me in the protocols of State Security. What an 11 year old was doing correctly identifying a Head of a Russian State Industry in 1966 is another story: it was the start of the Fiat Lada theft, and the goon was his bodyguard. I've had frequent meetings with our security services down the years, because I'm rather good at their interest areas: the last time, they discovered the first thing I did was sign the local head of your Secret Service up. That's because I was dealing at Head-of-State level, in full view of and complete disclosure to half the Cabinet. Not for the first time, either, by a very long stretch. It's why I work in leather, it's grounding, in practical terms. Feet on the ground.

Just to elucidate. I'm a Veteran, not because I think I qualify, but because other veterans do. I put my precious hide on the line in the 70s, and did better still in the 1990s. I have no illusions whatsoever about the Communist Animal Farm of China, and this modern fad of differentiating the people from the Government is dumb beyond belief. If a couple of billion Chinese can't sort out the mess they're making, don't come bleating to me. I am firmly of the opinion that the polluter pays, which means China's corrupt balance of payments gets wiped out to pay for the global economic damage they did, on two counts, Covid-19 and flooding the ports in containers full of goods which cannot be delivered.

I was talking about society as a whole. It's no wonder the Internet is a scammers paradise, if this is what comes up when anyone tells it as it is. You also just joined my rogues corner.

This isn't "current level of China bashing", it's been common ground for grief at a diplomatic level for upwards of forty years now. They play on your cupidity.You cannot compete with a country which doesn't play fair with freely floating currency. The only thing you can do is slap trade barriers on them.

It must be said, with my economists hat on, it's insane the West has allowed price fixing to drive its own industries out of business. We had a severe reality check in the UK after the container tsunami destroyrd JIT, and extended the diy solution we found to the fentilator shortage to address other shortages.

There's one in Belfast. https://www.hackspace.org.uk/

Likely why they include the flex extension. Set it up to flail water for three hours, if it survives you'll know the bearings are OK. From the vibration, one wonders.

Different kind of sling, they were using ones cut from near the spine where one end wrapped around the fingers, the slug lay in the cup, and was whirled around the head until the slinger released the other end as a target came into range. The whistling alone was petrifying: it was copied in certain arrow-heads. His are more likely to be grown-up versions of kids's pocket catapults, powered by gym elastic. Some (the wrist rocket style) have enough range and lethality to make a red dot or laser sight an attractive addition. Joerg Sprave's YouTube channel takes it to a whole new level - he's working with some top Renaissance weaponry experts to clarify what a lifetime's training could do. Some of the archers skeletons show serious muscular deformations, as the weights they were pulling would make Olympic strongmen blench.

You folks should help Frodo and company on a mandala here, https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/96399-little-help-here/?tab=comments#comment-654914 They see the pattern but not the mantra, so force the flow.

One of the issues with the basic stampology is overstamping in the valley where the larger loops meet - it's a hurried solution rather than a meditative one. The original uses circular sectors, for example, suggestive of rainbows. The essence is a lotus flower, opening from a core: everything expands outwards without contention. Therefore, the inward-facing leaves are also wrong. It's a mantra, a meditative focus, and may be treated like a rosary, petal by petal, the pensive finding a path pertinent to them. For a clearer view, chakra knowledge may be helpful, or in the Hebraic tradition, sephiroths.

That's the thing about packing 600 years of history into a paragraph. Valois. The Council of Constance was a premeditated European Council convened by the Church between 1414-18 to sort out the new society: the Papacy was no longer a political puppet, but the moral authority, which was soon perverted. Agincourt happened in the middle of it, destroying French feudalist authority. The lactose-intolerant Pope Martin V was a stop-gap sop to the traditionalists, allowing a temporary return to how things were before charging off down a new path, where Popes weren't elected from a cosy clique of Roman famiglias: his successor Eugenius IV broke the Petrine line, as he was Venetian, therefore Marcine, and a Windesheim man into the bargain. The Lombard take-over which followed lost the support of Northern Europe, with Luther and Erasmus - both Windesheim men - leading a new Enlightenment which turned into Calvinist Puritanism, while secular power became increasingly dogmatic, leaving the Pilgrim Fathers no real choice but to flee into exile. It's much more complicated than that, if course, but essentially James I's Scottish Catholics were intolerable to them, and vice versa. A similar thing had been happening in the Low Countries. The Dutch revolt threatened Brussels, and Felipe II thought he'd succeeded in near-enough bankrupting the Flemish, until they had a breakthrough in gold production. There's no doubt about it, I've seen the receipt in the French Regional Archives in Lille: someone produced 40 000 mountons d'or! It forced the King's hand, so he had those responsible executed (the Counts of Hoornes and Egmont) for heresy and tried to go into production for himself; Prof René Taylor's Magia y Arquitectura (Siruela edition: the English translation misses the key appendices) cites his correspondence on the subject, repurposing the Escorial as the Third Temple of Solomon, with a decidedly alchemical orientation. The bloke responsible fled, and only resurfaces long afterwards, in 1618: he's destitute, but is soon back in funds, and does a demo before van Helmont: read up on that 1618 experiment, it's the birth of empirical observation. That the alchemist could only work in Brussels explains why the furore which swept Europe (Elizabeth I and John Deee, Rudolph II and the Prague experiments) got nowhere: there was key kit in Brussels. I've reluctantly had to accept the History of Science position that alquimia may have had something to it after seeing with my own eyes a bunch of Royal Arch masons working for London's top gold refiners break through in medical practice: I think I've described the Platinol/Cisplatin history, haven't I? The Philosopher's Stone, catalytic platinum. This is the common ground of the Royal Society: Newton wrote twice as much on it as he did on physics. It's why he became mixed up in the Royal Mint. Thus far, I can see how you transmute an atom of Hg (AW80) into Au (AW 79), you strip the electron shells away and add an anti-proton. Fine now, but in 1568? The two processes of Alchemy give a hint: Wet Path used conventional wood-firing for a year (Felipe jests that he has a forest needing clearing!) whereas the new Dry Path, just a month. The Law of Conservation of Energy implies the latter process would be twelve times as hot as a wood fire, which is in the 200-300°C bracket: 3000°C is a plasma temperature, needed to strip the electron shells. I'm now tinkering with Heisenberg determinism to see if the philosophic side of the corpus could supply the quark package needed. I know exactly what the power source was, the only source of electric power before Faraday. I'll leave you to puzzle that one out, it explains why chest capacitors date back that far.

