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beautiful job I have an iver johnson trailsman its a clone to the colt.

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awesome work

you might like this read. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/aa.1910.12.2.02a00080

If you have the tools you can make as straw stamp. Flatten a stainless bolt head and then cut some random lines with a small triangle file like the stamp on the left.

i misspoke a coup stick and a war club , the one with a big big rock, are different, A war club could be used to count coup as well as a spear , bow, stick or the hand. But the using only the coup stick in battle was the greatest deed.

I love the history! The native Americans carried a coup stick, most had a big rock on them. it was believed that touching a live opponent in battle was as great or greater feat than killing an opponent so they used the weapon to count coup .

it was actually taught to our office staff and councilors during the annual self defense training.

Chris one thing i learned working in a prison, bad people have brains and can use them fairly well and they don't usually let the victim determine the rules of the game. Face to face is more than likely going to be your only option. Funny thing i live in Wyoming it ranks at the top for states with the most guns per capita of any. I never carried until a few years ago, never felt the need. Now once in a great while i carry in town but always when traveling and always out in the sticks. Most folks here are the same as me. Most of what you folks see and hear on the news comes from the cities not the rural areas of the country. Now if i lived in the cities prolly a thumper and a shooter too and with my American bully at my side. We are truly being overrun, its a sad situation here. For you folks who work in an office , this works too!!!! just open it up and start swinging.

That is frightening! Canada has obviously started censoring a lot of news from the rest of the world.

i/he will do that it also looks like the crown is higher on the sides than the front, I think i can pattern it with heavy paper pretty easy.

Thanks Fred i didn't know that. In my neck of the woods we have cowboy hats and baseball caps lol I knew it wasn't one of them.

sure has been kept quiet on the news.

highly unlikely i think the original ones were probably big enough to get on over the pants and boot but I'm just not old enough or versed enough to know. The new ones have zippers so can be narrower and that stitch would be ornamental. Now you know your looking at shotgun chaps other types like bat wings are not made the same and have different methods to go around the leg.

Thanks Fred i have the tandy patterns i may have to use one of those and change it up a bit. This is what he wants

Does anyone have a fedora pattern that they would share? My son wants to try his hand at making one.

Thank you! Thanks!

that is called a running stitch, IF i remember right the legs are basically sewn together with those laces. i have no idea if an actual diagram would be available for that. but its covered in most lacing books. You can also add Conchos there. Tandy has a pattern pack for chaps that might show you how.

Dull punches aren't necessarily bad punches, sharpen them, then you will know if the metal is to soft to hold an edge. then you will know if they are bad punches. you just cant do much leather work without learning to sharpen stuff.

just saw your link Bruce you have some fine tools for sale those wood handled punches are the bomb! i couldn't see your video but dont know why someone wood think that a punch cant be made as sharp as a knife or cut leather just as easy by hand.

Thank you! My mom and dad taught me to be kind to people, that simple lesson has never failed me and has brought me as much joy as i have given, maybe more. Thanks friend! I laced all my stuff at one time, it ca be frustrating lol. Thank you. I appreciate the good words.

it look's as badass as it is.

thanks guys i will be giving it to her tomorrow she lives in the assisted living here in town i know all she has is social security to live on. always pay it forward.

Dang those are awesome!! Are they lined also?

Thanks!