immiketoo

Because someone asked

Very clever use of leather. I love the wood textures..

You also need good ventilation to get the toxins out of the room. Otherwise you take off your mask and still breathe the fumes. Get a 3M vapor rated mask and you'll be fine, but ventilate the room too.

Absolutely sellable. Good luck at the show!

This item would be mostly useless to me. Even if I was going to make a large run of belts, it would never give me the control I want for my edges. I use the cone shaped cheapie as well, but I took the cone out of the handle and roll it between my fingers.

I use four oz lined on all my holsters. I won't build an unlined one anymore due to the strength and rigidity that comes from lining. It's almost like wood when its dry, and there is "click" retention on most firearms. That would pair nicely with your kydex paddle.

With the galvanized steel, you would most likely be looking at an avenger style holster or one that is folded at the sight channel. The reason steel is nice is that's malleable. You can lay it flat, carve your leather, stitch it inside and then curve it to the shape you want already tooled and stitched. The glue and stitch line will keep it in place. It is a process of exploration for you and there is only one way to do it. Prototyping and as you said, to wing it. IT doesn't change the overall design much, but it opens a lot of doors. Have to agree with Dwight here, 4 layers of molded veg tan can be very solid, and it will take a lot of abuse. I hadn't thought about rawhide. Good call!

If you already have a pattern, adding a steel insert should be relatively easy to adjust. I use galvanized steel in mine because its firm, thin and malleable. Kydex is a pita but doable if you have the skills. Usually, you just add a stiffener between leather layers, but if you wanted to , you could build the whole rig in metal and cover with leather.

I have seen a lot of leather art, and that tiger is amazing. The bracelet was out of his bag for 5 seconds and I said I had to have it. Fine work for sure!