I was toying with such a suggestion, Pastor, but felt unable to advise on local materials. He's followed a hint from the Boss to pick up where I left off< @seasidesunflower. Once you have your pattern panels drafted, you need to test them against the real thing. That's usually done with cheap materials, but I had no good local suggestions. Once you've discovered what can be improved, alter your patterns, copy them afresh (noting variant #s on the parts so you don't get them mixed up), and repeat. Don't forget leather is thicker than fabric, of course.

I am a historian, on the edge of the Warburg Institute, the world's leading research establishment into the Renaissance, because I spotted something that had been missed. Sometimes history's a game of billiards. The Han Chinese get about as pissed off with the Goths as the modern Chinese are with the Uighurs, and instead of genocide, kicked them out. Socially disrupted, they broke apart as a tribe into hardcore goths, Eastern Goths (Ostrogoths) and Western Goths (Visigoths). The latter moved too fast for Rome, but were culturally accretive, as they had little of their own other than sourdough and yoghurt. Accidentally demolishing the Western Roman Empire by destroying its civil administration when the sacked the place in 425CE, they eventually settled as the Catalans, and still cause problems of a distinct tribal identity in Spain and France. That left the Eastern Roman Empire, and a West which wasn't as anarchic as thought 50 years ago. Strong leaders developed family identities, and found themselves repeatedly challenged by nomadic incursions. A major one was the rise of Islam, taking over Spain and threatening central France, which led to the Crusades: the Church was pretty good at eugenics. However, in 1348 a pandemic arose which devastated the population, weakening its economy to the point where plague and a power struggle in France destroyed the economy. Self-help created a new middle class, printing destroyed the authority of the Church, but along the way, it fought back. The Council of Constance allowed new research to replace the old mixture of celtic and christian creed, creating the Protestantism you know in America. They attempted to distract Western Europe by taking on the Ottoman Turks in a projected Crusade to defend Holy Roman Empire lands along the Danube, but the oddest of things threw the plan off course. The Papacy had been reduced to a French puppet in Avignon, Rome was a ghost town, but not everyone accepted French Valois writ: they made their own Popes. The sort-out replaced all the rivals with someone expected to snuff it quickly, which didn't work because the nuns caring for him identified lactose intolerance, switched him to goat's milk, and he lived long enough for the plans to come unstuck. The Valous recovered from Agincourt, and instead of trooping merrily off to the Carpathians never to be seen again (this was the age of Vlad Drakul), they revived the old punch-up around Orléans. That left the Lombard finance pissed off, so they took control of the Church (the Medici and Borgia Popes) who in turn annoyed the Northern European freethinkers. That spun the wilder extremists off to Plymouth Rock, while alchemical breakthroughs in Brussels led to gold fever in monarchy, and modern Chemistry (and if you dob't velieve me, read up on Jan van Helmont's 1618 breakthrough experiment. The UK was fastest in putting monarchy back in its box, and thus we have modern So when you talk of local view, you do exactly what Europe did in the 1430s, you take your eye off the wifer picture. Both are necessary. If you can thrive locally everywhere, you create a rising tide which floats all boats. Just control the evil "geniuses" who aren't, and want the whole shebang for themselves.

The simplest approach on pattern making is to cover your subject in cling film as a separator, then silver gaffers tape as the moulding agent, finally draw the panels on with a sharpie. Lift or cut the mould free and cut the panels. Transfer them to paper, addi seam allowances for sewing and then to card - I plasticise it. Those are then your cutting masters. Use darts and fillets to allow for curves - a dart with cut-in curved sides will follow the curve into a 3d-curve, but check the length of both sides matches. Check if the block's magnetic - you might be able to add magnetcs to hold the cover in place, both at the edges and centre. Obviously, you don't want the entire shebang sliding into the driver's footwell at any time.

This is a basic circular one. often they'd be rinforced with a citcular base, sewn into the centre. The downside with this pattern is everything falls out if you let the drawstring go!

Look for SCA aumonieres. Any turned pouch will work, usually in suede. Just make sure the mouth is large enough for your hand. Simplistically, take a 10" x 6" rectangle, reinforce one long side with a 1" band of 3oz tan sewn on, and pierce for eyelets at 1.5" intervals. Sew the ends together with the band inside so you get a cylinder, and sew the other long edge to an appropriately sized roundel of leather. 3 1/2" should do, as long as you trim the surplus off once sewn. Turn right way out, add a lace. A rectangular belt pouch also works. Again, a bog-standard gusseted bag.

Not quite, there's a video on a rolled handle thread on here, but you get the drift.

Yup. What you'r doing is reducing it to tabs, but if the material's good to hold at 1-1.5mm intervals alomg the stitching line, it's good to hold to within that transversally, too.

I quite understood that. From track record, I'm pretty sure they know their way around the weaving world elsewhere, and so would know who covers this locally to there. We'll see.