fishguy

Actually I meant the dragon you already have

Really nice, I have been stood up too on holster orders, now I require at least 50% down. Mabye Charlie Rich would be interested.

I can draw a bit, how about posting the seat you want to match?

a rubber cement pick-up from a stationary store works well too

The things under the raised bands are the cords or thongs to which the gaterings of pages are connected. it is kind of an old fashioned style of book binding known as "raised cord binding". In fact there is and example from the sixteenth century illustrated here: http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/bpg/annual/v07/bp07-04.html Don't be put off by all the academic jargon, there are some pretty good pictures near the bottom where you can see what is under the leather. Bookbinding is a huge art unto itself and there is a lot of stuff on the web about how to bind books, etc.

Pretty cool. I have read that a lot of that type of armor was probably leather because the laminated linnen would take so much time both in relation to weaving the cloth and gluing up the laminations. Leather would have been much cheaper, faster and easier to work with, and provides pretty much equal protection. There is a book by John Watterer called "leather and the warrior" that speculates that much of the medieval armor usually assumed to be metal plate from pictures and sculptures, is actually hardened leather.

What attachments do you use for burnishing?

If you check through this site: http://www.britishblades.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=5 there is a bunch of stuff on making Jacks and leather bottles as for the relationship between blackjacks and drinkwear I read that some of the cheaper Jacks were sealed with tar rather than wax or pitch and were favorite weapons in bar brawls. I doubt that the weapon blackjacks evolved from them, perhaps it was just an association or nickname thing.