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I think I need more doors!

It dies to me as well, I understand the fustration with the wholesalers, seems like if your not ordering 20 sides a month you get the stuff nobody else wants, I was at the Hermann oak tannery a couple months ago and had a chance to look at the piles of leather in the finishing room, decided I really liked the old world harness sides, so when I got home I ordered some from a dealer in Ohio and specified I needed nice hides, what was received was nothing of the sort, mushy and full of holes and butcher cuts, worst part is a call gets the" send it back and we'll send out another one", been there done that, got the same stuff. It's just sad that nobody can step up and make sure that the orders are fulfilled with a quality hide.

Nope, not anymore, it's all about YouTube and building a brand, then the quality of the product doesn't matter.

I have used waterborne poly on edges occasionally, but most wood finish products are not real flexible and tend to crack on leather as it flexes.

Get some scrap matieral the same weight as what you'd like to use and start practicing running stitches, following lines and edges. It will be tough at first but will get better and easier with practice.

Absolutely, gophers, raccoons and possum's don't care about fancy, and it was a good use for some leftovers.

A couple more pictures.

Made a simple everyday around the farm holster for a heritage rough rider. Made from 13oz HO bridle leather.

Funny about that, went to the federation show in St Louis and came home with way more than I planned to.

How big of holes, alot of the time holes in webbing are melted rather than punched,

Very nice!

Definitely save up for the king tools, my experience is that the craftools, hidecrafter and other tools at that price point are about the same quality wise. The geometrics and border tools are phenomenal compared the the less expensive tools. Depending on the type of carving you do you don't need a whole set right away, seems like a larger and smaller one will do a lot of work. Barry's bevelers are pretty reasonable.

Very nice, quite unique

That's a fine piece of work!

Looks great other than some of the things others pointed out,. On the small saddles I've done getting the rear jockeys down tight took some time, To me personally I like a hidden stich on the back of the cantle binding, and beveling the saddle strings, it also looks like the bleed knots are sticking up, I use a hammer to tap them down and flatten them a bit. The tooling turned out very nice, looking forward to seeing another one.

I've used the wood is good mauls, they are ok for punches, but the poly head is slightly rubbery so the do bounce some when hitting metal tools, rather than wood handled chisels, after I bought a Barry King maul it was like a night and day difference in the amount of force needed to get a nice impression or cut with a punch, the material the maul head is made of is considerably harder, to me that equals less fatigue when tooling.

How much for the fortura band knife splitter? Thank you

Anytime For the edge guys, sorry not the greatest picture.

I use a 32oz mail from Barry King for tooling and punches, a old Sears cobblers hammer that I polished the face for tapping stiches and putting glued pieces together, and a ball print for everything else.

For the edge guys, sorry not the greatest picture.

A trio of filet knife sheath's ready to ship out.

The jeramiah watt ones are very nice as well.

Sounds like you should just throw it in the car and go for a 5 Mile drive and ask, can you make this?

He had it figured right, it seems like there is more money to be made in patterns, tools and raw materials and YouTube videos than in finished leather goods, here in the Amish paradise of se mn I always hear " the Amish can do it for less", but when they go to the Amish it seems they always end up with oranges rather than apples. It sounds like he was a interesting fellow, it was to bad I didn't have a chance to meet him.

Was Mr Pommer primarily a machine repairman and collector, or did he also do leatherwork of some sort?