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@Jayjay, I dont know what brand it is, it was bought from ebay in 3 small bottles, so I have no idea Im afraid.

Thanks for the info Spinner. I'll look into that, I know someone into those games, Ill ask if she has those paints. I have a spray can of supersheen but Ive not used it on a live project yet. I love those bibs:) Very inspiring...

Fantastic work! My favourtie is the eagle soaring over the mountins, absolutely stunning tooling there. Did you use acrylics? What finish did you use? I like the moulding around the tanks too.

Thanks! Yes, I dye around the letters with a fine brush, then use a dauber or cotton bud for the large areas away from the tooled letters. Then I apply the liquid latex, around the letters, when that sets I use masking tape else where. I use the red oil dye in an airbrush (just a cheap one) for dying the solid red areas on the letters.

Thanks all! I put most of it down to the helpful folk on this forum offering great advice, and my passion for learning as much about leatherwork as possible:) Thanks everyone! Yes, I put snaps on the jacket/vest to attach the to it. I plan on doing some other band patches and a military veterans patch for a friend who was in the army and navey. A problem that I use to have doing letters and then the backgrounding is that the leather would get pushed up around the edge of the letters or design, this made application of the liquid latex mask difficult to apply and the letters lost some depth. I overcame this poblem by lightly beveling (once more) around the edges. It also adds greater depth.

Here is my finished backpatch with the "Manowar" early style logo that I made to go onto a leather waistcoat. It will go above another patch that I made of the hammer of Thor symbol used on the album cover (see my pic gallery for the other patch). This was made from around 3.5mm thick leather with fiebings oil dyes. The topcoat is Saddle Lac but next time Id like to try other, non glossy finishes. Thanks for looking:)

Hi and Welcome to the forum! Im continuously learning new things on here.

Welcome to the forum:) Since we cant have hand guns over here, Ill have to make a rifle sling for my Ruger 10/22. Only the bad guys have the hand guns around here.....

Welcome to the forum! Its an invaluable resource with lots of talented folk willing to offer advice. Can you post some of your projects?

Very nice! How do you attach the liner to the front leather, is it glued first and then trimmed to the outline of the top layer? Fantastic tooling.

Thats a nice knife and sheath. I love damascus blades. How long did it take to make the blade?

Thanks Tommy and Chancey, I have some gold leaf spare so Ill make up a few test pieces. Tommy, I hope I can get it as good as yours! It really does look great.

It looks great! Can you tell me if the gold cracks if the leather is bent? I tried some gold leaf guilding and it was cracking easily as the leather flexed. What did you use as a top coat or sealer? Thanks.

Thanks Andrew. I use a bitumen based pitch (mixed with bees wax) because I cant find pine pitch in the UK.

Thanks Cheryl:) I need to practice those horses more!