St8LineGunsmith

I have a round knife that I use for most of the skiving I need to do and I also have a cheese knife I sharpened to use for skiving

Nice work Craig! Welcome to the forum

that is a good looking case there

I love the the integration of the basket weave with the floral design I would like to find that border stamp.

AWESOME!! Thanks for sharing your work Jim

thanks for the patterns!

I use the 3-M 77 spray adhesive for liners. the barge cement works well too.

this is where I buy my foam open cell rebond foam is a good seat cushion foam there are a wide selection of foam to choose from

I recently bought a side of harness/bridle leather from SLC and it tools very well in fact I am planning on making some brazzos Jack shoulder rigs from it with tooling. I is my thoughts to resist the surface so just the tooled area would take the finish. the eco flo antiquing gel should work well for highlighting the tooling of the already finished Harness leather.

I have had an oppurtunity to use several of the pro stamps and I think they make very good impressions. they are made from stainless and not chrome plated so they will basically last forever pending a nuclear blast they are however a bit pricey so the level of use would dictate whether or notsomeone would need to buy the stamps. I also used the small pro swivel knife with the angled blade and I really love the feel and its precision.If I did leatherwork for a living I would love to have these tools however I do pretty well with the regular craft tools.

The whole rig is Very nice I especially like the paddle holster and the bullet holder.

I have found the best thing in the world for edge coatting without using wax and makes the edges slicker than owl shit and requires very little burnishing and is great for finishing of the whole project. I even use it for background inlay, truly an all purpose finish IMO you have to try the eco flo antiquing gel I use it religiously then apply a WBPU for a protective top coat FYI the ECO FLO Super Sheen is basically the same thing as Min wax Polycrylic that you can pick up a whole quart can at Walmart for the same price as a four OZ bottle of super sheen from Tandy.. Just thought some of you might like to know.

if you want to make a living in leather work go to work for a saddle shop

a pancake from start to finish, no tooling 4 to 5 hours but I hand stitch everything. give or take 8 hours for the wet molding to completely dry but that time is not added into the labor. someone with a sewing machine could probably cut my labor time in half. the more elaborate the design and stitching requires more time.

Looks Good Nice work.

Hello and welcome to the forum I am in Rossville, GA

that is good to know camo ridge I just now had them send me an invoice for an 1858 Remington new army mold gun really the only place I could find percussion cap mold guns

Hidepounder If i were to be able to have any shop in this thread I like your layout the most I would love to be able to have a 3'x8'x36" tall cutting table I like my little harbor freight hard wood work bench for carving and assembly but I would like to have a log cut the same height as my work bench by 12" in diameter with a slab of granite on top for carving kind of like the setup Nigel has. that would be the ideal work space for tooling just about any size project I would make not to mention it is perfect for installing hardware and other procedures plus it is somewhat a mobile work surface and I love how he has his tols right handy there where he needs them. I would love to upload some pics of my little shop and my projects but I lost the cord for my camera

Cheryl Thanks for that link I have been trying to find percussion cap revolver holster molds for some time now thanks to you I dont have to look any further.

I had a super RedHawk and You aren't just joking when you said behemoth hand cannon those things are all gun! and nice rig too BTW.

there are a lot of uses for the veiner I found two other stamps I like for basket weave pattern and border