Beaverslayer

Yes Tina, your work is amazing, the coloring is just wonderful. You must have a great deal of patience to be able to get the colors so good. Ken

Well Dave, I'll say goodbye to one of you now, and a WARM welcome to the one that stays....LOL Ken

Beautiful as always Larry. I tell you, you have to send your work to the "Calgary Stampede" you will not only make a fortune, but you'll most likely become extremely famous. All the world class rodeo stars are there for the largest rodeo in the world (excepting out the NFR in Vegas). They have each year a compitition for western artwork and stuff, that you should enter. Ken

freak, that's just GREAT work...I LOVE it...but when I clicked the link my puter froze solid, and no it wasn't the cold Canadian winter here. But great work, can't wait to see it finished. Ken

Very nice indeed Luke. Did you also make the hat? Ken

Thanks Clay, I always love looking and reading your "How To Do's" they are an inspiration to keep trying harder. Ken

Very nice looking rdb, love the color. Ken

As said before the crash of 08, very nice work Dave, I love your stuff. And we should inform freak that the State of California says that black dye causes cancer. Ken

I've tried everything Roger, I give up, so what if there's a little extra pics to look at, they always ask at the developers if you want copies for friends and relatives anyways. Ken

Thanks rdb, for the life of me I can't get the post to show the pics in the proper order, it just wants to put the wherever it wants. Also tried to remove the extra little blurb about attachment stuff and it wont go away either. Ken

Hey everyone, seems like I can't repost the pics in the original post, so I've reposted them here. Thanks for looking Ken

Yes Tandy does sell the "Institutional" products. They are what I had to learn to use while incarcerated and learning leatherwork. They are a little finicky but with practice you will learn. We could also order the Pro Dyes as well if you snuck it into the order as just a part number and not list what it actually was. But if caught with it once you had gotten it in, you spent a period of time where you were'nt allowed to do leatherwork. Ken

Maybe try your local watch repair shop and see if they have a source for them. Ken

Wolvie, as I live in Canada and the seat is going to California, I can't ride the bike. Also I have Vertigo and can't ride anymore, I'd just fall down and wreck that nice bile. Ken

Eric, here's a picture of the piece of granite I got, and the stool that I use instead of a work bench. I use this rather than going out to the garage shop so I can still be by the TV and computer when I'm carving. Ken

I always copy and paste the pics I want to upload to my desktop, that way I don't have to go looking, and i know whats being uploaded. Ken

I finished this the other night and was going to post it then, but we all know that there was the site went down. SO GLAD it's back up and running. Anyways, here's the seat I did for a customer in Sonora California, it's a Corbin seat that he wanted redone. There is a picture of the bike it will be going on, and as soon as he sends me a picture of the seat on the bike I'll post it as well. Thanks for looking. Ken

Jordan, very nice looking holsters. How do you do your dying on those? Ken

Looks real good rawhider. I'm going to have to learn how to do those neat looking knots, I'm always impressed by you guys that make them. Ken

Thanks Eric, I appreciate the compliments very much. Good luck on your journey through Leather Land, and hope that you get as much enjoyment out of it as I have. Ken

Nice job there Grunt, what did you use to color it black with? Ken

Very nice Bill. The roughout seems to take to forming better than the other way. Ken

Roger, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying about having problems. The seat so far looks GREAT, and I hope to see it finished soon. The vest looks real good too. Does "Little Beeza" do any tooling yet? Ken

That's beautiful Twin, very well done. Ken

Welcome to the forum Eric. It's great to have you here now that we're back up and running. You are also going to need a piece of granite to do your stamping and carving on. This will give you the solid backing that is needed for deep impressions. I, like a lot of other people here just stopped by a local granite countertop company and asked if I could rummage through thier scrap pile for a piece. They said no problem and showed me out back to where it was. After digging through the pile I found the perfect piece for my nneds and went back inside to pay for it. Both people refused adimantly to accept any money, saying it was just scrap and they throw it away anyways. I returned later with donuts (not the ones you find here) and they were very pleased. As stated above by Twin, you are most likely better off having a look at the stamps and tools that are in the Tandy cataloque, and determine from there what you are looking at doing, then purchase a few tools to get you started. Once you have a good understanding of what you can and can't do, you will more able to determine what else you need. Hope this helps, and looking forward to seeing your progress. Ken