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Thank you for the tips and I will keep working on my drawing/design layouts. Thank you for the help, I’m definitely no artist but I’m trying to be.

Those are some great looking bags, great design and perfect color combinations.

If your using a brush it, it just takes layers. One trick I use is to go over it with a coat of white paint or acrylic dye then paint the color you want. If doing things like letter you can paint with bottles that use needles.

First bag off the new machine, it’s not perfect due the user getting heavy footed a couple times.

That is a ton of stitches!!!! I intentionally didn’t keep track of the stitches in my wife’s purse. If there isn’t the requisite bad stitch or an error here or there then it’s not hand crafted. The maker will always see the mistakes and nobody else will notice them.

Lots of great holsters there

Beautiful bag!

Some great looking shops! Heres mine in the basement. I'm cleaning up some areas so I can make more room to work.

So I screwed up a piece and learned myself a lesson. I was making a fire fighters radio strap and forgot to stamp it. The dye was still wet so I wiped the area I needed to stamp with water stamped and then let dry. Polished it up after dye dried but the section I had stamped wouldn't shine was dull/flat. I figured at this point the piece was ruined anyway so I put resolene on it let it dry and tried to buff out the stamped area to no avail. So if your looking to get a flat look to your project wipe it down with water while the piece is still damp from dyeing. Happy little mistake

Looks good

Both look good

Very nice room rigs

I use skidmore and I have never had a problem with it on anything from by end boots or vegtan straps.

Looks good, what did you use for your colors?

Check out JLS leather he has some good patterns. I've used a couple of them as a base and altered them to my liking.

Melamine would work well, just glue it down.

What style? Pancake, IWB, avenger?

Really nice design and work

For a first attempt I’d say you did good. The forming looks good, yes I’d trim excess off the barrel. Personally I like 1/8 to 1/4 inch which I roll over the barrel end into the opening, this gives a finished off look to me.

Absolutely beautiful work.

So here's my first attempt at drawing a floral design. Please critique.

Great work

You could use 4-5 veg tan or latigo, both would give to body/shape. You could also use lighter leather and use a bag stiffener and line it.

Nice rigs

Very nice bag. I said the exact thing after doing a purse with liner and shoulder strap. Bought a CB3200 right after.