A couple of tips from Peter Main

[MADMAX22]

5 minutes ago, JLSleather said:

Exactly my point max... not sure why we are praising some great wisdom for something which has been done for decades

 

Yeah but two sides to that coin. On one side you have the internet which history wise has a bunch of info on certain things but requires people to both post that information and the big part people to search for that information. Pretty sure Peter wrote his books before the internet was a staple. Not to mention its like anything with trades that have existed for hundreds/thousands of years. Ya get a rehash or atleast use to of all the tricks of the trade.  Now a days ofcourse you have the internet. Gonna be interesting the next good sized solar flare we have that knocks out all the satellites. People are gonna get crazy lol. 

Peter does some amazing work and is very talented and has been doing this leather crafting for a few years (since the 60s I think), dont mind reading his books or absorbing any information that he relates to the field.  

[JLSleather]

The guy's work is very nice - no question.  I'm just not giving credit for THIS "tidbit", since it's not his.  

Years back, I 'figured out' that my work would still be good to finish up on later if i take the tracing film I transferred the design with, and just leave it on the unfinished portion.  Now, this is no great "revelation"... anybody coulda figured that out.  But either way, it would be silly to then say "Hey, Jeff had a great idea!" .. when fact is people did that before I ever picked up a piece of leather.

In the end .... no matter 

 

[bikermutt07]

I was just having some fun, pay me no mind.