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Oh yea now i remember lol.

I love this truck

you can smooth out some of the imperfections by running the beveling tool back and forth over your work with just hand pressure.

and it comes much sooner than you think lol.

i would start by searching this forum for a few days virtually everything you need to know is in this knowledge base.

You will be surprised at what you will make in the future. if you take one thing from "Sheridan Style Carving" It should be the last paragraph on page 98 under helpful hints.

I use the nerdiest headband type I could find with my 2x readers underneath and wear it like a badge of honor.. Have some fun in life heck yea...

Your file pouch idea would be a needed and excellent addition for sure if you can figure out how to add it on to your existing sheathes. I bought cheapo 5 dollar machetes and have one stuck in about everything that leaves the road. lol same with cheap knives. I'm going to grind a new blade out of 1095 and temper it to the point it bends instead of breaking and put on a nice handle then maybe a new sheath as well. Always wanted to do justice to a blade so plain but so purpose-built and functional.

I'll add some stamps don't need to be top quality to work well while others do need to be very precise to get a good effect.

those look great!! I use a cut-off machete with about 15 blade" for pack-ins instead of a hatchet. Lighter and just plain better for choppin small stuff.

thats the ticket!!! cartridges are expensive and rimless ones don't play fair and is added assurance on the off chance the person actually rides a horse with it on.

I haven't tried corn, but it reminded me of an old story I read where an old cowboy bought a pair of boots that were too tight. So, he packed them with dry corn, filled them with water, and the following day the corn expanded and they were stretched way too big seems ripped and unusable. I used bbs and some plastic beads I recovered out of a kid's store-bought bean bag for the one below I made but it didn't take overnight to form them so corn would work IMO without causing bumps depending on leather thickness very thin leather might show bumps, A guy might try rice, air soft pellets, or any source of small plastic or glass beads or dried grain. I would avoid sand unless you feel you can clean it out well enough. oh and pack it hard in from the bottom up don't fill it then try and pack it won't stretch the leather .

mark the piece that will show mark the starting hole of the other piece glue them up then use an awl.

yea that's why a guy still needs the books and why they are so expensive. IMO but the web is only half a**ed at best. As i see it the basics of most styles are so the artist can be faster and easier. the the tools fit the size of the pattern the patterns fit the work. Sheridan for example starts out with circles indicating the area for the flower everything flows around the flower basic flower and leaf tapouts are used then the stems and leaves are added all flowing around the original circle pattern. Then the tooling is done in a very specific way but all repeatable and becomes muscle memory for the artist to the point most is free hand drawn onto the leather itself. some sheridan saddles have dozens of these repeated images the flowers are rotated so they appear different but are in fact the same image. All done with just a few specific stamps and edgers. Sheridan also uses bar grounders specifacllyfor background

well maybe I can help a lacing chisel is what you need for punching lacing holes they come in different widths to match your lace. I glue it up before lacing i'm sure someone will follow up with their own methods also as leatherwork is not written in stone lol.