Mutt !!!!!!!!!! Haven't been around much,but glad to see some of your work. Dude, I can't believe you fell for the tape,punch holes and cut deal !!! I have many of Tony See patterns and they are great, just being a self taught, make a reusable template kinda guy, i don't use his instructions. I use my diamond chisels or my sewing MO-Sheen(which seems to be frowned upon with Tony's followers) and of coarse have to do some tooling on them ;).
I print the patterns and use spray adhesive to glue them on poster board to be reused.
The bag looks great, I love everything about it !! I wish i could post pics of the stuff I make, but cant figure this platform for the life of me(even have a stupid resizing app and still no go) !!
Tony is a great guy(I've chatted with him many times) and an awesome designer !!
Anyway, regards Amigo !!!