Windrider30

Great work all the way around and as a major fan of swords good looking dirk though personaly never liked the hilts like that tend to get in the way in actual combat at times. Would still love to own it lol love the back seam on that and great work on the brass!!

Been wanting to do this for a little while now so making a kangaroo leather conquistador braided belt!! Going to be at this a while I think lol!!!

Your wife could ride him into battle!! You just need to make some armor for him and lovely dog and great looking collar!

not interested in the mystery braid for a belt, and hmm that is a good idea might give that a go and see how that turns out!

Ok thinking of doing a braided belt, using kangaroo lace. Two questions A: how would I get the standard looking end of the belt the triangle part, and b: where and or how do I put the holes for the belt buckle tongue to go though?

That is not collar that is a waist belt for a normal human lol nice work!!!! And yes i want to se a pic of this war mount you speak of!!

agreed very nice !!!

I look at it this way, if you are happy with your work, and you are either selling it or just giving it away and people like it even when told it's done by a laser then who gives a damn about the so called purists? I have a personal preference of doing everything by hand including the sewing. I do not hold it against anyone that uses a machine to sew with, if that is your thing more power to you I say.

Tandy Leather sells them. Actually got really lucky with finding them as I had already designed and tooled the pockets even before I started looking for the buttons. When I and my wife say those she was said "YOU HAVE TO GET THOSE!!!" so I got those lol it all came out great and there were many firsts for me, from doing the bound button holes (never done any kind of button hole) to the Gaucho style braiding on the seams, only reason I did that was I wanted to cover up the seams and make the waistcoat stand out a little more.

Will be adding better pictures tomorrow but this was a major woohoo moment. A first for a lot of things. First time doing the style of braiding, first time for making a waistcoat/vest and its finally DONE!!! took 170 to 180 feet of suede lace to do all the lacing...and there was a LOT lacing!!!!! Way to many pics so just going to throw the link for the imgur album http://imgur.com/a/MoIWL

very cute!!! and as a 41 year old I still love smacking the crap out of things with my mallet makes me giggle like a school girl some days!!

Its a ing pain in the ass to cut...hand sritching is easy if you use a pricking iron. Best way to cut sting ray is from the back of it. Oh and you cant bunish the edge just cover it in edge dye..or i should say i couldnt burnish it. Geat ready to dull a few edges when cutting!!

Decided to make another tri fold but wanted to do a little bit more braid work so went with a Mexican round braid with some lace that I had. Unforitnatly you can tell where I started the whole braiding and stopped it (its connected but a little messy) simply because I litteraly ran out of lace. But over all it turned out really nice I think. Went with a white mission grain pigskin for the inside, outside is 4 to 5 oz Montania hide from Tandy leather

Nope still working on it though a few have suggested messing around with an air brush.

Thanks

Very nice though honestly still on the fence about using elephant hide.

They are illegal in a lot of states. It it is nice looking

I have the smaller set of these and they are a god send to be honest work really well and its hard steel so you cant screw things up!!

Agrred with the mention of a wing divider and sand paper just a tip though with the sand paper well two yips first always go in the same direction never just back and forth second tip get wet dry sand paper and two size grits i use 60 to start with then jumps to 120 or so then after sanding burnish the edges a bit

I do not think the thickness matters really just what you normally use for a belt. Personally i use 5 to 6 oz for my belts. As for braiding i enjoy the mexican 4 strand round braid application look. Its a bit tricky to get started but it does look nice. I tend to us 1/8th inch thick lacing

none what so ever as you really do not have to put to much pressure to snap it closed, though I am thinking of using a Sam brown button next time around.

As the title says third time is the charm it would seem, Decided to do a little prototyping from a pattern I got from tandy, first one was way to small for even a small smart phone, but it does make a great knife holster for my exactoknife I keep putting it down then looking every where for it only to find it in an odd spot, now with it on my hip I do not lose the damned thing, nor does it fall from the holster so that is nice. Second one (the middle one) was wide enough for a Samsung galaxy s5 but for some damn reason the strap was to short (still not sure about that but ah well) did not really like the way the tooling came out, the dying came out like I thought it would and kind of like the effect. Third one which is holding my phone came out perfect, now will make a 4th one and will be making it out of stingray...first and LAST one out of stingray as it will use up the last of my stingray hide how I hate that stuff its a real bitch to work with!

Really nice

So basicly a double shoulder would do with a little left over then maybe hehe and not bad for half a cow amazing how many projects we can get out of one animal

Ok figured this pattern sizing thing out, and have some new ways of doing it as well, thanks to everyone the one thing I did to make this a hell of a lot easier (as I could do it with this pattern) was folded in half, cut it down the middle, taped one side of the pattern to a piece of paper, then put my ruler down and moved the other half the 2 inches that I wanted to expand it the width by then taped the other half down and traced around the pattern and it worked perfectly do love the compass idea and will be giving that a try on a corset pattern that I have