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thanks for clearing that up, I think. I guess I would have to see them worn. I assume they strap on just below the knee and not the waist, cuz that wouldn't make sense. just one more question tho, don't the tops of your legs get sunburned? okay, I'm sorry I couldn't resist being obtuse. I'll have to google these to see how they're worn. I'll bet they look cool tho. kinda like mucklucks for cowboys.

very nice JR. it must be nice having someone to share ideas and thoughts on projects with who actually knows what is involved in the process. beautiful work Arvis

lol Tom, how did you come up with that? I reaaly like it, especially the color. WTG

really nice work. I like the dye job also, as for single versus double action airbrush. I think you get better control from the double, and the Paashe VL has a little wheel in front of the trigger that will let you set the trigger to act like a single action, but with very fine control.

very cool project. I'm with Pete, I'd be interested in how you did the ring also.

really nice work pete. great use of scraps, I might have to borrow this idea.

I like it, I don't have a clue what it is, but I like it. whats a chink used for?

very nice work. that was very clever use of acorns on the clock.

Whoa, very interesting project. I can't wait to see more.

spider, man that is freaking wicked. would make a great tail light cover with the red glow comming out the openings. oh great now you got me thinking again lol.

yep, it woke me up. at first I thought it was the dog running through the house ( its an old house and shakes if I sneeze hard) but there was no pitter patter of puppy feet, then I thought maybe I was in t he middle of a full blown poltergiest manifestation (two teenage boys in the house and thats about all that we haven't experienced with them <grin>). then I figured it had to be a quake, it's funny how your mind works when just waking up to something like that, my wife said she had the same thoughts about what it was when it woke her too. the after shock freaked me a little tho, I was on a 8 foot ladder right next to 2 large air handler ducts that ran for about 50 feet down the hall of the school we're working on. there was 2 pipe fitters working at the opposite end from me and all of a sudden the 2 ducts started dancing around like crazy. I thought the guys at the other end were shaking them, but when I looked down to see what they were doing, they were looking back at me probably thinking the same thing. thats when I got down from the ladder and found out we had just had an aftershock, boy they named that right!

the same goes for me LB, I'm still on the learning curve also. I really like what you did so far though. keep up the good work.

as some of you know I've been having a real bear of a time getting a handle on dying my projects without them streaking up on me. what I've failed to mention is that I've been using tandys highlighter colors as my primary dye. this is because I got a 12 bottle kit for a great price and it seemed to have most of the colors I want to work with, and in my haste to start cranking out projects I thoroughly overlooked one important word in the product I'm using as a stain...HIGHLIGHTER. now in my feeble defence I have to say that tandy really doesn't tell you exactly how to use this product as a highlighter, but insted they simply give the same directions as with regular dye. in essence apply with a damp sponge in circles then remove excess with a dry sponge and buff with wool. what they don't mention is that if you use a slightly damp sponge or rag you can take off more stain in areas that you want to highlight, hence highlighter. so to speak more clearly this product is made to be not as permanant as regular dye and the more water and rubbing you use more of the dye can be removed, even on a peice that has dryed overnight, if you come back and touch it with a damp cloth you will still remove some dye. this is very cool once you know it because you really can get some varying shades, although it does take some work to get it to feather out properly and most of the time I wind up with blotches of light spots, but since I've just figured this out I have some playing to do with different degrees of dampness to my rag I'm removing stain with. anyhow I just thought I would pass this on to those who hadn't figured it out yet. my bottom line though is the reason I was having such trouble with this stuff is because I was trying to use it as a base color and wound up just moving the pigment around while applying my finish. although it does stay in place as long as you don't touch it while applying your finish, so spray finish seems to be the only way to acheive this. Phil

thanks Ken, so you recomend carving as prescribed above, but only on leather that is thick enough to handle it. thanks again for the tip.