Rahere

The family's double-weave looms are in the Welsh Weaving museum now. We have the cwrthens safe. I'll be going past London's Handweavers Gallery tomorrow, I'll ask them if they've any idea.

You get just two out of three things in this world: speed, beauty, and low-cost. The obvious example is a high-maintenance partner. A highly-functional (beauty) cheap machine won't be fast. Which of the two are you prepared to yield for speed? Another more recent cause of cast-iron was the USSR's economic system, where quotas were defined by weight. The result was kit far heavier than necessary, to clear the quota so the factory could switch to making something profitable. A third is that leather-workers develop stronger muscles than tailors. So something that's frit (a wonderful Welsh word developing the idea of frightened into not man for the job) won't survive, we'll bend steel with our bare hands. As in making dies.

Impasto for the clods, steel wool surface print over blended base colours, and the impasto.

You may be confusing transport and on-site. You don't want to be digging a screwdriver out from under the seat once you arrive, so the issue becomes one of a place for everything and everything in its place for a visual check at the end of the day. Yet on the job, being tuckered up with kit you'll not need today is a pain: toolbelt hangers become the order of the day. One hand for you and one for the ship. Perhaps you also need a cartridge box for consumables.

You're on the way to a rolled handle, because although this looks sharp now, in the long run it becomes a mess. The issue with rolled handles is opening them out to become a tab. Much gentle skiving with an edge beveller id involved.

Try running it hair side down, less friction.

The original would likely have been steam-moulded for rigidity, from the flat.

I don't recall anyone taking a wider sewing allowance to glue in, then sew, and cut the SA away. That way you get the best of both worlds.

Well, tough, I've actually understated the truth. But tell you what, if you can't cope, hold that button over my name and select ignore. As I'm about to do to you. The medics have a code for your area, NFN. Normal for Norfolk. Try not to judge others by yourself.

While agreeing with @Hardrada on wallet leather being too thin to use an edger on, there's another issue to help on. Yes, keep it clear with a needle, but even more, keep it polished. Get some thick stiff leather, and cut a straight channel in it, quite deep. This matches the profile, so if you add polishing rouge to the groove and push the cutter in the opposite direction to normal, it'll polish and sharpen the edge.

Said dangerous clown's gone. He missed some important pointers, they're in the TKOR demo. My great granddad died cut in half when a hawser snapped, he was on a tug shifting a battleship in Portsmouth Harbour. Heavy engineering kit demands standards, not good-ole-boy tractors. This is what has caused around 150 deaths in Miami, My Dad, he wrote the ISO standard for pressure vessels used in the current and all likely future nuclear reactors. I've an honour to match. And zero patience with mouthy redneck farmers.

Doing. I was guided in voice by Sir Geraint Evans' wife, and passed it on to a fellow chorister who became the top Baroque coach of his generation, the choir we saved from Britten's buggering about produced Florence Welch, Ed Simons, and a long list of others.. I left to make a career which was capped by a decent share in the top gong known to man, and planned to return in retirement, aged 56. But the system was rigged in 1977, and is still out of control. It's typified by about £1.5 bn put into the music arts during this crisis: not a penny reached the performers. Why feed the monsters? These are Epstein/Weinberg clones. Before the lockdowns happened, I'd had it with them anyway: I'd made it to Stagecraft Mentor with London's Southbank (Royal Festival Hall), which then crashed because of financial stupidity, as did the LSO and several others. I've spent the last 15 months studying the psychology of trauma and failure, and right now, the UK's a potential bomb of resentment. Attunement's gone, we kicked ass over innoculations, and ventilators (thanks to work my father did guided by Prince Philip), we're doing fine at soccer, so empathy's zero. I'm not going to dive deeper in name-dropping, I'm hated enough already.

The only difference is in the priming. Because leather's hydrophilic, a water-based paint like acrylics isn't going to have any real issues.

This may be why I've given up music. The parasites trying to cash in, monetizing the art, thinking they own me.

