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make the wallets without or dont sell its your option, your money, your life. But he will then buy them from someone else his option, his money, his life.

Stitching is part of the process its not separate in any way. Hand stitching when learned and done correctly isn't tedious or hard to do imo but it sure was before i knew how. In fact it makes a guy feel good to see the personal improvement just as any of the processes are plus there are some things that the average machine cant sew. If you plan on being competitive with Walmart's products neither will help you. If you plan on being competitive with other crafters with sewing machines then you will need a lot of practice some are veeery fast and time learning the machine is part of it also! If you plan on being competitive with hand stitching you still have to say its machine sewn, that's an apples and oranges argument. As with all tools there is cost in purchase, maintenance and time learning that needs to be included in the final cost of each product so you have to add that just as you would the extra time hand stitching. "I'm new to the entire concept of leatherworking and am looking into buying the basic equipment I need to get started." A leather sewing machine isn't basic equipment imo and i'm sorry to say but only friends or family would buy your first few saddles, folks who go out looking to buy them want guaranteed quality from well known makers.

if there was i think it would be on shelves everywhere and on every hide tanning blog ever written. sorry no majic solution i have ever heard of turn on some good tunes open a beer and get to work i have found a lot of needless work goes into the process while the hide is still to wet for the breaking. If you do find one though let me know i have three elk hides and two deer in the salt right now.

why would you want to? it would make it uncomfortable imo our bods aren't perfect in shape so the leather conforms instead.

thanks it will out last the phone for sure.

heres how i get around the belt no belt problem. The back flap will stick in your waistband or even your pocket, the snap allows you to take it off or put it on without taking off your belt too. Use two layers on the flap to make it stiff.

yes sir that is really nice! I want one now.

Any person with a functioning brain cell would realize that is free and very good advertising for them. i wouldn't call that brain fart "evolving" lol.

really nice !!

nice indeed!!!

be sure you make it so you can throw the tote and keep the pistol. Make the pocket on the outside and to the body for what ever hand your customer needs. My daughter bought a cc purse but had no idea how they work. She had no idea that they are made so you can throw the purse or hand it over to distract while pulling the iron. And as said really good straps.

i have a belt that was made longer by slicing the one piece down the center about two inches and skived to 0 then skiving the other piece on both sides again to 0 to create a tapered tongue. the tongue was glued inside the split and sewn.

Awesome bunch of info! thank you once again.

Thank you Toxo! i will do the dirty work of searching so you can get on with your work. The info you posted was enough for me to get going..

Those are really nice, looks like you have alot more to make lol.

Nice work IMO. Where did you get the steel? what type?

here is some of our fall colors, they don't last long and ended about three weeks ago, there is snow on the ground now lol. they make a beautiful desktop picture.

i think your stitch line is pretty good, if you straighten the edge it will be less noticeable but you see more of the mistakes that others wont notice.

cant you glue it, form it , then punch the stitch lines?

Darn nice job!

Good for alot of things. those are really nice looking. Cheap things do have their place unfortunately its the landfill and just more pollution in the end.

He's sayin now fetch me some warm milk.

very beautiful Ferg, we have alot of deer in our little town we feed also, but its illegal so we have to sneak it lol. Just got back from elk hunting trip, heres a bit of color from Wyoming

Thank you yea i may even go with a thicker piece on back in addition. thank you.

English bridal straps? sorry i had to laugh the term sounds kind of.......... didn't know English brides needed straps. Beautiful work friend!!!