On 12/21/2008 12:59 PM John J spake thus:

It is zero Fahrenheit here right now. Got the walk shoveled, and now
I'm staring at a Deardorff 8x10 that needs a leather handle. I can
make one. But the two metal retaining strips are missing. I do not
have a metal bender (brake). And I can't find any split rivets.

Any ideas?

Aren't those just the thin sheet metal strips that run the length of the
handle? Should be able to cut those out of thin sheet with a pair of
tinsnips, I'd think. Unless you're talking about something else. (I've
repaired handles that way using tin cans before.)


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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

- Paulo Freire