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Thank you so much! At this point I am almost finished with the understraps, and soon starting on the big shoulder straps. I am using veg tan belt blanks I ordered, so it could be strong enough, and same bits from the belt blanks used for small straps, fitting in size as I go. I am thinking about stamping some design of some kind on the shoulderstraps, so I dye the veg tanned with black ROC dye. Will upload pictures on the way to the goal

Thank you so much for tip! Yes, I bevel and seal, burnish, using ROC edgekoting. I have added "padding" on the small strap too, used some thick suede leather (?) inside the deerskin. Been searching around here on leatherworker, and one tip about using doublesided tape for holding together was awsome! Next will be the big shoulder straps, with big thick padding around, kind of like the english type saddle girths. This is the "big scare"! Eva

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allright, I'm learning as I go, well, I've finished my first strap, one of the small ones at bottom, and learnd the hard way, that the old buckels have trouble handle the new thicker leather LOL, think I'll have to open up and skive down around the buckle... sigh.. but having fun and totally obsessed :D

Hello! My dad want me to make him new accordion straps, sinse his 50year old straps are totally broken. Okey I said, and ordered two belt blanks 4cm x 130 cm , and some thin reindeer lining, and cotton wool, because thats what was originally inside the old straps (dont know about the padded leather, only it's thin and stiff). The reindeer lining is thin and super stretchy, skeptic it will work... Anyway, help, please! I want to reinforse the strap ends whit shields, so I make templates/pattern, and new 4cm straps is double wide than old, so I will have to narrow down at ends, -dad want me to use the original buckels. OK, always measure and make templates, so I am doing that, but oh my this is stressing me What would you do? Any tips and pointers? Please look at pictures attatched. On small straps, it's filled with some fabric (?) And all ends have some reinforsing inside looking like cardboard! My big consern is the padding, how to get that correct.. -Eva (probably will come back with thousands more questions, LOL)

Hello and thanks for the tips on leather tools and hides. Prises on hides has the most difference all over, but for tools, I kind of see that prises here are some similiar. Ofcourse when one add a big order, I will save money on each item, but for now I just have to do small orders... I can import where ever sends to Norway (but we have to add taxes when order comes over ca 33 dollars). Dyes are expensive here too, but I'm very pleased with the dye I'm used to, R.O.C lærfarge (R.O.C leatherdye), spiritbased. I found some small norwegian bisnisses who sell leather tools to very affordable prises (no-tandy our biggest leatherplace sells almost only tandy tools, but on hides they get TOP quality, from tannerys in Norway and Sweden). Thank you for the tips, would love to make myself bying trips, oh my! Have a happy day! Eva

I kind of recognised the pattern, as mentioned in similarity to European Rose maling! This beautiful tooling may not have anything to do with it, but it's striking how similar they look (just a random link of patterns attatched: http://www.bunad-magasinet.no/index.php?id=4492188#.U6H_l_l_uhg Hope you find if the pattern has a style-name Eva

Hello OdinUK, have fun making items for horses, so much variation to do! Have a great trip to Finland, beautiful there! Hello Malchik, gøy at man treffer flere fra berget her Eva from Norway

Hello, and thanks you all for the happy welcoming Hello to another nowhere-ian LOL much fun having another from Norway welcoming! I woud love to show some of my painting on canvas, but I can't figure out how to attatch pictures in reply-post...... I first found my love for leatherworking back in -00, when I took saddlemaking class 1 at Starum, (english type) but I as an young adult couldn't afford the tools needed, I took a long pause. And now I finally found back my interest and passion for it, almost forgotten it! And found this site, and found that leatherworking isn't only making standard saddles and tack, but so much more! So much in the artist way too! And I love it! I'm absolutely mesmerized! I humble admire all of your work, som much amazing. Have a happy day, we keep having warm weather here up north! Eva from Norway.

Isen't it standard that if one order something that is wrong when one open it at home, that the seller/company fix all the wrongs?

Hello hello, just want to say hello from Norway! Finally we are having some summer here up north of northern Norway! Lol. I have been lurking around for some time now, and looking in yours gallery, of all those beautiful, magnificent, stunning things you guys can make! It's absolutely mindblowing the things you make! Beautiful beautiful, and I'm just a little bit envy of you well, now I've used all my leather in my tandy kit, and can't wait until I get some real leather to begin working on, but for 20 square feet 2,2mm tooling hide, 430 dollar.. I just like many of you, just have to save up some and wait, oh my oh my, all the waiting is pain, LOL, but waiting for something good is wort a good wait -and then finally maybe I also can post in gallery like you! Training to acheeve skills like you! :D Well, I'm a woman/girl living with my family up in the city called "The city of the polar cirkle" (polarcirkelbyen), we have here the glacier "Svartisen" translated to Black Ice/BlackGlacier. Myself I love horses, dogs, have now two Jack Russells, and when I'm not lurking around looking at all the beautifull things one can make out of leather, I do paint on canvas with acrylic, have done so for many many years. A bit of an artist, I like to call myself Lol! Have a happy day all of you, and keep tooling, and creating incredible things out of leahter! ps, pardon my english, I did say I'm from Norway? (picture of me and my old horse, back in my teens, in the middle of the summer, in the middle of the night! Sun's bearly down!

Hello! My dog is a Jack Russell Terrier boy, maybe a collar could be fun trying to do well, I have been thinking about how to stitch bison leather, I do not have a sewingmachine. It is so thin, I don't think making a stitch groove would work for this thin, soft leather I have. How would you do the stitching? Then I thought I could lace it, by punching holes, for example for a purse/bag, of some kind. The bits of bison leather I have, are full usable cuts.

Hello, I've got some 3 small pieces of bison leather, all different colour, ca 25cm x 30cm. I've never used this soft leather before, has anyone of you? And maybe share some ideas of what I can use it for? Eva from Norway

Hello, I've quit in the past using nicotine gum, and other nicotine replacement (no el-cig) but started again. This time now soon 1,5 years free from smoking, I quit with the help of snus. Yes, snus is nicotine, but no more inhaling and damaging the lungs! Snus is common in Norway, Sweden, Finland. Breathing freely is why I wantet quit smoking. Have a nice day! Eva from Norway.

Thank you so much for filling in, I am a newby, plus I don't always understand all the english terms, but now I know what plug is I did'n realy understand what plug was (sorry, I am from Norway, long time since I have used english in writing). But now you helped me break it down for me to understand Thank you all!

A monster trap, great idea! :D LOL Yes, soft leather, forming and using maybe glass eyes, but what to put under for the mouth and eyebrow? What kind of glue? Thank you all for the information!

I've been googling around, and I found some really fun deck card cases! I am now wondering -how do they do that! It looks like a lot of fun making, anyone have any ideas?

Hello, and thanks for all the help. Yes, they are Jack Russells, my own kennel -I did look in my old stuff from when I took "the Norwegian horse school": of "saddle-and harness-making-coars" (hard to translate correctly) and there I found backpack pattern/template for dogs! YES :D