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The very best way to do this is to make your own patterns that look nice to you poster paper works good for this I can say I have never used a ready made pattern unless I made it I always hear people saying do you have a pattern for this or that the very best way is make your own patterns , sharpen your own knifes, make your own designs but don't do all this blindly do your research one more thing " It's up to you to know everything" Good luck in all that you do.

Texas Custom Dies @ the top of this page really good dies.

It may not really be Necessary like the seat belts in your car I've been driving for fifty years and haven't needed them yet, . when people say why do you carry a gun they say you don't need a gun I tell them your right I don't until I do. Glad to see you were thinking about it .

Nice work! but I have always made my aprons so they will pull off just incase if caught in a machine when I was a young man my neighbor lost his testicles because of a loose apron. So now all of my connections are Velcro you can still get the look with buckles and all that but Velcro at the hard connection points.

where be the knife

Beautiful job !

would really like to see that when it's done, I would think you would need to augment the leather around the hole so if your going to line the back side maybe a piece of 4 oz skived or not but I like it. now you went and got me thinking.

TEXAS CUSTOM DIES.

Welcome from " Boston the hub of the universe where it all started". Your just 3,090 miles or just a 51 hour drive anyway Welcome ! have fun with it.

Very cool excellent work !

That's a first class job Dwight as with all the work I see you do. I'm sure they are going to love that. Thanks for showing.

Bathroom tub and tile mildew cleaner in small amounts then oil it this has worked for me.

wow very cool

nice work !

sorry did not see this had some problems last week and was away yes it does but not to many places to go thanks for asking.

that spider thing sounds a bitt strange .

looks like a nice rig ! but that front piece across the chest sure looks like a nipple pincher to me.

I once heard a minister say something very close to that . LOL

You need wood block head shape 1. 5" thick taper to match hat height . for the upper hat I would use 3oz vegtan with bag stiffener and satin liner . for the brim same 3oz vegtan with bag stiffener in between 3oz top and bottom glued and stitched around outer brim with a nice burnished edge. finish Black pro dye with top coat of resolean top seam flat French hand stitch no overlap 6" brim skive glue and stitch to top ,hat liner inner band stitched at the same time hat height around 14" hat dia head plus11" Price around $550.00 each

Spyros thanks for helping out you said everything I should have said LOL good advice my friend .

never use junk use the best and do your best work , and if it's not good do it again. but don't use junk or all you will get is junk.

Ferg that's very nice work. I'll never see your age, life was a pretty rough ride for me heck I never got the 500 mile break in, not complaining just sayin. but that's some very nice work my friend.

Yes I did I was not sure at the time if the roon would bleed in the tooling on the very outside edge but inside around the letters that's black dye and even at that it was a lot of work thanks for asking .

Beautiful work!

I can't think who it was either but we must have saw the same thing because it was a game changer for me also that's funny we sharpen the exact same way and it's very fast and effective . I can get ten strops or more before going back to the stone, and at that it's just a quick touch.