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Thanks everyone for the compliments.

Second time trying the Mexican round braid. Man that takes a lot of lace!

Noob leather, no the basket weave has a diamond in the center. Thanks

Thanks for the compliments. It was quite a bit of work. The backgrounding was done with an A104 tool plus another A104 that I have ground down for smaller spaces.

My latest project. A new Hassock cushion for a camel saddle. The original was in too bad a shape to restore, so I offered a few alternatives and this is what the customer selected. Took about 50 hrs and a lot of sore fingers! My own design taken from several pictures of originals.

Cool looking! Neat idea.

Thanks everyone for the compliments. Thinking I'm going to stain it darker and bevel the bottom outside edge of the inner leg so it doesn't ride up on the seat cushion.

Brownie1, I probably spent 2-3 hrs drawing the design, lots of erasing, since it was my first time drawing a floral design. Then maybe six hrs tooling and an hour or so doing the finish. Building the wood tray table was probably a couple of hrs.

Thank you

A recent project I just finished. It's a couch arm table that slips down over the arm to hold drinks, phone, tablet, remotes, etc. This is also my first attempt at drawing my own floral design to carve. I lined the inside with deer skin to protect the couch.

Northmount, yes they did. I found a font in Word that I liked and printed out, then traced, cut and stamped the background into them. But you're right, they do look better I think. Rohn, you're welcome

Rohn, Thanks. I use 7-8 oz. leather, 1/4" smooth plywood and get the clocks from Amazon, Mudder brand. The top one I used letter stamps and then backgrounded inside of them. On the second one I used letters I drew, cut and backgrounded. Use contact cement to fix the leather to the plywood. Precaution note; cut, punch and tool your leather first, then use it as a template to mark your wood for cutting. Put an index mark on the back of the leather and top of the wood to use when you glue them together. Cut the wood a little proud and then sand to even them out, round over the leather edge, burnish and edge dye both to finish. I learned all that from the first one. Just some helpful tips. Good luck, Tom