TheLoudOne

Fancy!

Nice!

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The picture is of a clutch the guy showed of a different design of Boyce's. This design is however more of a draw string bag not a backpack. A backpack has straps and a flap to keep the elements out.

YT, I think you found your calling! Nice work!

Thanks! Trying to get the right shading techniques down is pretty difficult. Most all of the coloring was done with spirit dyes are probably mixed up 20 different colors to come up with the shades that I did end up with.

Well I went off the beaten path on my ditty bag. No offense to the designer but to me I thought it looked more like a motorcycle fork bag. So I pulled out an old classic ditty bag design to make as seeing my old bag has seen better days. I also wanted to try my hand at pictorial carving and coloring as I have never done it before. I really got to wishing that I paid more attention in my 6th grade art class. Well it was a challenge and you said we were supposed to be challenged. Hope you like it.

Sorry I'm just getting back to you on this. Big Sioux is exactly right. I get the fat from around the kidneys. It's a real dense fat. I cube it up and remove any membranes possible and toss it in a slow cooker on low. Stir occasionally and let it render down until you just have oil. I skim any membrane still floating and run the rest through a sieve bag or fruit bag for pressing grapes etc to filter the rest. In a separate pot I add roughly 10% cod liver oil, 30% of neatsfoot oil to 60% tallow and toss in a handful of beeswax pellets and let it all melt down and mix well. I actually did the 2/3rds to 1/3rd tallow to neatsfoot and it was to hard to use. I have also found mixing in jars or plastic containers set in a pot of water on the stove aids in keeping things cleaner. Basically a double cooker. It's a curriers grease and anything that will be exposed to the weather I treet with this.

I render beef fat and mix in neatsfoot oil and cod liver oil along with a little beeswax and let cool to a paste. I rub this in and using heat from a hair dryer melt it and rub between my hands. Supple in no time . You have to be careful with just neatsfoot oil. You can turn it to mush. Heat it also and rub between hands. It gets soft fast.

Super armrest!

Don't feel bad. I'm 9 hours ahead of you. :-)

Hey go up to post 139. There is a link to click on.

I know this is an older post but this is absolutely f@&$! outstanding!

I just might have to try it to find out. :-) Now thinking about it I think I would first add my old harness fat concoction to it first to soften it up.

Hi, I dont have a pattern but if you have some basic woodworking tools I can tell you how I wood make one. I wood take a holler that I want to copy. Carve out a wooden form that will fit inside the form of the hat. Then cut out a ring from 3/4" plywood a little oversized that wil fit over the newly made hat block form. The inner diameter to be just big enough to accept your leather. It should be a snug fit. Soak your leather in warm water and lay over the block and press the ring over it until it bottoms out. Turn over and work out your wrinkles and let dry. Remove and cut off excess. Skiv edge. Now just make 2 outer rings. Glue back to back but not completely to inner edge. You will want to sandwich the main edge of upper hat between the 2 rim layers and stitch or lace all 3 leathers together.