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Great looking work, I need to make one for what I take the compound bow out shooting. I caught my arm once and looked like I had a baseball underneath my skin lol.

Hey David outstanding looking seat. I really like the accent lacing. Question, do you ever have any problems with the leather balm pulling some of the dye up on the first coat. I allways have a issue with that and sometimes itll blend the dies if I have mutliple colors.

Wondering what all you guys that sell your stuff for a pretty penny use as far as hardware (clasp, buckles, hinges, .... ). I understand that when you start making a quality product that is sold you dont want the finish rubbing off of a concho or clasp in a week or two of use. Just some input on who you guys turn too for quality stuff.

Amen to that, my first wallet I made when I first started out about a year ago is still rocking strong. I want to make a new one but wanted to wait till my other kicked the bucket but besides loooking a little aged it is still in great shape. Im sure he will be very happy with it for a long time to come.

That looks really good and great looking finish you got. I must say its nice seeing your stuff as its a improvement each time you post something. Good job.

Very nice looking and thanks for sharing a pics of it actually being worn. You guys need to stop posting pics of these nice revolvers, Im gonnd end up buying one

LOL Tina is there anything in the leather arts that you DONT do in a outstanding manner?

That looks like a good start. You gonna be adding any leather to it. Be sure to show some photos when your all done.

CitizenKate that makes alot more sence to me. Thanks Also Bree no worries its good to share info and such, dont worry if it is too bad in some way will be locked or removed, the staff here is really good about keeping this place running smoothly.

Very nice looking stuff, thanks for continueing to show off your work. I took a stroll thru your website and must say very nice job. Its not annoying, easy to navigate, shows off your work well. On your wrist bands does the 6.5" to 0 inch pretty much cover most of the orders with rare exceptions?

Very cool and nice looking, good job. Looks very similer to the fly rod cases in al stohlmans book on building cases, volume 1 i think. Should work out perfectly for that if you decide to do it.

Very nice work, I like the viney style you have going on. Question for ya. The Keith side of it looks like the leaves and stuff are all indented instead of raised which Im use to seeing, is that the case or am I just not seeing it correctly? Thanks

My fav is when it finally comes to gether at the end or pretty close to it. I generally feel it looks bad in the middle and find it hard to get motivated to finish, plus in the middle it never looks as good as when your all done and put together. Even if the end isnt exactly what I was looking to acheive it is still something that I made with my own hands and usually feel pretty proud of that. I think my worst part is the first cut of the leather. I allways look at a piece of leather and really admire how good it looks and think to myself about a hundred times hows the best way to utilize the leather, is there a better way to cut it, did I get my measurements right, did I get my measurements right, did I get ....... lol ofcourse Im just a beginner so Im sure alot of you all get over this after youve been at it a while.

Some good work you got there. I really like the officer setup and that knife sheath.

Got it figured out, the website that I had originally gone to wasnt the state website but something else. The girlfriend went on the state site and found the application form and all that good stuff. Looks like all I have to do is fill out the form for the business license, pay the fee and let it get processed and Im good to go. Atleast at first. Once again thanks for all the help.

Thanks for the input. That would be the coolest/best part about it is being able to order from those guys. Ohio travel bag was nice enough to direct me to there retail site and siad if I find anything on there other site to just get them the numbers and they will make them available to me. Pretty nice if you ask me. Still with all the wholesale only places I think the tax# would be very beneficial. RDB I think that is probably better then I handle things sometimes. Hence why this is just my hobby right now. If I had to live off of it Id probably be starving right now lol.

For doing the outline trace say like the pattern to cut the leather I transfer the pattern on too some heavy stock paper (got some cheap on sale) that way they last for a while. For the designs for say the flowers and stuff to be carved I use tracing paper. Got a huge roll of it off amazon for liek $10 I think it was. As far as weight of leather Im not sure for holsters and stuff as I am still a beginner as well. I know that if your doing folds say for a box or something then you have to increase by like twice the thickness of the leather or something like that, so 4/5 oz would be 1/8" or something, 10oz would be a little more, not sure how that translates into holsters and such.

Looks really good. How did you get that mottled effect? I like it

OK thats the first site I got as well. I dont want to sound lazy or anything, its just Ive grown increasingly leary of websites after a few times of having some issues with deals in the recent past. If this is where you started and you didnt get rolled then it sounds like a good idea. Just wanna make sure Im on the right track. Thanks for the input.

Hey guys, figured I would look into getting a business license, I spend alot of money on this leather stuff (mainly initial cost) and would like to get some kind of tax help if I can and in the future near or maybe longer I would like to start selling some stuff. Not alot but when I can turn out something worth while it would be nice to make enough money on the side to support my habit (lmao). Thats the why now How do I go about doing this. Anyone got some good trustworthy links that they can shoot my direction. Any experiences or lessons learned. Much appreciated.

Thank you, any helpful hints, seems pretty straight forward.

Not that I disagree with you and I can see why you guys are hesitant but ..... I dont see why when it was free before that now some nonprofit groups should be able to claim rights to it so they can make a buck even if it is for a good cause. I think most of the people that start out in leather arent rich (money wise) and need all the help they can get in learning the trade and having some downloads that they arent having to pay for it kind of nice. If a group is running off donations then they shouldnt be copyrighting something so they can get money for it hence running off donations and not selling stuff. Thats just my opinion, I see it as she wanted it to be free so it should be.

Good job too both of you guys. Tina very nice design you really have a nac for laying out the design to look great. ClayB very good job on the tooling and I really like the color. Did you copy the design of the purse before you put it together, that way you could make any changes in construction and do it the way you really wanted to next time. Atleast thats what I would think about doing.

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

I think it depends on how long you leave it in solution. I only dunk for about a minute if that and they turn very black once oiled and are alot stiffer but not to terribly hard. Try experimenting, a gallon of vineger and some of the steel wool and about a week and your set. oh forgot to add that I think from listening too others and from what it looks like, is that the vine pulls out the oils to the surface of the leather. This should harden it and makes sense.