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Sheep skin Parchment has been used as paper for centuries and still exists; you can buy it, and it would be more period correct than chamois. You can use almost anything you can put on regular paper, just do some testing for bleed out.

It was considered the most sanitary method for sheep at the time and has been used successfully for far longer than modern methods. We used to help with calving and docking just to get a bucket of fresh oysters lol Young and fresh from calves are the best, but sheep are good too. Man, branding is a chore every young kid should help with at least once in their life. Plenty of dirt, crap, and bruises to go around lol, it's hard work but teaches a lot about community and family.

LOL, now you have a new years goal, good luck!!🙂

Growing up, we had two types of tea. Lipton's hot tea or Lipton's iced tea, lol. A funny sheep story about when my wife and I first met. We were going out to see my folks one weekend, they lived in ranch country anyway, we were driving along, and we passed a herd of sheep, and it was docking season. So I started telling her about how the Basque shepherds castrate the sheep with their teeth, they slit the bag with a knife, then pull the testes out with their teeth. She, of course, thought I was pulling her leg and wasn't going for it a bit. Not two minutes later, we came around a curve in the road, and there they were lol Two old Basque herders castrating sheep, and just as we went by, the one guy bends down and pulles em out with his teeth and spits them in a bucket. Jeez, the purest look of OH MY GOD what did i just see on my wife's face you could ever imagine. I had to stop i was laughing so hard. She turned about half green and didn't talk much for a bit, but she believed my stories after that, lol, for a while. At one time, the county I live in was the largest wool producer in the US. The wool would be stored in huge Quonset huts here in town, then loaded on the train and shipped out. I still have my great uncle's sheep wagon, built after he came back from WW1. BTW, Rocky Mountain oysters are the bomb man sheep,beef, or Elk!!!

lol I can believe that after opening a tea bag to see. Thats exactly what it looks like.

So the other day I was at the store, I'm the grocery getter, a daily chore most of the time. The wife wanted some teas, herbal mostly, but i saw a box of Earl Grey, and it reminded me of my dad, he had tea with his supper every night. He was raised by his grandparents, and his grandfather was an Imigrant from Ireland, so maybe that's why. Anyway, I bought it, and it was ok but not anywhere near the good stuff, so I ordered a pound of loose leaf, and it arrived yesterday, Ahmad brand, london based co. It's really aromatic and has no bitterness. I compared it to the tea-bagged stuff, and jeez, it doesn't even look like the same thing with Bergamont scent about every forth bag its ground to dust. American food processors can f up the best things.

Help those kids!! That's what life is about. It looked like a great time. There is a ton of good contact info you just can't find in an internet search. I still can't believe the amount of inventory you folks bring to the show.

I just posted a link to the Las Vegas leather show, check it out, there is a lot of contact info for leather supplies of all kinds.

Another very well done video with tons of contact info.....

I start with my closest pattern, then use various measuring devices to adjust for the differences, usually keeping the top stitch line of my design as a constant. My most used holster design originated with a 1911 pattern that I made, and I have altered it to accept anything from a Colt Anaconda to a Taurus G3C. The basic methodology was taught to me in grade school, lol, back in the day we were taught to use rulers, compasses, protractors, and such in Geometry class and i didnt forget how i guess.

I checked out a couple of YouTube videos. seems its a little hammer-like deal that just puts down the impressions then uses regular acrylic paints to color the impressions so its not really anything like a tattoo at all. No ink under the skin. Kind of gimmicky if you ask me, BUT its a way to learn, use and gain some real artistic skills and would look better IMO than a cut and paste laser image no matter how well executed. Sorry folks, I'll take the human effort over machines any day. If money weren't an object i would probably try it out but it is so i might try to recreate the idea with homemade tools. LOl a thick pointed stylus and a mallet. LOL after I wrote this i searched YouTube again, there is a video on how to make one out of a 60 dollar tat gun. so if you have the urge to try and don't want to spend a lot of money.......

Don Gonzales has some videos on saddle work if you use you tube.

lol i asked my daughter about this, she is a tattoo artist. She laughed and said, can I make 200 bucks an hour doing it? She wasnt very impressed but did say it would be good practice for the real thing. I think if you're already an artist and have some skill in painting and such, it could be worth trying.

I will add that firearms have to be protected from their environment. Here in the high plains desert of Wyoming, the culprit is dust more so than humidity; we basically have no humidity to speak of, so oiling my weapons is diferent and much less than in more humid environments like down south. If I oiled up my gun and inside the holster i would come home with a gun and holster full of dust and dirt.

Yeah, you're the man!! those are the coolest books I've ever seen. Your work is master-level for sure. I can't stop looking at them lol.