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I have a fume hood!!! And it works, for the most part! This is so exciting for me. As a leatherworker, I sometimes work with methods or materials I shouldn’t be breathing. A lot of leather glues, like barge cement, are not good to be inhaled and are denser than air, so can hover around
A sailmaker’s palm is a tool used by rope makers, who often need to shove needles through very thick material. This can be hard to do with regular thimbles. The sailmaker’s palm positions a custom thimble into the meat of the thumb, where a lot of force can easily be applied without hurting one’s hands.
Here’s some of the things I picked up from Ionia cleaned up! Thread Rack DeForest actually cleaned the cabinet for me as a surprise when I was at work (he was cleaning his rocking chair and decided to be a dear and clean it for me!). I polished it up with some wood wax and