I love my micrometre.
It is the only way to ensure a good, consistent onlay, and the first picture demonstrates the thickness I have found to work best for onlays.Full goatskins used for covering upto certain sizes I now get split to .7-0.75 ...I have found the 0.6 most people get it split to is just too thin, and may compromise strength.
The mosaic style of dying, cutting-out,and onlaying in a grid or other pattern, is a technique worth further exploration....
