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    My neighbour is a lorry driver who goes up that way regularly, where about's in Surrey are you? I can ask him but it will be up to his governor who owns the lorry, Oz
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    Great pic!
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    Welcome to the forum
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    Welcome to the forum
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    Welcome to the forum, hope you find permission to shoot soon
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    Welcome to the forum, used to go sea fishing up there many moons ago!
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    Welcome to the forum
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    Welcome to the forum, Oz
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    Welcome to the forum
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    Welcome mate
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    Should be in a museum, good old English pigskin seat saddle in the first pic, what you call quality in it's day that is!
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    Cheaper to make your own if you know someone with a sewing machine that has the time to do them.
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    Nice looking dog, I have a saluki x whipper bitch, make good rabbit dogs although she loves rats and kills them with every opportunity!
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    Another vote for Landywoods, I wouldn't use anyone else, good range and good prices. They are updating their price lists at the moment but give them a call and they can quote you prices. www.landywoods.co.uk
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    Nice work gaffer, Oz
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    Keep my Sister out of this!
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    I find in general beef breeds to be more docile than dairy, all cows though can have the potential to be dangerous if they have young at foot, it's their natural instinct. We had head of dairy cattle on the farm I lived on for a while, evil sods one minute, dopey the next, very unpredictable! It's common sense not to walk through them with dogs I would have thought, cattle don't know there's a footpath through a field or that they should not challenge dogs/humans on their patch.
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    Bosun11-I made a couple, one for the Deerhound owner as it was the only lead they could find that stopped him dragging them off their feet and one for a mate who worked his dogs. It wasn't me at Lowther though but this is the old fashioned way of doing the turns on certain types of work. Chilly-I have yet to see anyone else making these although I am sure there are some out there, if you are buying this sort of lead make sure the ends of the turns are covered with something, anything is better than nothing and not just left with a blunt edge showing have a look at a few on ebay up close and
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    Yes, it did but it's lasted so it was worth it, now if I had made it in ROLLED leather it would have lasted even longer but I really couldn't be arsed to sit and stitch a 5 foot lead! You try holding it still to stitch it and you'll see what I mean! Oz
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    Some one was asking me about round leather slips, so thought I'd tell them on here.I made mine at least 15 years ago so it's still in good nick for it's age, although I did cheat as the round leather is manufactured like this nowadays we used to have to make what is known as ROLLED leather, which as the name implies is worked,shaped, rolled round a centre core, stitched it's entirety and then put in a rounding block and worked some more. It's nothing like round leather yet I see abuse of the word online a lot, especially on ebay,people calling ROUND leather ROLLED leather which it is nothing
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    He is a real craftsman, hat's off to him, some quality knives and leatherwork there, Oz
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    I like that Bowie!
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    Here's brewers pitch http://www.traditionalmaterials.co.uk/html/substances.php
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    I've seen leather tankards used with liners but have never made one, I know they use some sort of pitch to line it. I've done some digging and found out that it's Brewer's Pitch but used on it's own it's brittle so mix it with beeswax and heat it up, swirl the mixture round the inside of the tankard to give it a good coat and seal it and it will stiffen it further to hold it's shape, if you use a fairly thick shoulder leather say 2.5mm -3 mm it will naturally be stiff enough to retain the shape, especially when stitched together. Remember to make patterns out of card first to get shape and
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