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    Finished this and sending out. The sealant put a lot of shine to it so that's why

    it is tilted. Anyway this is how far my skill as developed.post-13948-095685100 1330608151_thumb.jp

    Thanks for looking and commenting.

    Joe St.

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    Joe it's wonderful. I love the pipe things you do, and i especially loved that you displayed this by some of your pipes, and tobacco. The only thing I would've done different, if I'd remembered it, is sand the edges a tad and put your sealant there too. I don't always remember my edges. But you are really coming along with your technique. Cheryl

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    Thanks for your reply Cheryl. I appreciate your time.

    The leather I have is, as you quite rightly point out, soft and it does have some stretch. I am not convinced that it will lend itself to beveling but I will try. The underside is quite rough and 'hairy' (sorry, don't know what the correct term is) so it really does need to be neatened if I hope to use it. I will attempt to cut proper lace too as I have been doing it by hand with sharp shears to date! Yes, I really do have to get myself some proper leather working tools!

    The reason I planned to use a paracord core was to give my leads added strength and stability. In their current state, ie. without a core, the braids I've made have quite a bit of give in them and I don't believe they will last. I guess this is all trial and error - if my leather doesn't work, I will simply purchase some roo lacing and use that instead.

    I have loads more questions but I will reserve them for another time. Don't want to overdo my welcome lol!

    Thanks again and I will be sure to post again once I have made some advances (hopefully!)

    Teresa

    Hi Teresa. I was unclear in my post, which is about every post I make. I wasn't recommending you bevel the edges, I just said if you were GOING to bevel, I liked my french beveler the best, LOL.

    the braids I've made have quite a bit of give in them and I don't believe they will last.

    It is that 'give' I'm talking about and why I don't think the leather you are using will work out for the leads and collars. I think you're always going to have those 'wiggly' areas that aren't tight to the braid. They'd probably last ok; I read that braided leather (maybe anything, I don't remember) is stronger than the original piece the thongs were cut from.

    You ask all the questions you want to. I'm sure some others more knowledgeable than I am will jump in today. Good luck!!! Cheryl

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    Currently not much unfortunately, full day job takes most of time, so all I still can do just tooling scraps for practice. But I hope more coming soon :)

    Cheers and keep moving on with you great stuff!

    That's what I should do at least an hour a day but I swear I don't know where I'd get an hour. But I love doing free hand things, and I'm getting to the place where my beveler and swivel knife don't scare the bejeebers out of me rofl.gif. Right now I'm working on 4 separate projects. I love it, I love the madness of it all but last weekend when I just sat down and did that bronc nose band, it was such a peaceful feeling. BUT one of my projects is a satchel I got the idea for at a website of a member here, who had a beautiful purse made out of blue jean shorts. I remembered I had a pair of carpenter jeans I can't wear anymore, and I'm going to add leather to them that's tooled with something, haven't gotten that far yet, and make it just absolutely wild, add anything I want to it, and I'll have a, oh what do you call it? anyway, nooks and crannies etc. so I can put SAMPLES, that's it, a sample bag for when we start hitting the streets with my things. So I just gathered everything I could possible think of I might need and gonna start on that.

    I'm just having so much fun Suicide, I really am. I'd like to see some coasters or SOMETHING from you. Can't you practice on something like that honey so we can see? I'd love to just see your practice stuff on scraps. Cheryl

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    Wow now that is very cool - you did a awesome job ( that is some nice team work too) congratulations - I see where you have endless variations that you can do.

    gosh, thanks CowboyDon. Most people don't 'get it' when they see I picked this one of my 3 to start my local selling with. And I was hand drawing them from a picture of my horse's eye. And when I asked Kevin if he thought he could make a mold.....I sent him the picture of my best one, and now there's the molded one, painted all up. I have a hand drawn one of these on the check book cover/ card hold I'm making for me. I have one hand drawn on a small satchel I'm making to carry these and other samples in. I have the 4th one I ever drew that finally looked like a horse eye if you tilt your head to the right and hold your mouth right, around my neck. It's my talisman/worry stone. I could use one of the nicer ones of course, but this was the one that kicked things off for me as far as help from some local agencies. I have made Kevin a stockholder (not legally YET) and he just laughs at me. He spends a lot of time online laughing at meblush.gif I guess he figures stock in a company that the forum is donating supplies to isn't anything to get too excited about. But it's been such a fun journey and just knowing I CAN'T mess them up makes it even more fun. When I dye them, if I have an oooops, it can always become a different color, etc. Because the eye itself is perfect, or I think so.

