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welcome from wunerful Wyoming!

looks thinner than 3/16th get an accurate as you can measurement. Are you replacing straps or making something else?

i've made a couple for my hawks. I'm sure you could adapt. they wrap around. And like Frodo says don't lose the looks she's a beauty.

welcome from Wyoming.

your welcome! good luck and look forward to see what you make.

you posted one! its as good as any others.

great idea!! a guy could carve, paint or wood burn some decoration you may want to flatten the bottoms a little so it'll sit up straight.

Maybe maybe not learn with a grain of salt! The lacing it self was for the main purpose of adjustment still is. There are no experts on wearing or using chaps giving you answers me included. I'm sure part of it may be safety part of it comfort part of it because as the lace broke out on the range and there was only enough left to tie them on by one hole.

the tandy library has some free ebooks also.

i didn't know that what a shame. But like you my career with computers started with dos and ended when i retired and i plan on keeping it that way lol. I only use them now for this.

Staged pictures like this were very common, photographers would set up at carnivals, dances, just about any public events here is a picture of my great grand daddy taken in about 1920 from what i can gather. It was taken at t a local happening of some sort. i have found other pictures in the local museum where he lived of the set but none of anyone with his clothes so surmise some or all of them were his own. We used to have the chaps and i put them on couple of times when i was a kid. I'm sure the artifacts and some of the getup were probably props. If you can enlarge the chaps you can see there are holes to completely tie up the front but only a few are used. My feelings not having actually ever had to wear a pair for work is that they probably didn't lace them all the way for comfort as much as safety, A belt for example could hang up on a saddle horn also but I've never heard of anyone being drug to death while hung up on a saddle horn? you can see how uncomfortable it would be completely tied as compared to one or two ties. My brother just let me know this photo taken pre grandma which is pre 1896.

i would suggest this book if you are really interested to learn about that portion of our history. Goes into every detail. The most comprehensive book i have ever read.https://www.amazon.com/Great-Plains-Walter-Prescott-Webb/dp/0803297025 i would suggest this book if you are really interested to learn about that portion of our history. Goes into every detail. the most comprehensive book i have ever read.https://www.amazon.com/Great-Plains-Walter-Prescott-Webb/dp/0803297025

excel is awesome once you learn how to write those formulas. Had a kid from Canada i teach me while he was incarcerated for fraud. Smart kid anyway. i created a data base for my motor pool. 67 vehicles and i could tell you exactly every penny, every mile , all service records and when the next maintenance was due. It cut down paper work for my mechanic by 75% and i could print out my budget stuff in minutes. If i were to use anything for my inventory it would be excel.

Hey that's a good idea and i have some.

i used a putty knife for a skiver for a long time. If its good steel it will hold an edge. you know a guy could build a very simple cutting tool that works on a fulcrum just like he does it basically longer handle with a blade on it like a paper cutter only smaller, sharper and cooler lol.

couldn't have said it better !!

so that is what the curved one is for cool indeed!

wha, who, me?

hey now i still have my fanner but it wont pop caps anymore lol. I do need to make a new holster. Festus Hagen the greatest cowboy ever lived!! Now doncha see.

i like your key chain!!

sure enough it came with three needles one straight one curved and one that looks like a huge sewing machine needle. All dull as fro you couldn't pound them through with a hammer lol. I'll be sharpening one up and learning something new!!!!! Thanks for the info!

lol i have one of those never even looked at the needles. I just thought it was junk.

wonder where a guy could get the sewing needle he uses?

I have this book, it shows a lot of technique of beadwork on original artifacts. https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/beadsbeadworkof00orch

I'm sorry i have to put my money on the man not the machine. Quality comes from the human element more than anything. You can buy a clicker press and make a perfect product in shape, but it still wont enable you as a person to learn or acquire the experience and skills to cut out that same product by hand better. It also wont necessarily make the product better quality but it will look perfect in shape, be cheaper to make, and be faster to do. On a global scale he is probably just as much of a normal leather worker as your vision of one. lol. Its a big world lol