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MADMAX22

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  1. You did a outstanding job with all your leather work you have posted. I was wondering if you had any photos of anyone modeling your hip belts. Kind of want to see how they look on the person.

  2. Agreed very good job on the sewing. Looks very clean.
  3. Hey guys just wondering if there are any lefties that own a buck 110 that would be interested in a free sheath. I wet molded the top portion for my new knife but messed up and did it back wards for what a righty would normally prefer. Not finished with it yet but once it is done would prefer to send it to a good home. Preferably only US since I dont want to pay a big shipping price on it, Ill cover shipping to the lower 48 and maybe canada but I would have to look into it. I will post pics once I am done. There is a tiny very faint line on one side where the stitching wheel caught the edge of it but you cant hardly see it however it is enough that I wouldnt want to sell it on ebay to avoid someone complaining about it. This is for someone that actually will use it or knows someone that will use it. First come first serve. Thanks for looking.
  4. Thats turning out awesome. This thing is gonna be very cool once your all finished.
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    hip belt

    Those are pretty cool. Excellent job with that little bit of carving on that skull to have the pattern sticking out like that. Do you have some pictures of someone wearing them, would like to see how they fit the person.
  6. Only thing I can think of is lining them with something as Hilly mentioned. Must say 70k miles is pretty good considering the abuse saddle bags go thru.
  7. Hey Esantoro did you ever get ahold of any of those leathers you were after? I was thinking of picking up some of that crazy horse leather that waterhouse leathers had on sale, just wanted to play with it a bit. Was wondering if you had any input on whether you liked that kind of leather or not. I think its the same stuff thats on the my boots and it has some cool effects after being worn for awhile.
  8. That turned out excellent David. I think it still managed to show the tooling just fine. Do you think there is a chance you will get a pic of it on the bike?
  9. I originally hail from about 45min north of ya. I must say the only thing I dont miss about that place is the summer heat lol. Wanted to add that I believe that goat is really good for book binding, liners, various projects requiring thin leather. Also wallet innards. Things of that nature.
  10. Looks excellent, wonderful tooling and lacing. Took me a second but noticed the little screws that you have tooled into the label plate. Thats pretty neat (dont know why, guess Im a little weird), gotta ask did you use a phillips head for the center of them.
  11. Wow that turned out pretty darn nice man. I can see you being employeed to make a few (probably more like dozens) for friends and family. Looks like alot of work went into it, I can see why you say finally finished lol. What did you use for the background around the cross, I cant really see from the pics. Overall looks great to me, nice natural finish that will just get better with age. The only thing I would maybe look into trying is the front floral under the cross, maybe try to run the background that you do over the whole thing up to the floral and keep the regular backgrounder that your using on the floral just to within its boundaries. Hope you understand what Im saying. Thats just a little artsy thing that I am nitpicking at, it really did turn out good.
  12. I think (I dont know for sure) that Christian uses bevels and modeling tools to get the effect that he is after. He is very good at it to lol. David is also another self taught carving guru and he is here on this site. You could maybe pm him if you have specific questions or need help. As far as the paul barnett stuff just if anything kind of keep it as a foundation of a way to do it. You dont necessarily have to do it that way but it may help some. Good practice is the key though. Im sure your next one will look even better then this one did. Dont forget to post it up when you get it done.
  13. Bob's guide is about as good as it gets. I could be wrong also, could be just the leather or maybe any number of other things. Maybe the more experienced guys will chime in. I just had issues before when casing and not letting it sit long enough the cuts would show how you describe and or would kind of split sort of down inside the cut (hard to explain) and just not look good overall. Good luck figuring it out. Maybe post a pic if you can, pics usually help alot in figuring this kind of thing out.
  14. Those look great. Love the colors and great job on the tooling especially the lettering.
  15. Those turned out nice, like the designs you came up with.
  16. Why not throw it on your bike, may as well until you get ready to do another one. Get a feel for it on the bike. Plus then you can start showing off what youve done, maybe some of your buddies or passerbuyers are looking for there seats to get redone.
  17. Its hard to say since I didnt keep complete track of time. I would say it took a little while longer then it should since I had to design it from scratch basically. From start of design to final coat of finish and buff I would say I had a good 5 or 6 hours of steady work involved with a good portion of that being the stitching since I took longer with this one. This is not counting time to dry and oil and stuff that you need to let sit overnight for. I would ask Dave (DCKNIVES) who posted farther up how long he takes. He may take better track of time and has been doing this far longer then I have and serves a wider clientele. I would like to add that the stitching is about as close as I would risk going. With the 8 spi you have to be very careful with awl blade angle. If you do it right theres about and 1/8" clearance between holes, if not they can be right next to each other from awl point to point. I think next time I do something like this I will keep the 8spi on the inlay and try 7 and see how that looks.
