Thanks Steve. Your posts explaining how you do things is one of the highlights of the forum for me, and I reckon that is true for most everyone else who comes on here. To be clear, my post was not a complaint about the forum-- really I just would love to see more of what everyone is doing. I'll be excited to see your leather covered pad process. I have done only one, but I am planning to do more in the future.
To do my part, I will be posting about a project that has festered for a lot of years and is finally near completion. I do think I have posted about it before but more in the vein of 'how do you X?' I'm hoping to put together a better post from start to finish soon (even if I have a few tick list things to complete after the post.