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Thanks everyone. After seven months of work, it's finally starting to show. I can't wait to see where this takes me in the next year or so!

Thanks Rudi... It's a pointed beveler. And yes, it is.

A co-worker loved my eagle pouch so much, he asked for it on a holster, but is a different color. Things are finally starting to come together

Thanks everyone! Bryan, you crack me up...

Modified my other pattern to fit a 3 inch 1911, put my beloved eagle on the front and I am totally digging it! Finally got the hang of stitching and edging, I think.

Thanks guys... its a cool pattern, but its a PITA.

Tried the hand carved basket weave on this one. Its a rough test of concept and I made some errors, but its not bad. Still needs the holes punched, but you get the idea.

No, I had email contact with one of the members in December. They still have monthly meetings, but I didn't get a very positive response from the person I was speaking to. Left a bad taste, to be honest. Let me know if anyone goes. I'd like to check it out.

Thanks H factor!

Thats really cool dude.

Thank's everyone. This was a fun project.

IT looks like you're doing a lot of things with the leather too wet. The overall appearance of the holsters just looks like you rushed it a bit. I know how impatient I can be and its hard to slow down. Also, the yellow thread is distracting IMO.

Yep, its backgrounded. The yellow Fiebings makes can give you that color with some help. The finish or mixing the dye would work. Angelus might make that exact color too.

Ed, thanks. The shape just screamed out at me. Do something different...so i did

Well dang! I stumbled onto something useful for a change! Sweet!

Benlilly, I haven't used it yet. I wanted to use it to mold the case I made for it, but I needed it for wet molding! I can totally see how it will be nice for that though.

Thanks everyone! Bluesman, you're right. I wet formed after tooling and dye, so I was just careful about the eagle and sort of molded around him.

That is a solid, well made piece!

Thanks dude! I totally do, and I have to admit I'm pretty stoked about this one. It was like the old Recee's peanut butter cup commercials... You got chocolate in my peanut butter! You got peanut butter on my chocolate! Hey, wait a minute...

As a first responder, I see this regularly, and after 19 years, it NEVER gets easy. I try and be supportive and explain that it's just stuff, but it so much more than that. It's people's entire lives. Your husband is an amazing man. Trips for the animals and tools... Awesome. I wish you the best and I hope you can get your life back to normal soon. Mike

So, last week I carved an eagle head which started out as an exercise in finger cuts. I liked it so much I couldn't resist tooling it a little bit. Then, I decided I could do it better. That turned into another eagle that looked even better IMO. Yesterday, I got my new glass slicker from Barry King and I decided to make a pouch for it using my new eagle. I also used a new tools, my 8 SPI over stitch wheel to mark the stitches, my new Douglass tools awl and my old stitching horse. It's truly amazing how having the right tools for the job makes everything more enjoyable. I realize that the slicker probably doesn't need a pouch, but if this were about NEED, many of us wouldn't be here

Thanks everyone!

BADASS!!! That is all...

Mine was already an upgrade so same price! woo hoo!

wait theres added cost? oh no!!!