You Never Know What You Are Going To Get In To

[Halitech]

Tubes? Go to the hardware store that sells cement stuff and has a lumberyard. They'll have concrete footer tubes for pouring deck footers. 8"-diameter runs about $6-$7 for a four-foot length, 10" around $10. You can put a lot of veg tan in one of those, and they won't collapse under the weight of the leather.

only problem with those sonatubes is most are coated with some kind of waxy coat which would probably rub off on the leather

[WinterBear]

Hmm, the ones I get from my local place have a nearly plastic-looking/feeling coating that doesn't rub off. Or I suppose you could line them with heavy craft paper.

[taintedelephant]

I've read in a few places that it was wax, but don't know for sure. Winterbear, what is your personal experience with using sonitube? I like your paper idea.

[HorseHerder]

I'm hearing similar stories of ventures into the vast realm of leatherwork. At first I think a got in too deep, spent a lot of money all because I bought a used saddle and started tweaking it.

I'd like to say my workspace was neat and tidy all the time, but my bedroom is all I can come up with for now. No pictures necessary, it's shameful...

I'm actually headed back to the craft store today, don't quite have what I need and I'm not interested in 'making do' when commissioned to make something for a Christmas gift. Better get cracking!

God bless!

[taintedelephant]

That's the story of my life, I seam to have ADD with occasional bouts of OCD. I get out every toy in my toy box and drop them where I finish with them until I don't have any room left to play, then I organize them until everything has a place, and everything is in it's place. Once it is all pretty I go get more toys and start all over.

[Dwight]

That's the story of my life, I seam to have ADD with occasional bouts of OCD. I get out every toy in my toy box and drop them where I finish with them until I don't have any room left to play, then I organize them until everything has a place, and everything is in it's place. Once it is all pretty I go get more toys and start all over.

Nahhhhh, . . . that's not ADD or OCD or any other alphabetically concocted malady, . . . it is indeed "condition normal".

Or at least it is in my family, . . . all my brothers & sisters (5 bros / 4 sisters), . . . my wifes family (5 sisters / 3 bros), . . . mom's family (4 sisters / 3 bros).

I would go out the door a screaming bonkers whooooo-dooooooo if "normal" was putting everything back in it's place as soon as I'm done with it, . . . OR, . . . if there was no "place" and everything just always got left where it was last used.

Right now I'm a bit overwhelmed, myself, with "where is it", . . . as we have been building our carport / garage / leather shop for the past 16 months, . . . and the "putting stuff away" has kinda not been done, . . . but it will be.

Either I'll do it, . . . or just before the estate sale, . . . my executor will see it's done, . . . after I'm ground temperature. And I don't get all wrapped around the axle worrying about which way it will turn out.

May God bless,

Dwight