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A leather scented soap might be just the thing for all those chrome tanned leathers which smell of anything but leather.

I should think that if you don't want to use any plastics of synthetic materials, wood is the way to go.

@fredk, Yes it could really be any type of canine species, isn't it? And, in spite of living in the US, I have not seem coyotes either. Like you, only from those cartoons. When I first saw road-runners though, I was so disappointed!

@toxo, Thank you. I plan to use them as much as possible. Maybe somewhere on the way, I will become reasonably good at tooling.

Fox it is then. I like how the person who made the stamp did not try to make the face symmetrical - gives it a charming, quizzical look. I know! Isn't it wonderful? I'm envious. To have the ability as well as the talent to make the stamps so well. They are really well made and the impressions are sharp and clear. Yes there are. A couple of unusual ones too, at least to me. I can't wait to use them... once it is less cold and I do not mind wet hands. Right now, I am busy shivering! Probably something similar. There are some large ones in this lot but some small ones too. I put the rubber bands to prevent them disappearing in that stand. On the large ones, to protect the carved ends when they are on the nail side. Those are really impressive - small and so well carved.

Up close, the animal is even more appealing. Coyote perhaps?

Here they are. The stand was included with them. This will go over several posts. Huh? Not getting uploaded, for some reason. Will try a while later.

It's cold in our area today. Cold enough that USPS says they cannot deliver due to dangerous weather conditions! So stuck at home but happy as, as I heard them say in Idaho, 'a pig in muck'. I love that phrase. So eloquent! Happy because I found a set of old hand made stamps - all carved onto nails of different sizes, including one that I cannot decide whether it is a coyote or a dog. In Evaporust right now. I'll put up pics as soon as I get them clean. really do not care whether they are old or vintage or from last year. Their value is in the fact that they are all hand-made. Someone made them, used them and took care of them and now I will do the same.

I started working on my sets of leather pieces and then realized that today and next week, the temperatures are going to be unusually low for this area and the leathers have not been exposed to such low temps. So I postponed my updates until after the temperatures rise to a reasonable level (for this area) next week. Let's see how they react to such temperatures. I will check on them when the temperatures are low as well.

I'm not sure I can do that. I got it on Amazon Vine and I am not sure I can expose its information until 6 months later. I will find out from Amazon.

No idea what this is. I think it is trying to be a replacement for Tokonole. I''ll try gum trag and see if it is the same.

@DieselTech I have no idea. I got it off Amazon Vine (who says no to 'free'?), and it shows no ingredients whatsoever. It smells chemically (is that even a word?) until I heat it. It is white, like Tokonole, only a bit less thick, not sticky or gummy. I have never used gum trag, so if that smells sweet, it could be. But this smell is sickly. Does gum trag smell sickly? The smell remained on my fingers until I washed it away with a stronger smelling soap! A non-scented soap did not work.

I just came across a burnishing gum that smells sweet whenever it gets warmed - so whenever it gets burnished, it releases the fragrance. When it cools, the smell disappears. I was wondering about what would happen if it were used on items that are exposed to the heat of summer outside - for example, if it is used on saddles and the saddles were used outside in the heat. There is no information about this happening anywhere in the product information section. Has anyone come across something like this anywhere else?

@bruce johnson, Wow! That is old. But the price is too steep at $150.00 I think. Especially as I have a surfeit of round knives! Let's see. If the price comes down, I might consider them, if someone else does not buy them first. Thank you for your input. It really helps.

Still using the above set for the ordinary kitchen knives - the ones I do not mind replacing. My Damascus knives? Especially the one that is truly layered and not painted or whatever is done to get those swirls? I do by hand. It takes time and is needed rarely, but too precious to risk on the roller. For ordinary kitchenware though, the rolling set that I have is great. And the price cannot be beat - 80%discount when I am being honest, 100% discount if I did not want to be!