  18. Looks like a really good start. Atleast you only took a couple months before making what got you started, took me allmost two years before I finally made myself a seat which was why I started in the first place. Lacing looks very good, overall seat construction looks really good also. Im not a seat guru though so wait for others for a definite answer. I think your tooling although for your experience looks pretty darn good can use some improvement still looks far better then mine did after a couple of months. The WandC will help some, its so nice to tool on. If you have not allready take a read thru the pdf's paul barnett loaded in his sub sections and study that. Print it off if you can so you can have it by ya while you tool and practice the techniques that he shows in them. This will really help your tooling pop alot. Still I think you did really great work so far. Keep going. EDIT" forgot Paul has just uploaded one lesson so far. There are far more infos on his website, some free stuff and some you gotta pay for but honestly it is well worth it in the long run if you plan on continuing playing with your leather work.
  19. OK so in my leather experience Ive primarily only worked with the standard tooling veg tan leather with various types of suede.pig, and exotic inlays and linings. I like making things as durable as I can and always seem to over engineer a bit to try and achieve strength and durability which has gotten me looking at using other types of leathers for certain projects or portions of projects. So now Ive gotten to think about incorporating some of the types I have not played with yet, primarily latigo, harness, bridle, and skirting leathers. I know the basics of these type of leathers. I know that skirting is essentially veg tan similar to the tooling leathers that you get but thicker from what I have scene and maybe a little stronger. Would I be correct in this thinking? Also from what I have scene with the saddles that I have looked at it tools much like the regular tooling leather does. Bridle I think is also primarily veg tan but comes predyed and has added oils and waxes. Now does this make for a more durable leather then say finished tooling leather does (after being dyed waxed and sealed)? Harness leather Im pretty unfamilier with, is this similar to bridle leather or is this something totally different as far as the tanning process or what is added to it after or during tanning? Finally latigo, I have scene alot of this used for belts and straps and other projects, does this offer a significant advantage over regular tooling leather for durability of straps and such? Maybe a rundown on the different types of the big advantages and such would be nice or a good link to info and possible experiences with using the above leathers in projects other then saddles and reins would be nice. Trying to expand my options when building things and learn a little more while doing so.
  20. I think if I remember correctly that this is usually from not casing the leather long enough. Basically the moisture is penetrating only so far but the very center of the leather is basically dry or close to it. Pretty sure this can be solved by doing the casing overnight or atleast a afternoon or some such.
  21. IMHO I would think that price is a little high however what you should probably do is figure out the price of the materials. Then find out how long it actually takes to make it (hands on time) and figure out how much you wanna get paid. This process is better then just throwing out a "I would like to get this for it price". EDIT: OK its been a while since I bought a holster so I looked around a bit and seemed like the average for pancake style holsters nicely boned was around 60-80 with as low as 25 and high as 90. Looking at market prices is also another thing to consider.
  22. Well here is the final version. Ive gotta take a break from making stuff for this knife lol. I think the shorter sheath with more of the handle sticking out will make handling everything far far easier. I went ahead and dyed it cordovan (deluted). I dont know what it was either the druggie neighbors (I dont care if ya smoke something but lowlife druggies I find really annoying) getting the cops called on them or the fighting next door or what but my stitching went all too hell. Also made several other mistakes and to be honest if this was going on ebay or was actually a money making commission piece I would of started over. However since its not and it will still function just fine I went ahead and finished it. Anyways suggestions, comments welcome as usual. If anyone has any questions about construction or lessons learned feel free to ask.
  23. Thats looking killer so far. Very nicely done with the flames.
  24. Definitely looks nice. First thought that came to mind with that first one is that you used a small tortoise shell lol. I agree with Luke these would look killer on some belts of corresponding style.
  25. Yeah for the short term. I think one of the biggest things with the military switching over is cost of the material and ease of construction. Not to mention the politics and money involved with contracts like that. From personal experience dont base somethings usefulness bases solely on that the military uses it. I agree nylon creations have advantages in some areas.
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