TomSwede

Oh I've completely missed this one since I was away when posted. I actually been wondering when you were gonna show us something new a few times. It is a very nice holster, imagination and creativity points outrank any detail criticism I would have besides this is show off so standing I love it. Nice edges too. Tom

Very nice work, seems like you've got the general idea out of it. Combine theese two and you get the western cemetary style invented by Froghunter and maybe you find your speciality;-) My first ones were way uglier than this. Welcome to the board! Tom

Ha ha that is so clever and nice. Smooth basketweave, like it! Good work! Tom

Hey Tina! Now your fabolous for real...Welcome to the skullcrew, initiation passed !! Tom

Beautiful drinking horn I have used that celtic tooling design quite a few times and like it alot. Tom

This one is looking to be great Anne! Stuff like this should be done slowly and whenever one feels like really up to it so don't stress it! Tom

Welcome aboard ibonn! Glad to have you found us! We sure have some great western saddle makers here and lot's of good carvers and moe so whatever you're looking to get into I'm sure you can find help here. We love to see pics! Tom

Great looking stuff Alex! I could use one or two of those bookmarks! Tom

It looks great with that frame! Hang it in your livingroom!! Tom

It can happen to the best of eyes It is a very nice font! Tom

Ha ha maybe I'm flirty today, lol. Naeh, it's prolly that I get so happy with the style you have here. It makes me think of the album art of the metal band Slayer wich are all drawn by frontman Tom Arraya. Took me back to the early nineties and their release of the album "Seasons in the abyss" wich is a punch on the mouth with airwaves!! Tom

Hello and welcome to the most friendly board you can imagine! If you have any questions just ask away and you will get answers. Sometimes fast and sometimes it can take a few days. We love pics here so your friends father is most welcome to show us some work. Greetings to both of you! Tom

Now your talking my language!!! I really really like what you did with the colours. Very nice and welcome to the skullcrew! Tom

Not only have you got a airbrush, you master it too. Very nice looks! Tom

Very good looking spur straps Don!! The colour is beautiful and a really nice shape to them. Will we we see them mounte aswell?? Tom

That's a good story. Here's another one! Last prairiewolf I drank(and I had a few in my days) gave me trouble and did not wanna stay down but after my stomach had attempted a couple of times to throw it up it seemed allright...thought I and in a split second it gushed out of me and over the bar. I managed to close my mouth and keep it like that just until I reached the toilet but still a load was on the bar disk. Uack. I wasn't so very drunk so when I got out from the toilet I ran into one of the guards with the "cleaning kit" and said -oh man, has someone puked? -yeah, he shortly replied. I said -Oh man, I am terribly sorry but I will clean it up for you if you promise to not get mad. -Ok He said with a confused look and I dropped the bomb on him and said again -I am terribly sorry, I am not overly drunk but I did puke at the bar after some nasty dude bought me a prairiewolf!! The guard was very surprised but then he broke up in a big smile and replied, - Wow man, it's the first time EVER someone freely admit a barfing and appoligize and help clean up. Well, you seem to be ok and have an honest attitude so you can stay but stay off those bad drinks, ok! After we got the bar was clean I was excused and they even let me buy more beer. Stopping that guard was probably my only chance of not being thrown out, they'd found me soon enough and kicked me out. A totally hairless dude is easy to spot at a death metal concert!! Tom

Thanks Spider!! I'm in Sweden and no one gives a damn bout cussing anymore here so give me your best. I'm very glad my little efforts on this could be of use to anyone else. Tom

I'll step in and reply for Roo, she busy in the backroom toilets powdering her nose wich usually generate a long que outside it. I can hear several of the team members jumping around out there on one leg;-) Tack själv Bruce! Tom

Nice and clean looking holsters Art! Nice way to hide the snap closure, your own invention? Do you just press over the gun and snap to make it lock again? The F logo look very neat. Tom

Thanks for the info, only stuff unavailable in Sweden for proofing, as usual. Very nice work with the brushes. Tom

Good looking pics! Sure look like a passionate leatherworker in the last one, I wonder if you even noticed the photographer;-) Reyes is not afraid to loose some detail in the shadows wich really is my kind of pref when not doing documetary style, like pics to show stuff here. His style really sets of the horrific mask! Tom

Thank you Crystal! I did actually for my first rod tube mark out the top first and then put down the holes on a scribed line to the cylindrical piece but that was alot harder. This method is very easy to me because you can easily lean the the tube so that the eye sees both the actual hole and the spot to mark up for the new one just make sure to not loose pressure so that lid slides out of position. You are gonna have to reposition fingers as you unless yo put it on desktop that so can walk around. I'd use tie offs if it was bigger but maybe for the first one they would be good to use for the first one perhaps especially if not used to do lacing. I've only used basketweave to do this type because I think the edges needs to be covered as much as possible. For typical double or triple loop braid one would really need to skive the edges 45 degrees to make it look good and that's a practice on my "to learn" list but I'm not sure those would look any good over an edge like this. They kinda ride on top of the edge and the edge here is at an angle so probably hard to get it even. Thanks Jbird! The Stohlman award is the only thing better than his workbench, lol Tom

Ardbeg Renaissance 56% and lots of peat....oh man I've died and come to a better place!

Sure but it's far away so it's nothing I think alot about, I follow you guys like a shadow and hope I get past someday. Thanks a bunch Art! Thanks Rdb! I got your belt tut somewhere too, it had some fine pointers that is pliable for more than just beltmaking, like staining and how you do edges. Tom

Looks fantastic Roger! Looking forward to see the clash of colours, impossible to foresee the result with those colours. Tom