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Very good stitching.

many times!! Right now, I'm struggling even to do any leather work. I have been on a slump since my daughter got sick a year ago. Fishing is helping a lot, getting out and getting some fresh air and exercise.

Beautiful pictures!!!! looks like I'll be taking my camera on our daily walk tomorrow.

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Making the Marines great again!!! You rock, my friend, god bless!!

I used to use a small set of needle-nose pliers and Locktite until I figured out they were much more expensive than rivets to install permanently. now I just use them for mock-up or adjustment purposes.

Dang man, that's a cool lil feller, nice price too.

Georgeous!!! but the first thing I noticed was the bottle sitting on a new paint job, LOL I hope it was the owner's and not the mechanic's. My dad would have killed me for doing that in the shop.

lol wrong car for dirt roads for sure.

If a car doesn't make you smile when you get in it and turn the key, then it's not the right car lol. Fun cars and really cool!! That suspension is what allowed them to go so fast. Standard suspension back then got spooky at high speeds. I had a '69 Merc Cougar, and you could feel the car start to float at 110 mph.

My dad said the same thing way back then. He said he should buy it and store it away. I'm sure I would have totaled it and died in the process at some point lol. My older brother bought the stock version Road Runner in Plum Crazy Purple, and Damn it was fast enough, when you punched it that hood scoop would come up and got your heart pumping real quick. I've seen the speedo pegged!

Very cool indeed, keep them alive!!

Damn good way to grow up if you ask me. My dad was a Dodge master mechanic, and he worked right across the street from my grade school, so I would go over every day and sweep the floor, and the owner would buy me a soda pop lol. One year 1970, he let my dad drive a brand new Roadrunner Super Bird up to some snowmobile races my brother was riding in. Man, as a kid, I thought I was the coolest person alive.

Man, there is nothing more fun than downshifting into a curve and hitting the gas on the way out in any of those little buggers, my brother had a karman Ghia that he let taught me some driving skills in lol. I had an MGB but the Spit was my dream car.

Oh yea you can certainly make alot of money if you are good and know the shortcuts, so could i, but at 14 lol it took a few months and a few tips from dad. He did give me the easier jobs. My first real test was a Triumph Spitfire that swallowed a valve. I'll never forget that, and I didn't beat the book lol.

then it could very well be the stretchy part of the hide around the legs and belly. Try using a half hide and cutting from front to back, you will get better results.

what part of the hide are you cutting the belt straps from? It looks like a softer part of the hide on that end. Not all parts of the hide are the same density or strength.

that is a nice design!! and great workman ship🙂

One of my first cars was a '62 Volvo, loved that butt ugly thing. Dad bought it for me for 50 bucks, I had to replace the timing chain before it would run.

I've never owned a new car, and I've never seen the need. My newest was a 2003 Pontiac minivan bought in 2012 still driving it today. Never taken a vehicle to a "mechanic" my dad started me out in his shop at the age of 14, wrenching at flat rate. lol. Meaning that if the books, Motors Manuals back in the day, say it takes an hour to fix, then you get paid for an hours work, no matter how long it actually takes you. Breaks were on your own dime!!

external oil coolers and thier hoses suck for just that reason. I constantly worry about the one on my burb.

cool site indeed. Where ya been?

A liner of some sort Use thicker leather for the front piece. Put your driver's license in the front, and your credit cards in the back. Turn the card over looser pants lol!!!

That's a nice design for sure, does it work as well with smaller pistols? I made an iwb for a G3C, and it didn't feel right to me, the barrel seemed too short to stay under my belt.

you should fit right in, you sound like many of us. There is a ton of stuff you can search on just about any leather topic. on tooling and stamps some styles, for example Sheridan style tooling uses stamps designed for that style; others are similar but not the same. What i did was study one style of tooling at a time, which was Stohlman first. most of the patterns tell you what stamps the pattern takes, so you can buy them one pattern at a time and have some luck in reproducing the intended pattern accurately, as well as learning how they work together and learning the style. AS for taking your time, that's the hard part to learn lol you just have to quit when you get in a bind and think about it. come back the next day with a new outlook. And tooling always looks better after it's finished, so don't give up until you have it stained, sealed, and buffed out It will surprise you. My old driller used to say I worked faster than I could think, lol, he would tell me to go get a cup of coffee and think about it, then come back and finish. Worked every time !! Life is good!!