bluesman1951

WOW !!!!!!!! Mighty fine !!!!! Superb craftsmanship !!!! I like it !!! Well done . Time well spent ! Bill

Excellant product should sell well . What is your price wholesale and retail ? Looks very well constructed, shelf ready . My compliments on a great idea . .Please let us know how this is recived by the public. Nothing really matters till the customer reaches for their money and says "I want one of those " Bill

Your work is clean ,sharp ,elegant,refined and just plain well done ! Thank you for sharing your work with us . Very Very nice !

I am afraid of nothing but that head knife ,everthing else is routine after this amount of time . Most days things have a harmonious out come on my bench . No longer afraid of prices or budgets ,generaly no matter how huge the mistake there is a way to make art from it . Slow steady and safe ,never work when you are tired if you have a rule dont break it period no matter what . NO BEVERAGES ON THE BENCH EVER !!!!!! NO eating on the bench , Wash your hands ,no greasy finger prints on the leather , if its open it will spill !!!!! beyond that if you dont know dont go ,ask somebody .

Very cool ,first class looking tools . I can assure you that we arent buying anything that nice at our Tandy stores in America . LOL!! Different approach but it gets the job done first class . I was very impressed with the cornors in the first picture neat way to get that job done . That gets a big round of applause from me ! I like your work and your style ,thank you very much for showing us your work and your process. My sincere compliments ,well done . Thanks ! Bill

Hi Thanks for showing us your work ! I am not a tooling person so I can offer no feed back on the tooling . As one artist to another I can appericate the time spent at the bench . I know from the first cut to the last stamp you were showing great care with your project . Nicely done ! My best wishes for much happy time at the bench . Never tried any tooling so I can assure you this work is far better than any attempt I would make . All my best . Thank you for showing us your work . Bill

Very nicely done . Very classy . I like the colour and the stitching/lacing on the edge . Time well spent ! Bill

I like your bag and looked at it for about ten minutes asking myself "What would I do "? With this thick leather you may need to make a wooden form to mold the gusset and curl the edges so it slips in between your front and back pieces ready to go . My experience with the overstitch wheels is the stitches are too close together for awl work thick leather . By hand its tough to keep the depth of penetration and straightness perfect with each stitch using awl. I use a 3/4 inch thick cutting board plastic as backing for all my pricking iron work . The problem appears that with a awl the bag is not addressed at a perfect 90 degree angle each time . This could be solved with a drill press approach then getting the bag to lay flat at the edge and set a stop for puncture depth . You are in Long Beach stop by a machine shop and see if something can be made ,maybe even a special pliers could be made to acomplish this job. I am not sure I would use the stitching groove ,that leather is soft enough that good stitch tension will bring the thread level with the surface or just below it . That gets rid of one issue ,keeping the stitch in the line of the groove . This requires some more thought for sure , Personaly the cost of the thicker leather and the difficulty of working with it would give me serious pause in production of a bag like this .All things considered this bag moves into the "Saddle Back Learther Bags " arena if there was a market for it at 350.00 plus and production was streamlined to the max it might be worth a go . That said ,I really like it ,tough solid all the things a last forever bag needs to survive the test of time . Best wishes for sucess with your project and I would like to see more of your work . Bill

This is nice work ,just fine ! I have been there many times when the edge dye gets away . I offered to myself this advise: Go slower ,burnish more I try and still mine arent perfect . Just saying I know the feeling . These will last ,give good service , and wear well . Nice job ! Dont sweat the small stuff . Bill

There is a big market for this in New Mexico . Are you native ? Nice work

I like this a lot . In fact even though I have a very nice sit down stitching horse ,I would buy one of these if the price was right . As a long time hand stitcher the only down side I see to this is your knob is going to catch a long string a million times. Sewing short stuff wallets and stuff will be a breeze . Send me a private message if you want to sell me one . Well done sir ,nice job . I am interested in one . Bill

Time well spent sir ! First class work !!! Very nice ! I could use a new belt want to be friends ? LOL . Seriosly its very nice and completely well done . I would give it a big round of applause ,no need to worry about fast . Bill

Well done ,My compliments on creating a fine project under difficult conditions . One can see this was made with love and care . Congradulations time well spent . This will give good service and last a long time . Thanks for the story and showing us your work . I enjoyed very much . Bill

Amazing work ! Impressive web site as well ,nicely done ! I really enjoyed the bags . Thanks for showing us this . Bill

My compliments !!! The time spent on this was well used . First class work ! May your projects bring you prosperity . Love to see more of your work . Thank you for showing us this fine work . Good Luck with all that you do . Bill

The only one I know of who can handle this volume is The Hide House in Napa California . www.hidehouse.com ask for Jen Good Luck . Bill

Very nice work ,clean ,efficent extremely appealing ! very markable ! Well done ! Bill

Superb ,craftsmanship ,big round of applause from me !!!! Just plain well done ,time well spent . My compliments sir ,this will last forever and take any thing life has to give . This has all the class and durability of a fine pocket watch ,timeless ! Congradulations ! Bill

I like your work very much .I belive I promised you some pictures of the stitching horse . It is my plan to clear it off and take it out side and shoot a ton of pictures this afternoon. My email is :bluesman1951@hotmail.com I think I have yours but if memory serves me we had a problem the first time . I just sent some patterns off to another member today so today I am using to keep promises . Once I have a sandwhich I am going to take a bunch of pictures and have them ready . One advantage to getting old is :After a certain day no one expects you to do anything fast any more . Hearts willing some days are full of senior moments so please know I am still getting it done . Bill

I am getting more frustrated with this new stuff every day . It dont work this used to be fun now its just ............ Hope all is going well with you . Should I get frustrated and leave my email is :bluesman1951@hotmail.com I would like to stay in touch even if this dont work here . Bill I

Thanks for your words . Sometimes its impossible to filter out the junk in life .Days full of frustrations .Using public transportation will make you a little nuts ,combine that with computers and you have no chance at all .LOL Has any body noticed that spell check dont work here ? I have 6 new designs on the bench at the same time now adding to the frustration level. My patterns normaly make things easy and now for some reason they all seem to be just a little off . I am missing the mark by a quater of a inch every where . Cant seem to find the center of any thing . Any way enough of my stuff . I am gratful you took time from your life to write . For that I thank you sincerely . Bill

Thanks for your words.I get that permission thing every time I wish to look at a picture. Yes I am logged in . Guess its just me having problems . Iam gratful you took time to say something ,thats nice of you . Bill

I am at a loss for words my life is filled with way too many NO's . Road blocks to every thing . Time to unplug all this technology stuff and go for a long walk . Bill