MADMAX22

They look great. If you are too afraid to do the boning sometimes just some hard work with your fingers gets very nice mellow results. It does take a while to get good at it though atleast for me. On the 26 does it hold the gun well enough being that low on it. I have not made one that low and was wondering how well it holds when your wearing it. One other thing, how do you like machphersons, I was thinking of one of these days taking the ferry over there to check it out but have not been able to find the time.

That turned out excellent. Great job Tim.

I would highly recommend getting the full courses from his site as you linked. I bought the figure carving one and his two victorian style carving ones and love them. They are pretty in depth and advanced but start from scratch and give very good instruction in a step by step method that makes it very easy to follow. You wont be disappointed if you get them, IMHO they are money well spent. Honestly I personally could not find anything wrong with them. I printed them out and have them available to study before I start future projects.

Yeah I have a similer problem (no baby though). Since my schedule is allways up in the air I tool when I get time which doesnt allow me to really case as well as I should. I know alot of the guys like to let it sit for 24 hrs under a piece of glass but that is totally out of the question for me personally (maybe when I get out of the military) so I try to figure out what I am going to tool ahead of time if I can. Ill wet the leather pretty good a couple of hours before I tool the project. I try and give it atleast an hour to three. Check up on it and when it starts looking natural again but is still cool to the touch this is a good spot to start or if you need to hold for a while slightly wet it some more and come back later when the little one is asleep. One of my worst problems though is once I get the leather cut and I have the pattern to tool I get all ancy and want to start tooling right away. Get that little motivated streak and its hard to slow it down lol.

Those turned out pretty nice. That welting looks really good. I had to do the same thing on my motorcycle seat sponging on the vine. It turned out pretty good, I got a more solid black at first but as it wears out there are some browns showing thru in spots, gives it a really cool look. I think one of these days I will have to play with it some more.

Angelus dye in my experience so far seems to come off less however the black still takes a while to buff till it doesnt come off anymore. The black isnt as nice as the USMC black but if you do as mentioned and dye a brown first then black it comes out alot nicer. I usualy try to use vinegaroon for things like belts and holsters that I want to be black. It wont bleed but is a little more difficult to work with if you are carving and such but can still be done. Thats just my limited experience. I know a couple have used bickmores mixed with black dye and then did a dye, bickmores mix, then a strong buffing and it is suppose to work pretty good but I never played with this very much.

I remember a while back there was someone who built one so that the clamps could be rotated around. It would take some searching to dig it up but should be in the forums here somewhere.

Yeah bummer, just got that email. Atleast he was able to spend some time with him recently if I remember correctly before he passed away.

Try and get a single or double shoulder from them. I am pretty sure they sell them. That is what I would start off with if all your doing is holsters since you can use most if not all of the shoulders for holsters.

Looks great. Another thing to remember is that they will have to brake in a bit. Be sure to post your next pair that you make.

I would ask Lobo, he hangs out in the holster section primarily and I think he dip dyes all his holsters. Would be the first person I ask.

Thanks for all the compliments guys.

Turned out great. That thing is gonna look like the whooly mammoth of motorcycles

Thanks Josh and Bill. Bill the body is roughly 5oz and it is lined with some of that nicer pig skinning lining leather (the smooth subtle stuff),

Thanks guys, Charlie the rivet is primarily for show but when using it if you squeeze the case a tad to open it up right there in the corner where the stitching starts joining the two pieces is where it stresses at so I figured it couldn't hurt to have a little reinforcement.

Thanks to Ed (Bearman) for sharing this pattern a while back. Ive made two of these so far for people at work and they really like them. These are freebies that people get everyonce in a wile. First time trying this stamping type. It was a little difficult but no worse then basketweave stamping just this darn crafttool is not exactly even. I only lost the correct orientation 2 or 3 times but could tell right away. 5oz lined with pig, dyed tan and antique with dark brown. Sealed and polished.

Cant help ya identify the leather but the pouch turned out very good.

Coming along very nicely. That stuff is almost to realistic looking, its kind of creepy but I gotta keep checking it out lol. Hope it all works out for ya in the end.

Very cool. Those photos seem like they should be in the opposite order, atleast for a horror flick they would be lol.

Thats a good idea with being able to roll it up a bit. Ill have to remember that. Turned out pretty good too, nice and neat.

That turned out excellent. Construction looks very good with nice stitching. That leather looks really nice also. That bag should last a very very long time.

Thats a good idea. I have definitely not scene it before the first time I saw you do it. Like your own makers stamp without the stamp.