I think that, having never really used craft knives much, I never thought about the costs or longevity. I've had a few of those little sets that come with one blade each of a load of shapes but not really any that came with a pack of replaceable ones. The knife I've got came with 5 blades, I never even realised how cheap 100 extra blades even was...
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How are you stropping those blades out of interest? I never even thought of doing that for a disposable blade.
By chance I went down to visit them today, I had a day off I had forgotten about that I had to use before the end of March. I brought my stuff with me to ask and they were really pleased to see what I had been doing and even took some pictures for their website!
I was right in what the leather was, it is indeed Badalassi Pueblo, its really nice, I got to see some much bigger cuts of it and I'm keen to make some more from that at some point.
Other than miles most of our stuff is metric anyway, at least legally. Like yeah, we use stones and feet for 'human' measurements in speech etc but if you go to the doctors it would be in kilos and metres. There are a few oddities like milk bottles being in pints and beer in pubs but even then you find things like plant milks and bottles/canned beer in litres. The one that really makes no sense is car fuel efficiency. We sell fuel by the litre but measure it in miles per (imperial) gallon - so it doesnt even tie up with American figures.
And Larry Ellison puts money into his charity looking into how to live forever...
I'm going back to the place I got it from soon so I plan to bring some of the things I've made or scrap examples to find out what leather it actually is. There are a few that are really nice.
I wish I knew, its from 2kg of scraps and offcuts I grabbed from random boxes. It might be Badalassi Carlo Pueblo.
Thanks :), its probably a bit hard to see but its really just some mildly wobbly edges and its slightly asymmetrical where one stitch line is a bit "tighter" than the other in both how close it fits and how close I cut to the line.
Pretty much, yeah. Soak the top one and stretch, smoosh and massage it to the object with a bone folder (I didn't have a bone folder yet so I just used some relatively not-too-sharp items I had laying around) then clamp it in place so it can't change shape and when it dries it will hold that shape. I kind of but didn't precisely follow this - https://mazeleather.com/4-ways-to-wet-mold-leather/.
Thanks! Its the little 18mm one ❤
Not sure, I've yet to attempt such a thing. This was rather stretchy and relatively thin leather but I don't think I could have done it with this.
Jitsi?