Which also is a cheap source for 3-d printer feed materials, cuts down on recycling, etc etc.

You're missing the most essential part, the runner. It lives just between the rope and the strands, and stops twist doing odd things. It's most of the focus of the ropemaker. Start off with four hooks on rods long enough to serve as axles. They go through a bearing in the front plate, are held in place by a small gear, and through another bearing in the rear plate. A larger gear in the centre turns all four, contrary to the previous lay. At the other end of the walk is a trolley carrying a larger single hook the rope strands oomr together at. As the strands are twisted, they shorten, and so it the far end can't move, they'll break. The trolley's on rails, to keep things headed in the right direction, but often working under friction, to keep a tension on the rope. Another trolley, free-floating is in the middle, carrying the runner, sometimes called a pear, which is roughly shaped like an artillery shell, but with grooves in. This guides the twist to come together: the point faces towards the rope forming. If it's a cored rope, the pear will have a hole in the centre for the core to pass through. It may be spun itself, in which case a fifth hook lies at the bottom of the spinner rig, but not always: a circus tightrope (and slackrope) has a counterlaid core, which makes knotting it impossible: I came up with what is now commonplace, the use of a Swedish Tirfor jack, which suffenly took over the entire world of circus, because it speeded rigging enormously. My knowledge came from the Royal Engineers, the UK military: my family are naval engineers, I built my first aged 10. A naval ropeworks may be a mile long. As you'll see in the video, the thing shortens by about a third each time, so you might need to rig a reduction pulley off the far end before the counterweight.

Don't forget you're only spinning a single ply, you'll use ropeworking to take it to twine, and then further. The saving grace is it's got an 18" staple! My e-Spinner's actually got a throat-reducer and jumbo bobbins, as do a good few of the wheels.

I'm pretty sure that's residual European legislation, but not 100% sure. Last year, you couldn't even buy new horseshoes here, for precisely that reason - the Appleby crew did it all the time, without checking up on other symptoms. I'm about half a mile south of Charlotte Dujardin's stable, so we're not quite as bad as Newbury or Newmarket (US: Kentucky) but not far off. In any case, as a first-aider I made a practice of checking on more serious injuries after four days, you can see if infection's happening or it the matrix has settled.

There's a serious difference in size. A hoof's dead keratin nail, but live flesh is putting consuderable weight on it. That can cause what we'd call blisters, but are rather worse. The farrier'll have made a hole an inch across minimum, and deep with it: its not a flesh pad. He may decide to fill it with resin in a couple of weeks time, but right now he'll bekeeping an eye on the heal. He'd likely have wanted to have a look about now anyway.

You can get them over the counter in rubber these days. Don't forget he's in the south of France, valley country, but it can get dry in the summer.

There's no reason not to make your own. Tiranti.co.uk are sculptors materials suppliers, and their range includes a centrifugal casting machine, the Centricast, costing around $1200, maybe less, when tax is included. It's aimed at the home user pouting white metal, small items such as you describe.

Ask your farrier. He should be cutting a drainage channel so any gunk getting in there will drain. However, you have to be certain you've got it all or it will be back. You will find rubber covers on the market, rather than start kludging yourself, which may even be illegal. He may even tell you to keep her stabled for the 4-6 days needed for the open wound to come together, with a week more for a full heal.

You might find a silver pen would help transfering the pattern rather than cutting directly from the pattern, it allows you to see what's going on without the paper getting in the way. I also rework my patterns and laminate the cutting version in plastic, if there's any possibility I'll be doing alterations, so process stages are preserved.

There used to be a printing and bookbinding course at the Camberwell College of Art in London, which taught that skill. Shepherds in Pimlico sell the kit. Perhaps you could ask them. The closest I ever got was a hot point and tape.

The blue suggests French make. In the postwar years, paint colours in Europe were very limited, in Belgium mustard yellow, dull green and dull maroon, in France that blue.