    Thanks for your kind words, really. Cheryl

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    Got in my leather order today for the 1951 Ford Pick up project. I thought I would start by making a couple miniature size ones so we can get an idea of where we are heading. These are the size of my hand right now but will be 37" x 37" or 90cm x 90cm for all my metric user buddies out there:)

    Obviously I am going to have so much more room for a lot of detail, but these little mock ups are just to cool not to share!

    I can't wait to dive into these this weekend...I am thinking about 200hrs each before they are done....

    Again these are just spit ball ideas for the panels now:)

    IT IS A RAT ROD 51...The owner has done a lot to the bottom side and now ready for the road, but the interior is going to be sick! We are starting with the door panels and will do the seat and rear upholstery and headliner. But first things first...Door Panels:)

    So enjoy!

    Please don't move this, I'll never find you again, LOLOL

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    Hi, I am very new to leather work but have always been fascinated by it. As an offshoot to making whippet coats, I am now embarking on making leather whippet collars and, hopefully, leather braided/beaded show leads for all breeds. I realise this topic has been done before (I did a search on this forum) so my questions are of a more general nature relating to the materials I actually hope to use.

    My son can supply me with endless quantities of various coloured furniture grade leather offcuts. So my question is, can I use this leather to braid leads with? My son produces high end custom furniture so the leather he can get me is very soft. It braids easily - these were my first two attempts several nights ago...

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    ...but I am conscious that I would like to cut my own lacing from the offcuts in time, and ultimately be able to bevel for a professional finish. Am I completely off-beam even thinking of using this leather?

    If so, and if I really do need to buy kangaroo lacing, what width is ideal for top end, quality braided show leads? Suppliers over here (I am in Australia) sell 'roo thonging' by the hank or roll starting at minimum 3mm wide

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    or round thonging starting at .5mm diameter

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    Also, I would like to use paracord as cores for my leads. What diameter paracord should I use?

    Any advice would be very greatly appreciated.

    Cheers,

    w2s

    I can't answer all your questions but I'll try since I just took a break from round braiding rawhide. First I don't think you will be able to use that leather because it's too soft and stretchy. I saw places on your very nice round braiding where small places are 'wiggly' or I don't know the word to use, but too much material for the particular spot not allowing it to lie flat. And I think that's from it stretching while you braided. I don't think beveling will help that but if you do decide to bevel, I recommend a 'french beveler' (others may know of a better one) because the width allows you to 'strop' it and keep it nice and sharp.

    And i'm confused by your question about a core. Why do you need one? I just use 4 pieces of rawhide and do the braid. If you wanted it thicker, you could use 8 pieces of whatever you are using to braid with but maybe a core is less expensive? I don't know anything about cores.

    I also don't know anything about roo lace except your pictures of it are pretty. If it's stretchy don't use it is all I can say because you will end up with gaps in your braiding. I hope this was a little help. Cheryl

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    Great job, Cheryl! Really nice one. :specool:

    Thanks so much. I have another one molding while i work on other projects. I showed my VOW counselor today and asked him id I should have just done the eye like the one Kevin did, or if adding the detail looked ok. He said, you got 49 more conchos, do them all kinds of ways because you are going to be the Concho Queen of Rutlandtongue.gif

    Suicide I haven't seen anything by you recently. Are you working your leather? (Maybe it's because i seem to post something every day about me of course, that it seems like it's been a while for you.) Anyway, Thanks again. Cheryl

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    I have a whole pigskin suede piece, but it's red. I guess i could check the seller and see if he has something a tad less shocking, but I'd never be able to cut out those scallops. I'm not sure how dressy they would look with my cutting skills. I have it all ready to paint. Any suggestions on the scallops? Maybe do the eye, add a round piece of pigskin, and after it dries trim it around the scallops? Also if i wet it a little on the left edge, and add the forelock and a couple of bevel lines in it will it hurt the eye? I'm thinking of doing a liver chestnut, or maybe a regular chestnut. or maybe a blood bay like Sienna, too many choices, I swear. It's hard to tell Sienna is a blood bay from the winter pics, but I'm uploading a pic of her in the summer, in my 50 buck saddle I bought, LOL . I had just finished cleaning it up and realized I didn't think it had ever been used and wanted pics of it. And her of course, I never get tired of taking her picture.

