unicornleather

Well done low plains drifter, keep going, takes a while to get the right technique. You can never practice too much Oz

As in the title really, I am after some New Zealand white does and a New Zealand Red Buck, yet I can't find any near me in West Wales or anywhere really for a reasonable price. All I see are adverts for pet rabbits that are lops, netherland dwarfs or lionheads and some have been neutered at that and at very high prices. I am scared to ask on some of the animal/pet forums as I get jumped on for daring to want meat rabbits. Has anyone else had this problem,there doesn't seem to be any info on the net for NZ rabbit breeders in the UK maybe they also keep their heads down.

Even as a Saddler I get anti's giving me grief on various forums/groups as they assume all Saddlers kill their own cattle for leather and hunt foxes all day!

Home made dust bath for chickens This is for anyone who has the same problem of chickens indoors needing a dust bath. If you have the same stuff lying around as I did and you can sew/glue things together this is easy to make. Today I decided to make my chickens who are in the barn a dust bath, whilst they are stuck indoors I've been using trays and all sorts but it gets messy in there as they spray it all around. I took an old builder's bag I had in the basement and using scrap textiles (of which I have lots) made a door in the side with a "curtain", on the ends of the curtain pieces

Come on facebook and join us on https://www.(!64.56:886/groups/JackHargreaves I'm one of the admin on there and the more the merrier, some cracking vids and photos on there

If you want proper rolled leatherwork that length (done by hand, the proper way) would cost a fortune. Round leads can be made using a machine but leaves the stitches exposed, real rolled work won't have any stiches showing. The alternative is round leather belting like this cheaper to make and buy but won't last as long as true rolled work, it stretches for starters [/url] [/url] Oz

It has to have a greenwood as well as a hardwood I believe, so it's a natural spring, with the whippy flexibility of the greenwood and the strength of the hardwood, this is why Yew is suited to the task, it has both. What other hardwoods grown here in the UK have this I don't know, maybe GruffaolGriff can answer that one?

Mate of mine made a longbow and a crossbow out of Yew, he cut it and seasoned it for a year. The crossbow was lethal, putting a bolt through his shed door in his garden, don't think he'll be getting any burglars or anti's ! He made the bolts and the arrows for the bows too, his surname is Fletcher after all! For the trigger mechanism on the crossbow, he superglued 5 or 6 copper 2 pence pieces together to make a cylinder, then drilled a hole through it for the shaft so it could turn freely and filed a groove in it to hold the bow string. The actual trigger itself was a revolving round punch p

No not on the forum as it's seen as advertising because of the rest of my site is commercial but I do PM people on there to show them the article and then say on the forum I have PM'd the OP with an article on badly made saddles, it then opens the floodgates and I get inundated with PM's asking for the article I also have a list of saddles to avoid but obviously can't post those as it would be seen as libel (even though it's true!) Who are you on the H & H forum? I'm cremedemonthe (don't ask) Sorry, didn' t think about the advertising angle. I had realised who you must be from yo

I made my dogs hi vz collars, harness, etc I added reflective strips as well which reflects my lamp and car headlights up to 500 metres away with ease, handy to find a dog that has selective hearing

Thanks but the trees are specialist stuff, laminated beechwood set in a hot press,then specially covered in muslin and shrunk in and painted over.The head and gullet plates, reinforcing along the bars, cantle and the the springs all have to be put on in a jig to be symmetrical, not something you can do properly without years of practice and training as well as specialist machinery. The webbing I use anyway, I have a few thousand metres of it as any one time buying in straight from the manufacturers, I have specialist material science experience enabling me to make all sorts of things with mos

No not on the forum as it's seen as advertising because of the rest of my site is commercial but I do PM people on there to show them the article and then say on the forum I have PM'd the OP with an article on badly made saddles, it then opens the floodgates and I get inundated with PM's asking for the article I also have a list of saddles to avoid but obviously can't post those as it would be seen as libel (even though it's true!) Who are you on the H & H forum? I'm cremedemonthe (don't ask)

When I get the time I write articles, I do have many more in the pipelines but time is of an essence. I am currently making my own brand of products (Horse and Rider Locatas) to supply an equestrian wholesaler and retailers round the country. I also make my own brand of traditional leather conditioner using only animal and vegetable ingredients, some of which I have to render myself. I am making cable parachutes next week for a gliding club local to me, so I have little time to write. I wrote this article about 4-5 years ago to show non trade people what utter crap there is out there, even

Hello mate, you'll find tools on ebay, tools made by Joseph Dixon are good. Do you want to learn to handstitch, the saddlery way or were you thinking of using rivets instead? Stitched the right way it will be stronger than riveted.

funnily enough I was thinking about doing an article on this, the traditional way to make leatherwork using techniques that have been used for centuries. It's just time to do it. What tools have you got, if any?