LederRudi

Another flawless piece! Beautiful design, beautiful Carving, perfect stitching! What you are telling about the thread might for my Level of understanding as well be chinese. I'm using thick prewaxed thread from Tandy. Some of it responds to the lighter flame after finishing the stitching, some of it doesn't. That's all I can say. Seems that I have to do some research in this field.

Another unique creation! It's evident, that you love to create! I like especially the ingenious/simple way the eye is tucked under the pig Skin. The necessary cut in the pig skin is totally consistent with the shape of an eye!

As @JLSleather uses to say: Thank ya, thank ya! PS:

Returning for the umpteenth time, I wish I could reach your level of craftsmanship one day!

That's exactly what I meant !

Beautiful Holster. I enjoy the colloquial snippets that adorn your posts.

Seconding all of the above!

Beautiful, unique! So you "draw" such a picture criss-crossing over a sketch with a sewing machine?

I' m once again blown out of the water by your work! Letting the corners peak out of the lacing makes the bag speak to the future owner: "Don't be shy, give it to me, I want to take in all your groceries!"

Thank you @koreric75. It's just a PowerPoint presentation saved as a sequence of pics. I should have scaled them down.

Thank you Gentlemen! Glad you found my little how-to useful. And @billybopp, I'm fairly sure that Santa's belt is a plain strap of chinese plastic.

Nice work! Looks very authentic, as if it were out of "Packing Iron"!

I'll second that!

- So THIS is just a prototype...? I'd be willing to carry around your bag ten or twenty years for test purposes!

Hi Folks, forgive me for responding only now. Holydays, old age, the left shoulder… Bikermutt07 I feel honored by your drooling! fallequinox Being really an Amateur dabbling in leatherwork, I'm flattered by your kind words! battlemunky Your words made me chuckle once again. No need to steal the guide, it's royalty free! ScoobyNewbie Thank you! Like all dabblers who know a thing or two about their field, I will take on the air of an expert or teacher:

Thank you ALL for your kind words! I didn't expect THAT much of a response! VYO, Todd, noobleather There is no such thing as perfection, I believe. There is always the occasional lapse of concentration, fatigue sets in, the grasp of the tool loosens... There ARE imperfections in about 330 impressions per meter – at least as far as MY OWN work is concerned. I try to hide and minimize the mistakes: I do not cut the borderline, I use a stitching groover instead. The width of the channel will swallow up some lack of precision. The use of a modeling spoon evens out small mistakes and adds a bit of a bevel on the inside. Personally I prefer the angled BW to the bricklayer design which raises the question how much of an angle it should be. IMHO each kind of stamp requires its own angle It’s usually in the vicinity of 30 degrees (but not QUITE 30 degrees!). The proper angle can be determined empirically (measuring bricklayer rows). I found that my favorite BW stamp requires a whiff more than 31 degrees and made a guide out of scrap leather. benlilly1 Commenting on one of Don Gonzales’s videos I described my method, half expecting that he would dismiss it as foolishness, but he politely called it a good idea. JLSleather I see your point. I was indeed tempted to put border tool impressions between the BW legs. But I was also tempted to give in to my minimalistic aesthetic feeling and…I won! bikermutt07, battlemunky The belt will be a birthday gift for a friend who almost always wears existentialist black. So it unfortunately has to be black. nrk I've never used tan cote. So it's about time to try it, I guess.

Berry King basket stamp, no border tool. The belt will be dyed black. Before stamping I usually apply two coats of resolene on the flesh side instead of taping or glueing to cardboard. Seems to work just fine. Comments welcome.

That's a great idea. I'd place "sic" one or two bends back on the left side of the ribbon although the letters might be partially hidden (in order to avoid "semper tyrannis sic").

Excellent work! However the latin tyrants would need another "n". I'd add a short horizontal stroke above the "n" which doubles "n" or "m" in older scriptures.

I used to drink a lot of beer, and I still like beer a lot! Such a horn woulda been also a useful weapon in my bar fights back then when I studied hard for my bar exam. Forgive me, I just couldn't resist... Nice work!

I like the concept, its professional execution and the part about the gut.

I'm also sure that the pattern conforms to the rig actually worn by Kevin Kostner. And … I'm beginning to like it.

Expertly crafted rig! As if Charlie Waite just had unbuckled it. I've also tried my hand on some of Will Ghormley's patterns. I like them, but ... in this particular case I'd prefer the middle bulge (hump? bump?) of the holster to sit between the loops (instead of being covered by the lower one). Wouldn't that be the whole point of the Cheyenne style?

Thanks for the info, Bob!