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The stool I use is found at Walmart. See below. the leather is 6 oz. cut about 1 1/2" bigger all around. I then skive it down thinner to allow it to roll over the edge and staple it to the bottom of the removable seat. Pick or draw a picture, transfer it to the leather. Carve it, paint and/or dye, put a finish on it and staple it to the seat and re-attach the seat to the stool. This one has 60 flat rivets on it to give it some more flare. Thanks for looking! Tom

A new rough out money belt double holster rig and a canvass shot shell belt for a new shooter.

A shot shell slide to fit over the buckle area of a gun belt.

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

Here are numbers 3 & 4 of the clocks I've made for Christmas orders. Going to try one with a geometric design next.

Very nice. Reminds me of those ornate gold gilded picture frames.

Anybody ever mount a Consew CSM100 to a Singer 29U171A patcher? Any problems, advice, best way to go about it?

Christian fish design. I designed and made two 3D printed stamps and used my arbor press. Then I went back and used a backgrounder and seeder to finish them.

What size is your laser engraver? Very nice work, beautiful color.

SilverForgeStudio, I painted the dog with acrylics and then sealed the painted area with 3 coats of Super sheen. Then I used a water base antique gel in saddle tan over the whole piece. The numbers are dyed with green oil dye and the edge with a brown dye. Then a couple of coats of Tan-Kote over everything. Takes some time but worth it to get a nice finish. Hope this helps.