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At least it's a bit different. It's a sweet gun for sure, his is 45 70, it'll launch a water bottle lol. Thank you.

My son bought a new rifle and showed me this clicker-stamped sew-on thing on the net, actually said it was handcrafted. I didn't know running a clicker press was considered a craft. Well, anyway, it can be done differently, especially for a Henry lol. The 1/4" veg tan lace, skived and burnished, took about an hour of prep. Finished with real sinew, stained Bison brown.

Those Vikings had some pretty nice stuff.

Really nice work!!! You could thin down the leather a bit for human use if you're going to build them to sell, lol. But it will last a lifetime or two.

Beautiful animals!!

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.....