nstarleather

Yeah that $80-$100 a hide for Essex. Latigo Horween is on there…

PM me for the list to be emailed ...if you need it Leather March 2024 .pdf

Yeah I certainly didn't comment with any expectation of a free fob die...

I wouldn't call it a "scam"... they said "I’m considering sending out free keychain cutting dies to a few interested leatherworkers. " Which is quite a bit different than "if you give me feedback, I promise to send you a die"... But I do agree that it is a little deceptive. Just my two cents!

Hey folks, I have a decent lot of this blush Blarney leather from Seidel Tannery. It has a peachy pink color with a white back. 5-5.5oz roughly. Probably have around 300 feet of it. Only $1.50 per foot plus shipping from South Carolina. It’s a nice leather just not a color that I have a lot of use for. Lightly corrected. Somebody wants to make me an offer on all of it. We can also do that.

So the machine is ancient… like older than me. I’m 43… Which is why I guess the machine is probably Italian or American because that’s what was around back then. I doubt it’s metric just because of the spacers I have seemed to correspond to inches and fractions of inches. What you say about the tolerance is adding up makes sense, I think I’m going to see if I have a 1.5” spacer, and if it lines up with one 1 inch spacer and two 1/4” we sold a lot of belts last year, so I’m not terribly worried. I was just curious, as if it was normal or not… apparently there’s a lot of variation in machines.

It's not often but more often than you'd think...

I've got like 3 sets of blades all the same...unless some ancient ones were different...machine is super old. Yeah I compared some other blanks and it seems legit but I wanted to find some confirmation...strangely haven't seen the discussion before.

No I haven't but they're all the same, which wouldn't be the case with wear. I've got dozens of different spacers: 1/8",1/4", 1/2", 1", 1.5" etc...all come out to slightly narrower I can't imagine it's not on purpose.

Hey everyone...this is something that comes up from time to time with customers that my 1.5" and 1.25" belts area actually narrower than those measurements. When I set up the stripper to cut the width that's just how they come out. My dad has always said it's because it's meant to work with buckles so they don't rub. Is this kind of a standard thing or is my machine weird? You can see my machine is se up with 1" and two .25" spacers.

Almost all of my dies are custom. In general I get either .75" high but when I go really big for my double headed clicker I do 1.25" I currently have two suppliers one who makes wood filled steel rule dies which are generally less expensive and another who will do either all metal welded or fully forged. In the past my wood filled supplier was cheaper but now steel welded has only been slightly more expensive for simple dies. I don't hand stitch so we don't need holes usually but when we do they tend to add a lot to the cost. Depending on what I'm "asking the die to do" as in how much stress it's going to be under (thick material, narrow area, complex bends, etc) I've found some wood filled dies don't hold up well at all. I don't make a whole lot of dies for own products, these days 90% are for when I have a wholesale account asking for a product.

No idea! I’ve not worked with those besides ostrich.

If I were you I'd try to sell as a lot and include it as a freebie (and maybe not even mention in the description).

Yep you did it! Pattern seems the same!

Sea turtle? Interesting! Seems plausible.