    Isn't she beautiful? I mean she is so well proportioned and a horse is such a thing of beauty anyway, I think. So there is the REAL creator of In the Eye of a Horse.

    Just dawned on me you guys may be watching this topic, so I'm adding the finished picture here too. I swear I'm still so excited I can hardly sit still.

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    Now you can add some suede to the back of it and really dress it up.

    I have my paints and dyes, brushes, warm water and a sponge, rags and I'm afraid to touch it. I did this once before, I don't remember what project. After all I only have 49 more conchos I can mold head_hurts_kr.gifI know this is ridiculous but it is what it is. It doesn't matter how many times I say that to myself.

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    Now you can add some suede to the back of it and really dress it up.

    I have a whole pigskin suede piece, but it's red. I guess i could check the seller and see if he has something a tad less shocking, but I'd never be able to cut out those scallops. I'm not sure how dressy they would look with my cutting skills. I have it all ready to paint. Any suggestions on the scallops? Maybe do the eye, add a round piece of pigskin, and after it dries trim it around the scallops? Also if i wet it a little on the left edge, and add the forelock and a couple of bevel lines in it will it hurt the eye? I'm thinking of doing a liver chestnut, or maybe a regular chestnut. or maybe a blood bay like Sienna, too many choices, I swear. It's hard to tell Sienna is a blood bay from the winter pics, but I'm uploading a pic of her in the summer, in my 50 buck saddle I bought, LOL . I had just finished cleaning it up and realized I didn't think it had ever been used and wanted pics of it. And her of course, I never get tired of taking her picture.

    Isn't she beautiful? I mean she is so well proportioned and a horse is such a thing of beauty anyway, I think. So there is the REAL creator of In the Eye of a Horse.

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    hey you guys. this is not to be a bashing contest on who does what with whatever. this is to be a friendly site to help each other out on there leather skills and to learn to get better or what to improve on. if you cant help each other on what one does then dont say anything at all. bashing is not what this site is for. play nice or dont play at all. ty have a nice day.:wave:

    Thank you Broncbuster. I tried to make that point, but too late. My initial response to Catskin was rude and it was sarcastic, and I was ashamed of that so chose not to respond anymore. Actually I owe him a personal apology, and will do that after responding to you. I take critiques pretty well, but not someone critical of my choices so good, but I have GOT to learn to count to 10, take deep breaths and realize we all come from different places on this site, and I don't mean geographically. Thank you for the reminder of why I'm here, and that certainly isn't to fight with people. Cheryl

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    Thank you, now if I can only get her to wait until they dry before she scans them. :rofl:

    Only slightly impulsive under the circumstances. Do you KNOW how long 3 hours is? Every time I started to 'peek' I heard the Cajun Chef saying, uh uh, don't you lift that lid. You ruin that jambalaya so you just have some wine cause that's mo better.....party26.gif

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    Kev, I swear I'm so happy and excited my hands are shaking. I haven't had a beer in two months, but I swear this could be the day, LOL. You are the kindest, funniest, most even tempered person I know. And the only person that could me a 5 word message and have me scrambling to redo an entire project. I'm going to keep this up and everyone else is going to start barfing in the corners but I just wished there was 100 of you to help everyone who came to this board.

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    I'm so excited I just sent him a blank email and had to resend. Kevin made me this mold for my In the Eye of a Horse products. Man's a freakin genius, I swear he is. This is my very first one I molded, had to wait until I got a c clamp. He CARVED this in wood by hand. Amazing really. I'm too, well just too to say anything else.

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    I answer your sarcastic question with an honest one of my own. How many horses have you taken from never having been touched by a man and trained them to the point that almost every person that knows how to ride wanted to buy them? And how many days have you spent 14 hours in the saddle? . But then I am talking about WORKING ranch type horses not some walk down a trail for an hour type.

    As for your rope halter it might be fit for a pet horse that never pulls. But I have seen to many self declared know it alls do very serious harm to a green horse by tying them with these knoted ropes. Now I know why those are called BLOOD knots. You are right on one thing they do cut in deeply in very sensitive areas on the horse and do draw BLOOD.. But I am convinced you have never seen a real bronc halter. So how would you know the difference.

