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yes finally the leaves are just coming on the trees and a little snow mixed with rain but now more rain than snow. I'll be getting the grill ready for summer lol. From what i see now most people are taught we aren't a part of nature. Myself i was brought up in it and would surely die without it. Hopefully i can get some pictures of the beautiful spring flowers this area has, not many folks see them.

very cool old book every thing you ever wanted to know about fixing shoes lol.

i know of those too. but mine is a crispen number 2 cobblers hammer and you made me do it, find more info. lol i found this info on this tool its to funny its for driving shoe nails!!!! dont know why it doesn't mar the leather but it doesn't https://books.google.com/books?id=opojidId2IEC&pg=RA1-PA3&lpg=RA1-PA3&dq=crispen+number+two+hammer&source=bl&ots=qhzm_4BnjR&sig=ACfU3U0y6TJ9kNXqFxERdDtOSZ7Lsbkegw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiinpq84dj3AhUgCTQIHSKxAsMQ6AF6BAgeEAM#v=onepage&q=crispen number two hammer&f=false

that is an art in itself!

been using this cobblers hammer for years with no marks whatso ever. Guess I'm stupid or somthin because i cant get it to mark the leather unless i beat the hell out of it or catch an edge.

jeez that sucks!

welcome and very cool quiver how hard is it to tan a carp hide never tried that? My son and i tan also.

you didn't stamp hard enough or get it damp enough before stamping. You can bevel around those and make them stand out better or use them as is. Use a resist on areas you dont want stained or polished or painted.

well turn the tables on her, ask her if she wants to do one out of leather. lol.

lol i use an old #2 crispen cobblers hammer, it is made with marks on the face. just touch it up with some sandpaper and get back to work. lol

i would hit a piece of leather with it and find out!

As you learn some real life history through genealogy you will find some surprising stuff indeed. Many countries sent their criminals and poor to the Americas to get rid of them, Germany and the UK especially. Many of Irish decent came as indentured servants, ( nice name for a slaves) and were thought at the time lower or as low in stature as the African slaves. Life wasn't easy for the poor back then and basically only two classes of people rich or poor. Free poor folks were farmers mostly because if they didn't farm they would starve that's all they had.

i have two Welsh families of Morgan's in my ancestry one of which i have documented to the point of knowing the ship they sailed on to America, and why they chose to come over on Mormon ships. lol. That Mormon mercenary tie to the Uk is a very interesting piece of history not many people understand or even know about being 100% American goes without saying lol, in fact I'm fifth generation Wyomingite which IMO makes me indigenous to Wyoming. But the trip my DnA has led through history is very interesting to me and is unique to everyone. I can now see for example my Montgomery line, which I thought was Scots Irish actually came from Normandy with Charles the great, and before that Normandy and before that from Sweden and Finland and also somewhere in history, most think prehistory from Africa. I can read and document my ancestors lives through the building of America, i have had family in every major war ever fought by the US, and on almost every new frontier during the founding of our great country. We are all a tiny bit of almost every ancestor before us and i also think if we all knew our historic past there would be much less racism and hatred in the world.

i like the sheath and the knife!! Great job I'm sure it will be cherished for a lifetime.

just think of it as a leather jigsaw puzzle . lol

You said it i am thinking the brick was warmed by the sun. Birds have always been a mystery to me they do weird stuff. they will nest in our lilac bush all summer, hopefully that will be soon its snowing again today lol it was almost 70*f. yesterday

on the red you crossed one stitch everything else is perfect . I hate to tell you but you will be about the only person that ever examines every stitch of your work so if you think you need to do better than this to sell then your wasting a lot of time and worry. Ask your self how many times you looked at the stitching on a product to the point your are doing now. Get to enjoying the process of making stuff the human way you don't have to be perfect your not a machine. Lets see some projects!!!

I always thought i was about half Irish and half German. do a dna test you will be surprised where you really came from lol!!! the results change as more folks do them and more data is collected but still very accurate. i have no idea why the data saved as it did? i have over 31,000 dna matches on ancestry alone. Ethnicity Estimate Scotland31% England & Northwestern Europe24% Wales15% Norway10% Ireland8% Sweden & Denmark5% Germanic Europe5% Benin & Togo1% Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples1%

had to take this. dove on a brick!!! Her beau is behind her sleeping too lol.

something to do with your off cuts!!!

those are awesome, i make many of my own tools also, including some stamps, most except some real intricate tools can be made easily with stuff laying around the house.

Lady bug lady bug fly away home!!! I love it!!

I don't think you get the choice of who to compete with anymore so i price stuff as i see fit. Just yesterday i saw on my wifes FB page leather cc holsters popping up for about 20 bucks each because i searched them. I cant compete with them at all. Its plain however we now also compete with an algorithm, hundreds in fact, that uses in most cases fake bots and fake likes on social media to push its implied sales and quality.