Don101

way freaky i wish i could just pop over and atend the venue and get to see some cool stuf and meat a few members

All the above it looks superb, Don

nice carving i like the wallet i wonder why, Don

Hi Melody welcome to the site, thats some realy nice work its badenough working on a full sized saddle, but thats some fine work, are the basket weawe stamps a single stamp and made by yourself or custom made? Don

Ja von mir auch alles gute, Don

You do realise that there is oder free thiners and spirits so it could be possible.. i do oil painting and use bob ross oder free thiners the hazards are still the same but you just dont smell it, Don

Hi Duane welcome to the forum great to have you here and look forward to see some pics of your work, Don

welcome to the forum Freddie

i agree with you the tools you get from tandy are great for beginners as for the more advanced artist although some tools from lets just say the pro line without adverteising are crisper, i must have around 70 tools that came from tandy or the LF and they suit my needs i doo have around 12 or so tools that cost at an average $50-60 each because tandy or the LF didnt make that stamp, i dont think that a beginer would want to invest thousands of $ just to get started so we all can be greatfull of the tools that cost around 10-20 bucks. Don P.S the picture looks fantastique

make yourself a wooden block mold and form the top piece of leather over the block tack it down and let it dry glue to the back piece stitch around and trim finished, Don

Hi Helen welcome to the forum, Hope to see more of your art work soon, Don

Very nice cool design i like it, Don

ok the way i do it is use the stitching grove and after that use the stitching wheel, then set up on the stitching horse lace my thread ive tried pree waxed thread at the begining and didnt really like it that mutch i use bees wax and wax my own thread, first off have you sharpened your awl and are you using a diamond shaped awl, i would recomend a diamond shaped awl and sharpen it, i do each hole then push the thread through and pull tight, a helpfull tip before you push the awl through the leather, push the awl into a candel (bees wax is best but a normal one will do) you will find that the awl will go through the leather without any drag and hardly any pressure needed giving you more controle, Don

.....WOW Clay thats just totaly out of this world ...if i could remember how to spell all the big fancy words i would use them right now, Don

Have you heard of Pando its a program thats used to send large files through the net strait to the recievers email and then you can down load the atatchment through pando... im a new user to pando and find it simple and easy to use has anyone else used or heard of it before. Don

nice pair of spur straps it is one of my most liked style of straps because of the simplisity, no buckles and so on ... plus they are the quickest to put on or take of but after seeing the way you did yours i was surprised to see that the adjustment cuts dont go through the leather or am i mistaken ...i believe this will be very hard to see when trying to mount the spurs as you canot see the button and the outer layer of leather will press against the button.... i dont know i may be wrong have you tried to mount this style while wearing boots and then puting on the straps, Don

http://www.leatherworker.net/forum/index.p...entry6310 i did a run through is that any help its a simple wallet to do

Welcome to the site Robert glad you found us, as freak said that is some nice work and ill get in line for some tools, Don

LOL Romey i feel better now

thats not your first atempt at making a holster is it? because it looks dam good to me nice straight stitching and nicely formed for hand molding great job there well done, Don

i did this one manny years a go one day when i was bored and wanted somthing to do way before i knew about lifters and such with little experience on carving as such, the colouring was done with the permanent markers as i did on the wallet thanks Clay for the tutorial as it has shown me how i can improve on this style of carving, when i get some spare time ill have to try it the again the ClayB way and see what happens

Thanks Don for the reply so far maybe some others could also help me out here so i can get a feel of what is the most common way to do this...Don

Well im in but i feel lonely all on my own so far away

Ok im building my first saddle so i need some info and help here, the question is how do you do your cheyenne role as ive seen a couple of different ways and im not sure which way will be better for me to do, 1. the first way ive seen is when you nail a piece of leather to the top of the cantle and fold the seat over to form the roll. 2. the second is where you over lap the back of the cantle leather and fold back the leather and then pull the seat over the folded back cantle leather, not verry well explained but i hope you get what im trying to get over i would be interested to hear how you do it, plus pros and cons of the different methods of doing it .... so please help me out here cheers Don