Don101

Hi Judy i know what you are going through ive nearly comppleted my first saddle and didnt have one template to use so i made each template as i went along i saw a lot of good ways to do things on ClayB pic site and adopted some things from the pics to suite what i was building, the way i made the skirt trmplate was to lay underneath the tree a large card sheet, centered it to the center under the tree, squared it of at the bottom then clamped the tree on to the paper with the drawdown and marked the paper with my fingernail pressing the card to take the shape of the tree underneath then marked roughly the front curve at the top and along the bars, removed the card and drew it correctly and cut it out, reemounted it under the tree and checked if every thing was ok, probbably a long winded way to do it but not having the experience or someone to show me another way to do it that hoe i did it by checking and then checking again, Don

Hi John welcome to the forum we are glad you found us, there are some realy nice cases on your site lovely work, Don

Nice boots have you ever thought about or have you ever made 1870- 1890 style coffeevill or cathederal stiched authentique one piece vamp 17-18 inch high full wood peged , i would be interested if you could do this type of work, Don

Welcom to the forum Spen glad you came back, don

Welcome to the forum Maeshin, Don

Hi Lace welcome to the forum, and yes do get some pics up, Don

Hi Hobby welcome to the forum, Don

Hi Snuffy welcome to the forum, Don

Hi Kat welcome to the forum, Don

Hi Welcome back Drac, Don

Hi JR welcome to the forum that is some realy nice work, Don

i have a problem at the moment with leather as i was geting leather from bremen and a couple of years a go the place closed down so i was using another place in bremen but it has let me down so i will have to try another place out im not sure at the moment, if ill go with lederhaus or http://www.kobel-leder.de/index_de.html or here http://www.kilger.de/index.cfm , Don

Have you tried here http://www.lederhaus.de/ http://www.leder-hobby.de/ http://www.thebeargallery.de/ Don

Hi Jammon welcome to the forum, there are plenty of ideas and talented people you can learn from and are willing to help out, Don

Hi Mike welcome to the forum were glad you found us, Don

Hi EL welcome to the forum glad you are a nerd and found us, lol , no eye rolling here as up untill a year a go i was a pro gamer and belonged to two clans mainly all the BF and CSS so i know how serious it is and involves a lot of time and tackticks, Don

Marcel congrats on the first project its a nice piece you can be proud to show, Don

Wow Vera that is very nice is there a special way to do that, how do you cut the pieces out? please explaine how you do it, it looks very impressive, Don

Hi Randy welcome back, and hopefully all will be well and back to normall soon as they are doing a great job so far, Don

Outstanding Larry i do love your spur straps, so clean and original, Don

Hi and welcome to the forum, i would say the basic sets tandy do are a good start to get the feel of using the tools and as mensioned the stohlman books are good, and there are plenty of people here also willing to give advice and tutorials, Don

Welcome to the forum and a harty welcome back YR, thanks for sticking around, Don

Clay that is trully amazing, i cant wait to see how you know where or how you push from the back to give it that 3d look trully a master, Don

dito all the above posts i was geting grumpy the last few days and wondering what went wrong and not enjoying the morning coffee reading through all the good posts, well done to all envolved geting the forum up and running again, i just love this place, Don

Nice carving Clay i also love your tutorials so do keep them comming, Don