Construction paper is a heavy form of paper, graph paper is laid out in grids/squares and each square represents 1/4" of 1/2" depending on the size of paper you buy! Sorry Robert I know you use the metric system over there but here in the states we never made the full conversion, and a lot of things are still in measurements of an inch!!
You mentioned wet forming. When wet forming wrap the entire knife handle and all that way the wet leather will not hurt the knife and the wrapping also leaves a bit of clearance around the knife once dry!!
As to your initial question. Yes you are getting better!
Your comment about the wife made me think of a story, I will try to keep this short as possible!
I was born and raised the first 18 yrs. of my life in Nebraska and it can get colder that a well diggers a$$ in Montana as the old saying goes.
My father was a carpenter and he had a job he needed to finish. All he lacked was one cabinet. I hear the back door to the house open and my father hollers at me to help him. When I get to the back door he has a sheet of plywood in his hand. He actually had two more on the truck.
Help me get this in the house. In the house I said, what are you going to do?? I am going to build this last cabinet right here in the middle of the living room floor. It is too cold to work in the shop (no heat) and I need to finish this job!
So as were moving in the rest of the wood and tools, I just had to ask. What do you think Mama is gonna say when she sees this mess. His response was, she will never know. It will take about an hour to cut and assemble this cabinet and we will have it all cleaned up before she gets home!!
He was making a cut with the skillsaw and he finished and sit down the saw. A wood chip had jambed the guard and when he sit it down, the still rotating blade cut a half circle in the vinyl floor before it stopped!! I looked at him and said, so much for Mama never knowing!!
We did get the cabinet finished and we were all cleaned up before my Mother walked into the house. I made sure I was not in the living room, I was watching the TV. She started across the floor towards the bathroom, off of the living room. I heard the bathroom door shut and then it immediately reopened. And then I heard her say, what the #@!! happened to my living room floor! My mother was one that did not cuss, but when she did you knew she was mad!! My father made his entrance from the kitchen about that moment, she wheeled around and again she said a bad word, directed at my father!! Needless to say you can see where this is headed!!
