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What an awesome gift. There’s a lot of generosity in this community!

Love the coloring. Nice job.

Buckleguy.com has a wide variety - some flimsy, some quite sturdy.

Looks nice, I like the flash style look of the swallows and banner.

Someone on here a while ago mentioned liking the Swann Morton scalpel, I picked one up and definitely agree. It’s an oddly comfortable handle and works well for tiny curves and detail cutting.

Really nice job! Her hair in particular turned out really well.

Love it. Definitely one of the appeals of leatherworking for me is the sense that these materials and tools can be used to make something that’s been being made forever, or something totally new. Endless possibilities even with a limited toolset.

Awesome, @Vikefan, thanks for sharing. @battlemunky, I heard that idea a long time ago and had forgotten about it - I’ll have to try it, would be a fun training project for the mutt.

Looks great @CindyCLewis, nice job! Would love to see a pic of it on the dog.

Nice, I like the silhouette effect a lot.

Ordered a paper catalog from you guys and wow it was more than I expected. Reminds me of poring over thick paper catalogs as a kid! I like shopping online but there’s something to be said for a nice catalog like that.

Dieselpunkro has a couple of free patterns for ornaments if anyone is looking for a jump start: https://www.leather-patterns.com/freestuff Not nearly as nice as your feather though Chuck, nice work.

Hope he’s still got a flip phone to put into it, they’re getting hard to come by! Nice job, it looks great and I’m sure he’ll like it.

Those look comfy and warm! Nice job.

Nice improvement, @Wisdomsleather! What do you see looking at your recent work that you would like to improve?

Hoo boy, those are nice. Functional artwork.

Those are excellent! What’s the game?

Doing jobs for difficult people with whom you need to keep on good terms can be the worst. Years ago my artist wife took a logo design job for someone from our church. Many, many, MANY hours later he had something he was satisfied with and she had determined that custom art wasn’t worth her while. We would see his truck around town for a while with the logo on the side and she hated the sight of it.

Whole lot of weird butthurt responses in this thread considering OP was just trying to meet the needs of a client with the skillset he had. If a fellow doesn’t want to use alternate materials for a client that’s fine, tell the client it’s not your gig and move along. If someone else wants to give it a shot and try for advice here along the way I don’t see why anyone should be offended. We’re all here because we love leather, obviously - but I see nothing wrong with someone choosing to use their leather skillset on a different material to make a buck from a client who wants to pay for it.

Really nice job, that looks as nice as they come.

I haven’t seen anything quite like that, but the first picture looks an awful lot like one of these to me... https://www.amazon.com/ACCO-Paper-Clips-Jumbo-Smooth/dp/B003XOXUK2/

Nice job, the stitching is eye-catching.

Those are great! The lacing looks excellent on the mug cover, that will feel nice on the fingers.

Nothing wrong with that, all part of the process sometimes. Use fabric, paper, scraps, whatever it takes to figure out how the pieces are going to fit together to give you the result you want.

I like it, nicely done.