e-Museum of Vintage Stuff

[King's X]

I was playing around on Google and found this link. Check it out. For those who have been in it for a while and especially those who are new and want to learn more about your new craft.

http://home.att.net/~saddle_tool_dude/

Thanks, Saddle Tool Dude

[mendedbowl]

thanks for the link ATX,

a very nice site

now i know what a few of the odd tools i've "collected" were meant to do.

ken

[bruce johnson]

Good site for saddle tool dude, and I like his makers section - good source. Now I am thinking on the keyboard here. It would be kind of cool if we had our own e-museum for tools here. We could do it within the leather history section easy enough. Threads for each type of tool like draw gauges, plough gauges, splitters, round knives, edgers, etc. We could add pictures of what we have and a little history. Keep each tool type in its own thread.

[mendedbowl]

sounds like a good idea to me Bruce.

ken

[King's X]

My pleasure.....it's all about sharing..........especially you Bruce since you were kind enough to share you purse patterns. By the way, I completed my first bag off your book and called it the "Bruce Bag."

The more minds searching the better, I always say!

[LJS]

I was playing around on Google and found this link. Check it out. For those who have been in it for a while and especially those who are new and want to learn more about your new craft.

http://home.att.net/~saddle_tool_dude/

Thanks, Saddle Tool Dude

Hay ToolDude

Great link

Thanks

[Lippy]

The Saddle Tool Dude's link doesn't work anymore. Do any of you know if he has a new leather tool website? What he had was a really nice start to a leather tool history database.

[gtwister09]

Lippy,

He's been gone for awhile.

Regards,

Ben

[jeeperaz]

The Saddle Tool Dude's link doesn't work anymore. Do any of you know if he has a new leather tool website? What he had was a really nice start to a leather tool history database.

web archive is your friend = http://web.archive.org/web/20080524174315/http://home.att.net/~saddle_tool_dude/

[Lippy]

web archive is your friend = http://web.archive.org/web/20080524174315/http://home.att.net/~saddle_tool_dude/

Wow! I like the new friend. Thanks "Jeeperaz".

[gtwister09]

Jeeperaz,

Web archive can be your friend "sometimes". Unfortunately many times the archive pictures are not stored with them. In fact you almost always get a data retrieval error when there's issues with pictures. Likewise many sites have put in requests not to be archived or have webcrawlers or robots scan them. Take a look at archive.org's website and you can see what the gotchas are.

Likewise many times pictures are stored on an imaging site like Photobucket and when they are gone all the references are dead as well. It's the same thing with leatherworker...if the photos aren't stored here then when you delete or move around your imaging site files then it makes a broken link here as well as other sites.

Regards,

Ben