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Yea I didn't think of that. Hmmm, quite the dilemma haha.

The skull looks awesome! I'm on the fence about the oak leaves. I like the skull without them but that's because it looks unfinished with just the two corners of oak leaves. Maybe if you did all 4 corners and framed the skull in oak leaves? Otherwise I'd vote to leave them out. Just personal preference. It's for your brothers bar right? Maybe he has some input on what he would like?

Gmace99 beat me to it. They are bleed knots. It looks like you have 3 bleed knot "chains" and both ends of each length of bleed knot attaches to the brow band. If I were to approach this project I would start with the center and add the other two. The center I'm defining as the strand with the loop at the tip of the triangle at the bottom. The other two strands go through that one to make the lattice. I would make the lattice first then attach it to the browband, that leaves room for minor adjustments if needed. Just my own thoughts on how to approach it. I hope you get it, it looks really cool and unique

That's cool. I like that idea.

Poor Italians sacrificing their calves for us...Must be painful.. All jokes aside, I like it. It looks like quality leather and the hardware looks quality as well. I like the functionality of wrapping up the watch like that to prevent burning and such. Does the strap pass through the part the watch is attached to? If so that's a good idea, you can have multiple quick change watch straps for the same watch.

Very cool. I've never seen a leather one. The ones I see are made out of paracord. But that's just because I frequent paracord pages n such. The benefit to leather is that you can size your strands according to your core. Whereas paracord you can't. Just start out slow and you build up to more and finer strands. I'd try 6 or 8 next, then maybe 12 or 16 hehe looks awesome to me

For those following this thread, I found a product that caught my attention. It's a marbling kit. Their website mentions it can be used on leather(they specialize in paints for fabric and paper) but it did mention leather. I ordered it and will do my best to capture the process and post pics of my failures and successes to see if this is also a viable option or not. The company name was Jacquard I believe. If anyone wants to look into them as well. I am inspired by cjartist's results here and have to give it a go myself

Sweet. Looks good to me. And there's nothing g else out there like it.

How do you mean? Did you want to tool the words on the holster? Or did you have something else in mind? Like using dye and a stencil to "print" the words on it? I'm not aware of any stencils. But you could find an image or even the correct font and print it out. Then take an exact I knife and cut the words out and use that as a stencil. Just an idea. It would be fairly labor intensive to do but may look cool. The only other process I've seen is laser printing. I'm not too familiar with that process but there was a thread here a while back about it. And someone made a we the people laser printed holster. You may try and search for that

Hey all, I'm curious who here may have used the purse patterns from Springfield leather and if you feel they are good patterns. I'm new to bags and and a nice basic but elegant bag pattern and can't seem to find anything. I'll eventually make my own but want to start with one to better understand construction. I'm mainly interested in the divided bag and bucket bag patterns they have but I'm on the fence about buying the patterns just yet. I'd like to see any and all bags and am open to all suggestions. Thanks! You all rock!

Ah I see. I'll definitely have to try this thanks for the info

Awesome thanks. One more question. How did you float the inks? With a brush or dropper or something else?

You used suminagashi inks? Have you noticed any bleeding or rub off or anything? I'm curious how leather dye will work in place of suminagashi inks. I'll have to try it. Did you do anything to prepare the water? I know you don't do anything Hing to the water with suminagashi but you do with European marbling. Just curious about the process. Looks super cool

Looks good. I agree with JLS and fredk. A deeper sitting mag would be more secure but if the retention is good I don't see much of an issue. I don't know if it's the photo or if the leather was dirty or something. Like JLS said it could be cleaner. I thought I saw some tool marks from where you wet molded it? Maybe spend a little more time smoothing those out and it would looks a hundred times better. Also, personal preference here, I would like the bottom of the pouch to be straight instead of having that dip in it. All in all it looks functional and like it'll last a while. Keep it up!

@Boriqua that looks very nice. I never thought of doing the stairs two with thread for stitching before. It looks real nice Billybopp, Sounds like everyone already helped you out with good info. I look forward to seeing what you make with the technique

I never knew there was such a product. I know paper marblers use carrageenan but the mix is a lot thinner. I understand it has to be thick to support the leather. I wonder if there is a way to use a looser mix that you can skim and reuse?

Very nice. That's a lot of bullet loops. A lot of worked put into that rig. Did you stitch or rivet the loops?

@kiwican that's what I was saying! How cool we both thought of marbled paper and applying those techniques to leather. I've always wanted to marble paper but I don't have the space for yet another hobby haha. But I may have to try marbling leather one day. Do you know what the lady used for the color? Was it paint or dye?

Haha. Are you familiar with water marveling? They use broom straw bundles to splatter the ink. Kind of like your paint brush technique. I wonder if that would work with dye as well

I would use a box next time hehe. What did you use to splatter it?

Wow, that's an ambitious project. I made a paracord conquistador bracelet and it took me like 4 hours haha. I'd like to see the final product. I bet it'll look nice, it's a beautiful braid.

Nice!

That's interesting. I would think that at the time of production they were pretty large scale. I'm no history buff so this is just speculation. The lacquer finish would make sense because it could be easily and quickly applied. Do you think the dye would be vinegroon or possibly dip dyed?

I think rawhide is traditional. At least in the states. Don't quote me on that, but not too many roos hopping around here haha. I have seen latigo reins as well and I imagine they work just fine. I've seen very expensive rawhide reins online, but those were all hand made by very skilled artisans, far more skilled than I could ever imagine. Upwards of $800 for some of the romels I saw. I would think that you could do much finer work with rawhide than latigo, but latigo may be easier to use. However, I see no reason why you couldn't or shouldn't use kangaroo. It's cheap and widely available for you, it's very strong, and it's practically meant to be braided. I say give it a go.

Looks great to me