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hard to say without more info and or pictures, if tanned they will be soft and flexable and if wetted they will stay flexable after drying. pickling is one step of the tanning so a guy could possibly finish the process. you will have to experiment with some pieces IMO.

a gardenian, they wear beautiful white hats in thier country. i have lilacs which will be blooming very soon as well as wild roses. i dug the wild rose years ago from the mountains close by. The smell of the two together in the early morn is unbelievable.

it depends on how they were tanned or specificly if they were tanned at all. most have only been pickled and why they are cheaper to buy.

What a great routine. man i love watching critters of every kind, go on a walk in the country every mornig sure puts a guy into the right frame of mind.

we have an abundance of ring necked doves here, they are an invasive species so....... They are yummy.

lol my daughter raises rabbits, just butchered five. Some of the best eating meat available. She started at the age of 12 and it was made clear they were for eating. She doesn't liek to butcher but she has no problem eating them. I think every person should spend a year on a farm. you should try my bread and butter jalapenos slices. Friggin awesome.

awesome product friend i wish you all the luck in the world!!

sweet!!! something eles to look for at the thrift store.

great looking piece your a natural, the sewing looks great.

very cool story! wonderful story indeed.

My wifes great grandfather retired from the railroad at the age of 89 two years ago went to work for them after he retired at 70. the reason young folk didnt work out wasn't becasue of the work enviroment it was because they couldn't pass a piss test or stay clean after they were hired.

Thank you i appreciate that.

thank you ! I like that strap setup on yours very cool.

really nice work i like that design for the strap

hey those look pretty good for glue indeed.

thank you i appreciate your nice comments. Brass is one of my favorite colors lol. you would be surprised i sell far more plain holsters than tooled i guess people around here are just good old plain folks. Or my tooling sucks. lol

that would be fun indeed. i have cooked alot of fish in tinfoil just wrapped and thrown into the hot coals. Just add a chunk of butter salt and pepper and your ready to eat in about ten minutes. same with spuds but they take longer to cook lol. Now i want to go fishing even more it was warm for a couple of days, woke up to an inch of fresh snow this morning.

my dad had a complete set from 10" to 24" we still have them and we used them all. Camping out and hunting as a family, the large 24 was the one we used to bury most often witha huge roast and all the fixins, potaoes carrots onions etc, man after being buried all day cooking when you pop the lid off the smell is out of this world after agood day in the country. THey are some of the best outdoor cooking equipment there is.

me too lol.

Not good friend just learned this way there were no cad programs when i went to school this was the way we did things. as always i wish you good luck it just takes practice leather work isn't rocket science its leatherwork, cave men did it. Same thing with a compass or wing divider only faster, find the center and your good to go. Ps at my age i have lived completly through the computer era. Learned dos before computers had memories lol. many cad programs, inventory progams, spreadsheet programs till the cows come home in the end most are not easier and way not faster just an endless learning curve of obsolete programs and upgrades. Just my opinion based on personal experience of course. I have two daughters that draw digitaly, one does animation. she built this video thing, an animation that moves and talks to her voice and movements she uses the character on things like youtube. I'm not bashing modern technology by any means it has its place.

literaly 46 seconds to draw this including drawing the rectangle. As you can see if i add more lines ican get a rounder arc, make it longer or whatever. All with just a pencil and straight edge. i can scribe this directly on my leather and have it cut in a minute. dont even need a compass really.

lol I am a country boy too i was terrified driving a 1969 mercury cougar i could hardly keep up with traffic lol when interstate 80 turned into 5 lanes all going well over 90 mph. and nothing but buildings as far as the eye could see.

LOL yea except how to actually use you own brain.

Most wild meats are very lean and really good for you, but dry out quickly during cooking. A really good recipe to add some flavor and oils to the process i use on deer especially. Take your roo steak and tenderize it with a meat tenderizer/hammer looking thing and flatten it out good then roll it up with a piece of good smoked bacon, use toothpicks to keep it rolled up, the bacon should go length wise so it rolls around the outside as well as inside of the steak.. Flour ithe rolls then brown them off in a skillet. Place them in a baking pan and add a good mushroom soup, either canned or homemade and bake until tender. These are awesome make plenty of the gravy/soup and serve with some mashed spuds. Out side we make them in a dutch oven, brown them in the oven then add the soup. Speaking of dutch ovens do you have any? The top of the line for outdoor cooking, you can bake, fry, boil, roast, or about any other cooking process with one over an open fire.