Tina

Love your stuff as always lil'bro :-) I have to say the belt pops out, great look

Beautiful work as always, I like the coloring of the flowers and the texted piece on thew crock, very nice details:You_Rock_Emoticon:

Hi Ray, this might sound a bit too easy but...I have in my view the best sharpener for sissors money can buy, from Fiskars. When sewing I need the sharpest sissor to cut my fabrics and ever since I bought my sharpener over 10+years ago I have yet to buy a new pair of sissors...Well spent money and it goes to all my sissors at home :-) http://www.powertoolsdirect.com/fiskars-scissor-sharpener-30537

Manny Millions of Thanks for your very kind words about my work John :-) Maybe I should try to make a thing or two from the book and hopefully make Jehan's designs justice...

I have been asked that question before and I have yet to decide what to do so, for the moment I'll let it be.

Hi Rob, I have yet to make anything using the patterns from the book, most of my stuff is my own patterns that I draw...Just wish the days had more hours :-) If/when I make anything from the book I will for sure post it here on LW//Tina

I'm soooo sorry to hear about the struggles and I too wish you and your family All the best in the future. I'm also a true fan of your work (number one fan if you ask me *S*), I would not know how to do tooling without my BearMan mauls, they're truly Awesome

The link below have some really good drawings on the Mexican round braid and the corners. It is just so manny pages to search and for now I did not have the time to find the right one...It will pay of (I hope *S*) to look for it: http://www.kingsmerecrafts.com/

Beautiful work and I can see Boma has a great carving future :-)

If I calcuate your age this year ( you born in -43) it comes to 68...In that case the numbers ad up to 11 :-)

Yeah, Welcome Roy and glad you found this little place on the net. Som du ser finns det fler svenskar här, vi är en liten men växande skara :-) We all like pictures so if you have some (or a link) please post them here.

Hi When I lived in the US I bought white cowhides aka "Chap Leather" around 3-31/2 oz, very nice quallity from Hide House :-) http://hidehouse.com/

I use Angelus Matte finish when I don't need no shine. I apply it with an airgun and it comes out great. The most inexspensive place I have found it in is: http://turtlefeathers.net/text/angelus/miscellaneous-products.html (scroll down a wee bit more than half the page to..."Acryllich Finishers"

I have the 1/4" (never tried any other size) from Paul's SK-3 (LeatherWrangler) and it is almost the only one I use, so primary it is :-). I love the little blade which makes me able to do pretty much anything I like.

I use Fiebings Hi-Liter. It is a less "thick" than the antiqueing from Tandy. It is a wee bi more tricky to work with, a very "light hand" when whiping of excess (or it dryes in patches...This is the best way I can explain it) and an airgun for the sealer is the best way to go. Even if it is tricky I use it a lot and would be lost without it :-)

I use (among others) Angelus acryllic paints. They seams to hold up good and I have not found any cracks up to date and I have been using them for + 3 years. My latest test will be this browband I made for my grand daughters horse last night...Angelus dye and paints. Lets see how good it will hold up this time :-)

With the SK-3 you have a 2 different yokes to take your pick from.

I agree with Madmax...Beautiful work

My best tip is to use a Desktop Puplishing Program (DTP). I have used Serif's Page Plus for more than 10 years now, very affordable if you buy a newer version or even more affordable to just uppgrade. This program lets you play around as if you had an ordinary desktop with loose pictures (text) or what ever and you can lay them around anywhere/anyhow you like...Resize, rotate and more. If you learn this program you have an excellent tool in your quest of making your own patterns if hand drawing is not your prefference. The "not ancient" versions even let you make PDF's and Web designs. Another tip about this program in specific is that there is free, older versions out there readdy to be used, just make a search for them, a good start :-)

This topic has been up before...Try this link out :-) http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=29800&st=0&p=186640&hl=+pink%20+dye&fromsearch=1entry186640

Hi Ben :-) I did not cut back any fur on either one of the quivers. The Hair-on-cow was the easy one, the fur is "stiff" and it was just so sew right on to the tooled pieces. The rabbit, a wee bit more tricky...The fur finds it self in to every little stich and hole. I taped back the fur as hard as possible with some of that blue masking tape, (but I'm sure any masking tape will do) then it was "just" to sew the fur onto the tooled pieces. I remeber I did glue the delicate rabbit fur onto some piece of leather (just laying around) with more substance to it. I hope this will help you or that other might jump in here and give some tips on the topic. Wishing you Good Luck//Tina