finally!!!tears of joy rather than tears of anger. i have been searching sooo long to find good instructions on how to braid the handle. >< >< ><...thats me jumping up and down thank you so much for this. i am not nearly as good as many of you here...but i love working with leather and can only hope to get as good or close to as good as you all. now i just need some good intructions for doing leather corsets :s thank you again. by the way...Drac..what kind of work are you in???