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[kiteguy]

Hey, Kitesquid. I like your slitter tool. I especially like the photo that shows the weights you have on the Ripstop, and all around.

They look like soft leather bags filled with sand, or something. Maybe rice, or wheat.

I have been using plastic recycled yogart containers. I wash them out and fill them with rice.

[Gary]

Um, I get no pics either.

Clicking on the links I get a 'Not Authorized' window.
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Gary E

[Steve D]

Try going to the notebook section of the album and looking at the pics there - just worked for me...

[Kitesquid]

The weights are made from "mocisin" leather. it is soft and allows the bags to conform to surfaces.

I have aobut 12 that I bought. They are filled with steel shot and were marketed as paperweights.

I made about 6 myslef and they are filled with about 2.5 Lbs of lead shot each.

I like the lead ones better as they weigh more than the steel ones.

Lead shot is available in 25 lb bags at sporting good stores or gun shops that sell shot gun reloading supplies.

I just copied the ones I bought...

I layed a coffee can with the full bag of shot in it on the leather and cut around it with a scalpel blade (#11 hobby knife will work too, but sharp is imporant) and then stakced 2 up and sewed them but left an half inch or so opening to fill em wiht the lead.

Fill and sew shut.

write your name on em as they might disapeer at the next workshop you attend.

i like to use em to weigh my patterns down as I plop em down and the pattern does not shift.

LOTS of weight and my patterns dont shift!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I plan on makeing more as $ permit
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KiteSquid
AKA TakoIka
AKA Harold
King George VA

P.S. The wind is like the air, only pushier.

[Gary]