    Catskin, I have my own horse, number 4 in over a 42 year span. She was a rescue, and before I'd had her a month someone offered me double what I paid for her. In two months the barn owner was using her for a kid lesson horse when I wasn't riding. I've spent many a day in my life time working on a ranch 14 hour days, not just hanging out in a saddle but building fence, fixing barn roofs, haying, etc. You came here and wanted to bash something I put up for critique to help improve my leather working skills, and if you thought my answer was sarcastic, I can't help that.

    A real bronc halter is made to keep a buster from having an unfair advantage over a bronc from putting too much pressure in just one area. I don't make my living buying and selling horses. I am in for the long haul. Am I supposed to moderate people's choices who have started finding these attractive as show halters. I have never tied my horse in her rope halter and if you look at my profile picture you'll see a regular halter over the rope one while she's tied in the cross ties. I've never done a thing to you and I don't even know you, and i certainly have no quarrel with you. This was about a critique, not who's the best cowboy, or rider, or trainer or bronc buster. Cheryl

    I answer your sarcastic question with an honest one of my own. How many horses have you taken from never having been touched by a man and trained them to the point that almost every person that knows how to ride wanted to buy them? And how many days have you spent 14 hours in the saddle? . But then I am talking about WORKING ranch type horses not some walk down a trail for an hour type.

    As for your rope halter it might be fit for a pet horse that never pulls. But I have seen to many self declared know it alls do very serious harm to a green horse by tying them with these knoted ropes. Now I know why those are called BLOOD knots. You are right on one thing they do cut in deeply in very sensitive areas on the horse and do draw BLOOD.. But I am convinced you have never seen a real bronc halter. So how would you know the difference.

    Catskin, I have my own horse, number 4 in over a 42 year span. She was a rescue, and before I'd had her a month someone offered me double what I paid for her. In two months the barn owner was using her for a kid lesson horse when I wasn't riding. I've spent many a day in my life time working on a ranch 14 hour days, not just hanging out in a saddle but building fence, fixing barn roofs, haying, etc. You came here and wanted to bash something I put up for critique to help improve my leather working skills, and if you thought my answer was sarcastic, I can't help that.

    A real bronc halter is made to keep a buster from having an unfair advantage over a bronc from putting too much pressure in just one area. I don't make my living buying and selling horses. I am in for the long haul. Am I supposed to moderate people's choices who have started finding these attractive as show halters. I have never tied my horse in her rope halter and if you look at my profile picture you'll see a regular halter over the rope one while she's tied in the cross ties. I've never done a thing to you and I don't even know you, and i certainly have no quarrel with you. This was about a critique, not who's the best cowboy, or rider, or trainer or bronc buster. Cheryl

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    What on earth are rhythm beads? I've worked with horses for near 60 years and never heard of them.

    I think what you are calling a BRONCO halter is just a light knoted rope halter with some leather hung on the nose band it sure doesn't look like it would stand snubbing a bronco with.

    rofl.gif

    Get to town much Catskin? They use these for show halters now, although breaking a rope halter is pretty hard to do, even by the orneriest bronc. And since the rope halters are made with 1 piece of rope and blood knots, they aren't too bad at getting a horses attention since they are situated on pressure points.

    Rhythm beads are a decorative, or not, piece of leather that goes around a horse's neck and has bells on them. They are used by riding instructors to help their students stay in 'rhythm' with the horse, dressage trainers and riders to 'hear' that every move is in sync, and just us regular ole folk who have horses and want to ride better.

    If there's anything else I can help you with, please don't hesitate to ask. Cheryl

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    As you may or may not know I have been tied up with In the Eye of a Horse and rhythm beads lately because that's 2 of the three products we decided on to lead off with. Kevin here made me an eye mold, you may know him as the Gri, I mean Tree Reaper but I have be waiting on supplies coming today to use it. AND make a new set of beads. And I was happy about it all weekend which is kinda sad but it allowed me to work on something else. I made this rope halter a while back just to see if i could. I do a LOT of things for that reason, but don't k now why. Thanks for looking. Cheryl

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    My customer asked me to make a hatband, whatever I wanted. Well that may work for some, but I needed some kind of direction.

    She said she liked my leather feathers, and scrolls, so I asked for a color, and she said turquoise.

    This is what she got. She loved it!

    She loved it? Did she pay you a gazillion dollars because it is gorgeous. I'll admit I downloaded two of your pics so I can make one for me......well kinda after i get a hat! Absolutely beautiful work.

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