MADMAX22

Very cool, keep us updated.

Looks great.

Looks really good to me. Yeah forming those guys can be a battle sometimes. Those are some nice colors. Now you gotta get ahold of that passenger seat and do that up as well.

Saw this on the chopper forum and had to come over here to comment on it. Amazing wallet. Great work with all that stitching and use of so many different leathers.

Great looking pouch, everything goes together very well.

Very nicely done seat. Really like the little spidey.

I think it will depend on what type of seat it is. On the solo seats guys seem to use pretty thick leather all the way around, up around 7/8 oz or so if I remember correctly. Im sure they will step in and correct me if Im wrong. For my big touring seat that I recovered I used thicker in the seat area around 8oz and thinner around the sides to aide in molding it to the shape of the seat. I used about 5oz in these areas.

Usually hardware stores or even walmart. Usually those little guys are for cart tires, wheelbarrows things like that.

Also you can use one of those really course wood files, the kind with the bigger teeth that allmost look like little half circle blades. Thats what I have used to do the final forming with around the edges. They are relatively cheap also.

Make it big so hell grow into it. I havnt gotten a oblong punch yet and just use the two hole punch with a chisel method but soon Ill be getting the oblong punch as it makes it easier. Thats all the advice I got lol.

When you say add to the draw I am not fully understanding this. When you are doing a holster like this usually you outline the gun, then take the width of the gun and cut that in half, now add this (half the width) measurement to the stitchline. So basically your stitchline will be the outline of the gun plus half the width of the gun. When you wet form the holster this should make it nice and tight atleast in my limited experience.

The only hardware I use on mine are chicago screws. Other then that unless you need to buy the actually attachment hardware for the rifle itself I am not sure. That would be probably gun supply stores or the manufacturer.

Very nicely done.

Thats one kickass looking strap dude. Great job all around in construction, style, and carving.

Thats what I have used on mine. Not sure if its the best thing to use but I have not had any complaints. Ofcourse I have sold most of the slings on ebay when I got a chance to make one so you usually dont get any good feedback later on down the road. So far I have only lined the portion that is padded that goes over the shoulder. I use 1/8" neoprene covered in the suede. Works pretty good.

Lucky man, thats a nice piece for sure.

Those look really good imo. I really like your choice of leather gives it a very cool look.

Pretty good looking seat. Braiding isnt to bad and overall looks good for your second seat. Be sure to tamp the lacing when your done to smooth it out, I use the mallot for this job. I love the vinegaroon too. Work on your wet molding a little bit to smooth it out some. Depending on what foam is underneath this can be easier said then done. Be sure to practice your tooling as well, you could use a little depth, check out paul barnetts tutorials on tooling, it will help out alot. Overall turned out nice though.

Thats the thing with the bikes you gotta take a look at it or get some measurements and see what will work. For the toolbag I made for a buddies roadking windsheild I used the same design as the fork bag but we made a aluminum bracket that I covered with leather and put some strap loops on it. It worked out pretty good. Be a little inventive and figure out what will work best for the application.

If you can get the motorcycle pattern set from tandy and then you can use that as your basis. Also take a look around here on this section for the bags and see what others have done. There is also a great video someone did Ill have to link to if I can remember where its at. Found it, Ian did it, couldnt remember which motorcycle guru did it lol. Read thru this thread. http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=14271&st=0&p=87016&hl=tool%20bag&fromsearch=1entry87016

Haha great work Tim. Both projects turned out looking very good.

Great looking case, I would like to see the back as well since IM working on a similer one myself. Excellent stitching.

Great looking belt, dig the belt buckle also.

Great looking knife and sheath, you and your Buddie did a outstanding job with it.

Thats a pretty cool idea. Neat looking design and art work. Good job with it.