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Yeah if I only had the money to spend ......

Very nice, love the color and style.

Very nice, look very sturdy well made and great carving and colors.

Very nice, lots of stitching on that one. I just finished a belt and thought that was alot of stitching. Only thing I would comment on is that the little keepers where the D's attach could maybe be made a little more robust. ofcourse I like to overdo everything I make generally.

Well another belt under the belt lol. This is for the girl that has the other belt I made a while back. She wanted the little bling but wanted black and dark with flowers and such so this is what I came up with. I must say I hate black dye, Ive gotten spoiled with doing vinegaroon projects whenever I needed black. I should have just painted this one over a vinegaroon base would have been easier. Anyways the leaves are a couple of different greens, the flowers are a mix of warm colors over a yellow base (looked cool at first) and the background is black. I went over it with black antique to darken it up some. Still learning antiquing, Hand stitched. Tried to dye the stitching afterwards but wont do that again, way to hard to control the leak thru of the dye so I will stick to natural thread color or I will dye it before hand like I usually do. Did try some new carving style, did a little inverted carving as I have not tried that before. Thanks for looking and comments welcome.

Amazing stuff Andy. Love the look of it, has kind of a rough style with enough nice carving to give it kind of give it a look of classy undertones. Great combination. I dont know much about saddles but wanna add that I like how the cinch strap, not sure of its proper name, where you cinch up under the belly at the front. I like how you did that with the little wrap around portion thats carved.

Looks great, have fun out there.

Good info Busted, I am gonna have to try out the nail thing. As far as thread size I think 6cord linen is a great size for belts, holsters, and sheaths. 3cored I like using for inlay portions of sheaths and such. I guess it depends on what you make as to the size you wanna use and the style.

Yeah great stuff aint it. My vinegaroon is pretty much black liquid but works really good. The baking soda rinse will help turn it a darker black in some cases where it doesnt turn out as well. Also I have found that HO leather really does good, WandC does pretty good as well. Tandy is hit and miss with it. Same as alot of the import leather, these are either really good or do the blue thing. Forgot I wanted to add that I am pretty spoiled with this stuff. I am currently working on a belt that I wanted to add some color to so had to dye the background black and color the tooling. I like just dipping, rinsing, then oiling and being done with it. No buffing and all the other fun that goes with dying things black.

What a bummer, well I guess I can toss my can of saddle lac. Wasnt sure how it was going to work out. Thanks for the info.

Looks pretty cool, good colors. I think the lace would look really nice as a light to medium brown personally but the current color doesnot look bad.

The corbin seats are usually chrome tan leather which you wont be able to redye, atleast with any kind of good result. Not to mention the quality of leather could vary and there is no telling what kind of top coat that leather has. My corbin seat only had leather on the top portion anyways, the rest was artificial stuff. The best bet would be to recover it or have someone recover it with what you want.

Nicely done.

Thanks Luke, Ill have to add that to the list of books to get next. I gotta make place a order soon for some reading material.

Hey guys I was thinking of trying some reverse beveling but actually have not really read anywhere about how to on it. I only saw a mentioning of it in one of the Barnett guides I have. I read that he mentioned you only bevel the outline portions in toward the project and everything else within this "border" is beveled as you normally would. Is this basically it. Thanks for your help.

Great looking sheaths, little something different. That stingray one is very nice, that is a good idea. I really like that first one for the rambo knife. Challenging but it came out very nice. Your work is so meticulous with stitching and construction.

Those look very good. Great job.

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If you go to the leatherworker.net home page he is under the directory there. Gotta call him as I dont think he has a website.

Thats an odd request but it looks great so far.

OK Ed I am probably going to get in a little over my head here as I am not that experienced. Say for example osbourne awl blades which besides tandy are the only ones I have bought. They come in several lengths from like 1.5" to around 3". The width of the awl (the hole size) is basically the same for all of them, maybe slightly larger for the longer ones. I think the size deals primarily with the length. Pretty much all of these cheaper blades I have gotten I had to file down to get to make smaller holes for smaller thread. the new tandy awls may be different as I have not gotten any of those yet and probably wont. I think my next set will be the guys I listed earilier. There was a sizing guide I saw here on the forum I think that showed how to determine the size you needed based on your finger length and to take into consideration the length of the leather as well. Basically when you hold the awl handle and extend your forfinger the blade should come out to the end of your forefinger. This would theoretically show how much awl blade length would be used during a standard puncture. This seems to be about correct for varying leather thickness but may need to be adjusted for really thick stuff say like a sheath that has 4 or 5 layers of 8oz along the welt region. Hope that helps.

From what I remember Taurus usually uses the same frame for several different models of revolvers. The specs list them at the same length but I didnt see any other specs that were listed to compare the two. Looks like some of the 85 series are hammerless which could play a part in holster design but other then that I imagine they are the same. That being said I dont have the two guns in front of me. Maybe try stopping by a gun store and checking out the two models to see how different they are.

Ahh ok cool, looks very nice. Good setup you guys came up with.

HAHA excellent work. That last one would make a killer looking biker helmet.

When you figure this out be sure to post it, I would be interested in seeing how it all comes together.