LARGE bag of leather - Northants area

[Indoorsout]

I can't afford to ship my leather with me when I move to Australia later in the year so I'd like to offer it here. It's mostly chrometan with a few bits of veg in there, lots of different colours and thicknesses, sizes from small offcuts to quite large hide sections (especially the black).

I am open to offers. What I really want is a good working knife, maybe some carving tools, nothing too heavy

The leather weighs a lot so not really good to ship. I'm halfway between Northampton and Milton Keynes, right next to Salcey Forest.

Anyhow, here's the leather...


Image0306.jpg by r.wolf1970, on Flickr

Oh, there's a 12" ruler at the bottom of the pic for scale

 

[HHazeldean]

(sigh..) Wish I was closer, would have loved to get my hands on a bag of offcuts like that.

I got a bag of offcuts fairly similar a few years back from a handbag maker.

 

[Indoorsout]

I hate to get rid of it, but it's so expensive to ship stuff to Oz. Just weighed the bag and there's 11 kilos (24lb) in there.

 

[Indoorsout]

Bump... I am willing to look at other stuff, as long as it's lightweight and practical Remember, in a couple of months everything I own has to be pared back to 27 kilos (luggage and carry on) so I really am watching the pounds (or even grams). Most of my tools, including (rather stupidly) both my bushy knife and my nessy, are currently somewhere in a container between here and Australia and I only have my 1½" carving blade in the UK... And for the first time I'm within walking distance of a forest... Just my luck

Hence the preference for a decent knife!

 

[HHazeldean]

I don't believe that you are allowed to take a fixed blade knife on the plane in your main luggage. I am out there now and I wasn't able to take mine.

 

[Longstrider]

Please PM me with a phone number I can call you on r.e. the leather. Hopefully we can sort out a deal. My guess is you're in Hartwell if you're right next to Salcey. I'm only a 20 minute drive away near Wellingborough (and grew up with the old 'keeper in Salcey).

Edit to add : You CAN take fixed blades to Oz, in 'checked in' luggage. I went there on my honeymoon last October and took a selection of blades, including my 10" bladed competiton cutter with no problem whatsoever.
I've taken the comp cutter by plane to the USA, to Belgium, to Holland and to Oz in my checked in case, no worries. Other fixed blades have travelled with me in similar fashion to most parts of our little blue speck in space.

Just don't try leaving them in your hand luggage !

 

[Indoorsout]

Yep, this was planned for my main luggage, not carry-on! PM'ed you mate

 

[craeg]

You have a PM

 

[Indoorsout]

All gone now, thanks

*shiny*