Fred's ramblings

[fredk]

6 hours ago, SUP said:

Try stimming with a piece of veg tanned leather. 🙂 Texture, smell all help.

I had look yon up 

[SUP]

😄New word learnt. Couldn't pass up the opportunity to use it! 

[fredk]

@SUP  

To misquote Julius Caesar, venerunt, viderunt, laboraverunt, They arrived at 07.30 and away by 14.50, Very much quicker than I thought, By several days! I might get things sorted by Tuesday and get back to this properly. But in the meantime I've got to knock-up a new belt for #1 son

[fredk]

Still getting my leatherwork room sorted. Its been a good opportunity to tidy it up and put things in proper places!

and . . . I found an ice cold bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale on the bottom shelf of the fridge

It ain't there no more !   

Edited August 12 by fredk

[fredk]

Here's a wee item youse can whip up from a bit of scrap. Got an odd piece from cutting a belt to length?

A portable pipe rest for pipe smokers.

Sell it at fairs, stalls or where ever, or even give them away with your brand stamped on it

This one is about 19cm long x 3cm high and 2.5mm thick - cos that was wot I had. One snap, and one cover piece. Stamped and dyed

 

Keep to using a snap or such to keep the pipe rest thin so it can be carried in a pocket or baccy pouch. I tried a Sam Brown stud but that sticks out too much

19cm long + or - 1cm is about the right length. 3cm high is about right too

[SUP]

Looks like you got your workshop sorted out. 🙂

I like that pipe rest. So practical. Plenty of other uses for that pattern too, it is so simple and versatile. 

Incidentally, is that a new meerschaum? 

[billybopp]

2 hours ago, fredk said:

Here's a wee item youse can whip up from a bit of scrap. Got an odd piece from cutting a belt to length?

A portable pipe rest for pipe smokers.

Sell it at fairs, stalls or where ever, or even give them away with your brand stamped on it

This one is about 19cm long x 3cm high and 2.5mm thick - cos that was wot I had. One snap, and one cover piece. Stamped and dyed

 

Keep to using a snap or such to keep the pipe rest thin so it can be carried in a pocket or baccy pouch. I tried a Sam Brown stud but that sticks out too much

19cm long + or - 1cm is about the right length. 3cm high is about right too

Put a couple of notches on that strap, about 1/3 to 1/2 the width of the leather, at an angle, and somewhere around where the widest part of the pipe bowl is, and it could probably also serve as a cellphone holder.   I hope that description is good enough!!   I can see it in my head, but putting into words is not so easy.

- Bill

[fredk]

1 hour ago, SUP said:

Looks like you got your workshop sorted out. 🙂

I like that pipe rest. So practical. Plenty of other uses for that pattern too, it is so simple and versatile. 

Incidentally, is that a new meerschaum? 

No, not fully yet. I made that one for myself several years ago

I don't think its a meerschaum. Its just a pipe I keep and use to show the pipe rest 'in action'

19 minutes ago, billybopp said:

Put a couple of notches on that strap, about 1/3 to 1/2 the width of the leather, at an angle, and somewhere around where the widest part of the pipe bowl is, and it could probably also serve as a cellphone holder.   I hope that description is good enough!!   I can see it in my head, but putting into words is not so easy.

- Bill

I got ye. But I think the leather is too lite weight to hold a phone, It wud just fall over