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Beautiful work @motocouture!

I'm throwing out a nod to Nigel's wallet pack as well. He encourages you to experiment and expand on what he has in the templates. It helped me quite a bit in how I approach making wallets. I can't recommend it enough and it is well worth the money.

Looks like a great trim knife you got there! You can likely skive really easily with it with some practice too.

Good deal! I was out in my dye shop on xmas morning and saw the swatch I was testing and wondered how you ended up making out on the issue.

Seriousing around more like it! Beautiful work.

Damn! It's the first thing that came out of my mouth when I saw it. Really nice job, I like the twisty stamping, not that the beaded backgrounding isn't great as well. And the lacing. And the initials. And the....I think you get it

It's cool @Handstitched, I hadn't even thought that it was temperature based. I have my shop inside and we are air conditioned. I have some of that way too overly waxed artificial sinew that at 50 C would probably drip if not completely slip off the bobbin/tube. I hope y'all get some sensible weather soon. That is HOT!

I only have large spools so I have a half inch piece of PVC pipe that runs the span of my workbench and I have them strung onto the pipe so I can just pull some off and forget about it. Its out of the way yet easily accessible. I've never even considered a drawer or keeping them bagged/confined. I don't seem to have a problem with dust or fading. I've been doing it this way for a few years now.

Like...Conan the Barbarian and Daniel Boone collaborated on a sheath together, I imagine it'd be something like that. Really cool!

I can't say anything that hasn't been said except for...thanks. I appreciate your work immensely Sir! Thanks for sharing it.

I got no help Sir but wanted to compliment you on the bags, those look great. Personally, I get a little scared when I use other than leather...things normally don't end well since I don't understand it as well as I do leather.

Backside looks great as well!

Really clean work Sir! I don't even mind the pointy end of the sheath, it's kind of a nod to the slightly odd (but beautiful) blade profile inside. Your stamping is straight and even. The only thing I would maybe have a less than glowing opinion on would be to have joined up the stitching from the slots to the other stitch line. Any shots of the other side?

I saw those punches when I bought my Sinabroks stitching irons. I think everything those folks make is gold. Those irons I picked up are glorious aside from the brass handle making your hands smell like, well, like brass.

Yeah, I'm going with stitching it too. If it were a keychain fob or something, I'd attempt it. Since there is a living thing on the end of it, and how the customer would feel about it if it did delaminate, I'd stitch it if I were making it. Bright side: that's some great practice on stitching

Yeah, but when you make something with a ton of holes @Sanch, that isn't really feasible. Mine didn't get clogged though. For instance, the Motoko 3 bag pattern has holes galore. There must be 1500 of them. Small ones too. If I'd have had to stop every third hole, that would've added so much time and momentum breaks. I have the cheap Tandy punches with the swappable punch heads too, nothing fancy. A line of six holes on a belt would be doable as long as there weren't a hundred belts. I feel for you @Ragingstallion, I just don't know what to do. Perhaps make a tool with a poker in it you can stop every once in a while and push them out. I'm thinking like a 4 inch nail in a half inch board or something simple like that.

That looks super cool!

Exquisitely clean design and workmanship as always Sir! I'm sure is was well pleased

The older Craftool stamps are far better quality than the modern ones are. If you can find them at reasonable prices, get them.

Looks 10 fold better! I need to do this.

That's a great ode to the man, even if he was just ones and zeroes. That was a great game and Arthur Morgan is maybe my favorite character aside from whoever you are in the Far Cry series. Looks just about perfect @Forester, fine work!

That looks really nice! Interesting seeing something different too. It has a balance to it for being so contrasting.

Looks like it worked out for you, congrats!

I've done it a couple of ways. I would either rub a block of it into the flesh side and hit it with a heat gun/blow dryer or melt some (pellets or chunk doesn't much matter if melted, amirite?) and paint it on the flesh side and use heat to make sure it melts in. If you go this route it could get a bit blotchy on the hair side if the wax makes it through all the way. If you are dying it, expect it to darken a good bit but it should help with blotchiness. If you fully impregnate the leather it'll be hard as all hell but it'll also be waterproof too. I made my son a dopp kit and waxed it and it is holding up way better than I imagined. He's hard on everything so I figured at a minimum it'd be all stained up but so far the wax has won! You could also use some dubbin but it doesn't seem to be as waterproof as just beeswax does.

Beautiful work!