Thanks and Happy New Year all!
I'm back to work again, a bit later than expected since I've been restoring things after my SSD failed.
If you're reading this now, BACK YER STUFF UP IF YOU HAVEN'T IN A WHILE OKAY. YOU KNOW IT'S A GOOD IDEA. IT'S THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW YEAR, WHAT BETTER TIME?
Luckily enough I decided a couple months ago to no longer keep all my leatherworking stuff on my main drive and keep a couple redundant copies. And I've also concluded I don't think SSDs are worth the drawbacks, catastrophic failure with only a random BSOD earlier in the day to warn me and the expense versus capacity isn't worth the speed.
If you've put in an order form since Christmas I'll be getting back to you either today or tomorrow.
As predicted, too, my Secret Santa recipient took way better pictures than I did of the finished product. Borrowed this pic from Pointy Fox over in that thread
If you've wondered what purple dye looks like, you can see it's really on the darkish bluish side of purples.
Posts to-do: I'd like to make some picture updates for folks with in-progress work, I've got some funky leatherworking tech to show off courtesy of mkawa and Edsyn's awesomeness (yup, leatherworking meets soldering hype is upcoming), and said tech is hopefully to be applied to this project I have been putting off for a while