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Beautiful! Very clean and uncompromised looks! Tom

Looking good! You're on your way to get hooked;-) Tom

Oh yeah This came out good, love the way the tooling shines through to the inside. The lacing looks really cool too. Makes me think about mysterious books of black magic or sumting. Way cool and definetly a keeper. Tom

Hey Darryl, you gotta warn me before posting such elaborate work. Where did that come from, just the other day you mentioned being stuck!! Very nice and clean and nice going with the pear shader (I think you used the pear) and that tool scares me a bit but I explore another tecnique now and get it later on. I just love the green man, a celtic figure I believe. Get yourself a celtic sword, they're dynamite in good looks, and use this one for a scabbard or sumting. Dar,n I gotta get rich and get a celtic sword. Really thrilled to see where this leads to. Tom Edit: just saw ArtS comment and agree. Then I'd probably try with sealing it and then go with some saddletan antiquing to enhance the shading but NOT before deciding how it's gonna be used and only apply antiquing with a brush to defined areas, my experience is that it always get a bit overall darker with saddletan over a whole piece even though sealed. The eyes/mouth look filigreed/backgrounded and that makes it easy to paint on some black dye.

Yeah, here they are! Such nice little fella's. Those should sell out really fast I think. Is that coinpurses I see? Looks like a zipper on top. If so, excellent idea! Good to see you get some work done and keeping up the good work. I'm kinda busy with lot's of other stuff, sigh. Looking forward to see the rest when you're ready!! Tom

Love the design and the colouring, the circuitry/knotwork combo is way You're gonna get some jealous looks at work and possibly some orders too. Tom

Very nice!! Gotta love that skeleton. Smooth and clean carving that stands out great and the border is a nice touch that keeps the composition together. Tom

Gonna make sure I see this one finished Karl. I can see why you're allready happy with it. Keep it up and happy 4:th to you. Tom

Wow Beeza! This one's great, they always are but this one's something special. Love the way you worked out those flames! Tom

Very nice and clean sheath, just the type that proves that proves that sometimes "less is more". The white stitching is very nice going with the white snake inlays. Like the symmetrical shape of it too. Tom

Good looking straps, I'm sure they'll be pleased! Tom

Hi Papawolf! You should check out Storms pyrocarvings, He's great at it. Here's a link to one of his posts: http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=3646 and here's a link to a tutorial he sen't me about making a tempcontrol, the burners seem to be at bit to high when working leather thus creating an unpleasant odour. Not sure he built this one yet but I'm sure he reply if you ask him. He's a great guy. http://www.thegourdreserve.com/tutorials/t...rol/burn1.shtml I think Hiloboy is doing alot of pyrocarving too and then there is Scouter that has shown off some good pyrocarvings in the past. Tom

Very nice Colman! I like the coloured bird and flower, it adds some nice viewpoints. Tom

Good looking board! Nice idea for weddingpresent, whenever they have an argue they can settle it over a game;-) I'd like to do something in leather for my friends wedding but no time to do it, well they got me as wedding photographer for free anyways but not as fun for me. Nice job! Tom

Excellent skull, can't get enough of them! Rhino looks fantastic!! Wonder what destination that piece has? Tom

I have plans to make just that but I have a serious schedule coming up and It's my wish to make one (two) more sometime in the near future. Got the hardware for two more yesterday so hopefully. I'll take pics allright but the how to may be put on hold until after my semester (middle of August). Tom

Great wristband! I think it's the first time I see your work. Very creative design and what a job with all these holes to slick. Tom

Way to go Darryl but I never doubted that. I'm impressed with the clean lines in your carving! Good going with the corner, it's only hard when you think about it, sort of...you know what I mean. About that overstitcher, you can use it whenever it fit's the width of your lace. I use it for alot of my lacing. The Laila purse was about 1/10" lace and I used the wheel that is about 1/5" to space it. That's not a tight as it can be but since the background is dark/black I used that width to save time and lace, mostly time. I think there's quite a difference in making a really tight basketweave and a little looser one and also I wanna keep something for one off special work to dazzle a bit extra with. Looking at that braided bracer I put up recently I used same overstitcher size but about 1/8" lace and same size for the holes and the braid got a much more snug look than Lailas purse but don't compare them side to side, Lailas purse is the simplified basketweave. Experiment a bit back and forth with hole sizes and spacing and you'll get it. Tom

Hi Darryl! Just wanted to let you know that I've used my cheap leather belt for well over fifteen years with snaps and I've never experienced any probs with that. Two snaps seem to work ok and I've been in periods where I shifted buckles quite alot so it's been great for me. Heck, even the leather is looking new. I agree those chicago screws feels a lot more rigid. I'd propose both to my customer and let him decide. Tom

Very good looking and how fun a joint project must be. Great lacing as usual, I sure know who got me hooked on to applique lacing. Tom

Hej Joshua! My name is Tommy and I'm really Swedish . Put Swede behind my shortened surname since there were so many of you US guys here and both Tommy and the shortened version is quite common I guess. Other names to call me by: Midhrafn (my vikingname;mid-raven) Lòdbrok (historical vikingname meaning leatherpants, ancient Scandinavian king, sons formed the clan McLeod in Scotland) and some funny nicknames from my colleagues that has to do with my bald head, like roll on from the resemblence of a roll on deodorant and such nice things...I've no probs with that since I'm most often the first one to come up with great treats for others;-) Tom

GOOD point BigAlC! and another item on the evergrowing wishlist, sigh. Tom

I met a leatherworker in Scotland who orders from england some sort of imprinting stamp that mount in a press to be pressed on/in. She just drew up whatever she wanted to have and they make it. She had some that was layed out to border specific designs. She said they were quite thin and fragile (had to be mounted on a thicker metalplate before pressing to prevent cracking) and didn't cost alot. That's all I know about it. Tom

Nice Storm! You surprize my yet again! Very good looking rune board, mixed with I-ching? Dunno anything bout that but if it works for you I'm all happy with that. The wolf look very good, hope I get to see someone one day;-) (they're shy). Cool bag too! Troy: 1).Vikings used runes to carve short texts into, stone, bone, wood etc there's a great deal of variation in them and confusing to learn because of that. 2). Theres is also twelve runes that are magical and those are the ones (I suppose) Storm has in his bag. They can be thrown on anything but it's niceer with a good looking board and then , If one have the ability to read them, they can be interpreted in ways like tarot-cards and such devices. They can also be used for other purposes, short example: The rune of Algiz (the elkrune) look like a piecesign upsidedown and it holds the power of protection, could have been used on stones where the sheepheard is as an aid to keep predators off. Tom