Duh

[jducoeur]

You ever have one of those moments when you realize you have done something so staggeringly dumb that you are forced to introspectively wonder if your brain has been replaced by Waldorf salad when you weren't looking? This is one of those moments.

Oh, well -- no damage done, and nothing wasted except a bunch of time. And it feels wonderful when a Major Crisis that is making me crazy dissolves into mist...

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[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear it! But yea -- BT, DT. Hopefully your drill bit has forgiven you. ;-)

(Just be glad it wasn't a bolt that you spent half an hour trying to loosen by torquing *clockwise*...I've seen heads snapped off by people who just couldn't! get! it! loose!)

If you need leather working tools or scraps, they're available over here -- I wasn't clear from your description if you had the strap built or not.

[jducoeur]

Thanks for the offer, but at this point I think I've pretty much got it -- might fiddle with the shaping a bit, but it seems reasonable. I picked up basic leather tools a few weeks ago, and went down to Walter Dyer and got an enormous bag of scrap leather cheap...