Members barehandcustoms Posted June 18, 2014 Members Report Posted June 18, 2014 Oil dye takes about two weeks to work its way out of your skin if you let it dry.....Wear gloves or clean it off immediately Buy good leather tools in the beginning if you can afford them instead of rebuying cheap tools when they break.....expensive tools don't equal good tools Always over measure your thread before sewing everything together....Thread is cheap but the time wasted unstitching and resewing isn't Quote
Members Ed in Tx Posted June 18, 2014 Members Report Posted June 18, 2014 How about keep fingers a safe distance from sewing machine needle when sewing. If it sews thru almost an inch of veg tan leather it will go thru your thumb without a problem. Luckily it was just the edge of my thumb and the needle was real sharp... Forgot I was using a right foot and not a left, so no guard for the needle. Guess this also applies to the blood ones.. Quote
Members JREESER1 Posted June 19, 2014 Members Report Posted June 19, 2014 Know your blood type! Quote
Members MonicaJacobson Posted June 19, 2014 Members Report Posted June 19, 2014 Know your blood type! What's the story behind this one? Needle jabs take a disproportionately long time to heal. If using a single gusset (for a large bag) and a pricking iron, measure as you go after you've done the first side. Unless you are careful, it will not produce the same number of holes the second time as it did the first time. Gah. I can't believe how long it took me to figure this out. Quote http://monicajacobson.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/TrimGoTrix?ref=si_shop
Members JREESER1 Posted June 19, 2014 Members Report Posted June 19, 2014 I was being a little tongue in cheek. I really knew my blood type before leather working, but it seems lately I am forever trying to stop trickles from awl jabs, knife nicks and knuckle barks from some tool. My platelet count has not returned from 2 longs bouts of chemo, 17 straight days of radiation and a stem cell transplant. I must be more careful. Quote
Members Hi Im Joe Posted June 19, 2014 Members Report Posted June 19, 2014 I was being a little tongue in cheek. I really knew my blood type before leather working, but it seems lately I am forever trying to stop trickles from awl jabs, knife nicks and knuckle barks from some tool. My platelet count has not returned from 2 longs bouts of chemo, 17 straight days of radiation and a stem cell transplant. I must be more careful. Dude I just read your interests. Hell yeah congratulations on beating that shit twice! Keep it up man! Quote http://www.sevenhillsleather.com/
Members JREESER1 Posted June 20, 2014 Members Report Posted June 20, 2014 The great folks on this site, like you, keep me coming back.......every day. And everyday is all I can ask! Quote
Members MonicaJacobson Posted June 20, 2014 Members Report Posted June 20, 2014 I was being a little tongue in cheek. I really knew my blood type before leather working, but it seems lately I am forever trying to stop trickles from awl jabs, knife nicks and knuckle barks from some tool. My platelet count has not returned from 2 longs bouts of chemo, 17 straight days of radiation and a stem cell transplant. I must be more careful. Wow, yeah, you probably should keep all the blood you can, if you can help it. Quote http://monicajacobson.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/TrimGoTrix?ref=si_shop
Members Hi Im Joe Posted June 20, 2014 Members Report Posted June 20, 2014 (edited) The great folks on this site, like you, keep me coming back.......every day. And everyday is all I can ask! A really good family friend always says..."Any day above ground is a good day." Its all too easy to forget that. Edited June 20, 2014 by Hi Im Joe Quote http://www.sevenhillsleather.com/
Members jfdavis58 Posted July 5, 2014 Members Report Posted July 5, 2014 Probably shouldn't admit this for two reasons: there has already been enough blood and this lesson learned is far too serious, but here it is anyway. Never put a knife down on the bench without it's sheath and a corollary (that's something that follows logically from the first part), never cut leather in front of a customer! I was trying to be a nice guy, the customer was a pain. He wanted his holster his way, i.e. his pattern. And he wanted me to do the initial cutting where he could see it done (his den). I agreed to 'discuss his pattern' but explained that once used it was mine (knowing there would be significant modification). About ninety minutes (unpaid) and we had a sort of hybrid pattern he could live with. He still wanted to see it cut. I had (here's the stupid part) put the sheathed knife in my bag and brought along the cutting surface and sufficient leather. He picked the spot to cut from. Everything was still cordial. The knife, a Leather Wranglers Round knife. The customer watched in absolute fascination as I cut and repositioned the leather and cut again, several time. I heard him loudly exhale when I made the last cut and the 'blank' fell free. I set the knife down and of course he snatched it up remarking that it must be" very sharp". Before I could say don't try the edge he ran his thumb along about 60% of the edge--down to the bone and about 45% of the total circumference of his thumb. Hearing him howl when the sensation reached his brain was epic. I took him to the ER and they put in 12 stitches. As we were leaving the hospital I told him he was very lucky. He didn't quite feel as optimistic. That's when I showed him my BOSS. I bet he still doesn't have much color in his face. Quote
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