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A friend of mine's wife bought a new leather purse (he said it is florentine- vacchetta leather ?) , he said it was fairly expensive. She had vinegar and oil salad dressing spilled on it and it stained it a little. My question is, what (if anything) would be good to remove these stains? thank you

That is a beautiful holster, i love the colors.

I'm not an expert, but i think you did a really nice job. Maybe for a little neater job slick the edges.

It is a hydraulic press, that presses dies into leather to cut out shapes such as holsters. or any item that you need to produce alot of. It basically saves you time vs. cutting the item out by hand. Alot of leather supply companies sell high dollar electric/hydraulic presses for several thousand dollars. You can get by with with a shop press, modified (if needed) to use the dies, and save yourself alot of money.

I assume you are talking about Cowboy Sew. I got a 441 shortarm machine from Neel's Saddlery. It is almost identically equipped as the Artisan Toro 3000 (I say almost because i have only read specs. on the artisan website or flyers). Anyways, i know you asked about Cowboy sewing machines, my point is they(Cowboy Sew and Neel's saddelry) from what i was told have some kind of business thing going. They sell the same machines. If you look at Cowboy Sew website Ryan Neel is listed on there as some sort of engineer. I know I am rambling now, I have been very happy with my machine so far. I drove up to Neel's Saddlery and picked up my machine and they took about 2- 2 1/2 hours going over how to set up and use my machine. They were very friendly, and if i called them with "dumb" questions Ryan did not make me feel like a dummy. Plus, his price was about $100 to $200 cheaper than artisan. I am just trying to pass along my experience, i have only heard good things about Artisan, but for me i had to go with the money.

Very nice job

My only comment is that it is freekin' cool. very nice work

That's funny. It reminded me of my 4 year old daughter the other day, i was laying something out, and she pulled up a chair to help. I ended up holding the stamp or whatever it was i had and she got to swing the 2 lb maul, it only took about two good hits to the hand before i found something else for her to do.

hey my email is russellg74@yahoo.com, email me and i will call my buddy and find out if he is still willing.

I don't have any advice but they look very nice, especially considering they are your first couple. I have made a couple recently and each one required that i start over twice to make one good one. Keep up the good work.

Weaver Leather sells a slicker made of plastic or wood (whichever you prefer) that you can chuck up in a drill press. It has several angles and grooves for slicking leather. I don't believe it has a groove large enough for 3/4", but if you know someone with a wood lathe they could make the same thing to your specifications in a few minutes. Hope this helps

Beautiful work.

Thats pretty awesome, the sheath and the knife.

Luke that is pretty interesting that your stitching horse has a history like that, it definitely looks like it was built to last. I probably need to add some padding to my seat, you' re just giving me all sorts of ideas. Barra, draw the outline of your clamp on your board and use a bandsaw to cut it out, cut as close to the line as you dare and then just sand it from there. that is the way my buddy did this one, you could leave some of the saw marks in to give some character or give that made on the farm look.

I hope mine holds up for 20 years. What is your seat made out of? It looks like spray foam from here. My buddy said if he makes any more he wants to make some improvements to the legs, as far as the nylon is concerned he would have to make wider slots probably, the ones on mine are only an inch wide once that leather wears out i will probably widen the slots like yours and use nylon. thanks for the the idea