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Heye ,thanks for all the imput and compliments they mean alot to me. But I cant take all the credit. It was with "alot" of help from from you guys that the peice has even gotten this far. As for the leather it is a heavy 4oz. I gotta go to the motorcycle shop and see if its ok to change their logo alittle,just need to bend it alittle to make it fit. Thanks again everyone. Now I need to break out the pencil and paper. Tom

Just a few more practice braids. The 9 strand braid is about 32 inchs. Made it out of 1/4" lace I cut from 3/4 oz. leather. Tom

Nope, didn't work. I'm still getting the same error message. Tom

Is anyone else having the same problem? When I click on the View New Posts tab I get an error message. It says Administrator has activated search flood control and I cant view the new posts. Bummer. If you can see this new post then it must be me. PM me if you can help , please. Thank you. Tom

Howdy from SC and welcome to the wonderful world of leather. The fact that you admit have been bitten is the first step. It just gets more addictive and fun from there. Tom

OOPS!! I meant to say I got the book yesterday. Sorry about that. I get alittle A.D.D. sometimes. I agree with you guys, the book is great. Some of the illistrations can be kinda tuff to figure out at first but you just have to keep after it. I think it is one of the best Tool investment I have made. Tom

Howdy from SC They all need alot of work but I just got the book today. It's harder than I thought it would be but still alot of fun. I kinda like the round edge braid. The third one down on the left. Tom

I think I saw that cow walking around back in my Hippy days. Tom

The book has a ton of designs you can use on belts. Right now I'm just practicing with different types. Tom

Your right about that Max. I live out on a dirt road and it gets pretty bad. Guess I need to break out the airbrush compressor and use it to air out the bottom of this thing. Tom

Your right about that. I've read so much last night and this morning that I think my brain is gonna pop. Tom

I got the Bruce Grant book "Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Brading" today. It was 50% off so I couldnt resist. Here's a pic of my first try at putting braid on a bracelet. Tom

Thanks David it's good to meet you too. I bet we could go to any leather shop in the US and sooner or later we'e meet another member of LW. Yep, thats pretty cool. Tom

Nah, fraid not, but I tried.

Yep, I too went to the local Tandy's. Got to meet another forum member. It's nice to put a face to the name. Picked up one of the sides that were on sale. Got a real nice one. 24sq.ft. and very clean. But I made one mistake, I bought Bruce Grants Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding. Now I wont be content till I have read it at least twice and braided a cow. From what I've seen just flipping through it, it looks like a great book. Also got a bunch of other stuff that I "needed". Yeah right. Ya got me, I just wanted it. Tom

Thanks guys. I put a thin peice of leather in there to keep the tools from knocking together. All and all it works pretty good. Tom

Heres what I have so far. I left the cheek bones kinda big so he'd look like the clock were I got the idea. The eyes on the clock are solid black so I put some flames in there instead. It needs some kind of background or something. I'm thinking of putting the local cycle shop name on it. M&M Cycles. They said I could put it in thier shop. Still have to do alittle detailing on the skull. Tom

Thanks guys, and gals. It's not making any noise now but I did go and get one of those chill pads to set the notebook on. You can hear the little fan running quietly in the background but the laptop is cool as cucumber. Not really sure how cool cucumbers get but this thing is doing good. Now. Thanks again, Tom

Couldn't get em all in the first post. Tom

I've been wanting to use this gold paint ever sinse I got it last spring. Tell me what you guys think of it. Also on the next one I'll punch the holes before I glue the zipper on. Tom

will do. My nephew said it might be the usb hub I'm using. He said to get one that is not powered by the pc because it draws alot of power. Get one that runs off a AC plug and that might help some. I have alot plugged into ithe hub. Tom

I may not be with you for awhile. So if I suddenly disapear you know what happened. PC pooped out. I'm unhappy about it but what can ya do? I'm thinking about going Macbook anyway. It's a compaq Presario F700 notebook. I let it cool down so it's working ok now. Well wish me luck. Hey, maybe it was just a one time thing. Later Tom

I wonder if a flaring tool for copper tubing might work. Tom

I've seen quite a few that I like. Thank now all I have to do is decide which one I want. Decisions decisions. Dont ya just hate em. Tom

When I saw that remembered that my mom has a photo cutter I think I'll try. Thanks. Tom Man they got some scary looking tools. Thank you.Tom