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awesome indeed. will that mount fit a Garand?

lol ya gross huh! So have you?

How many of you have licked your leather edge while burnishing? No fibbin now. I have it works great.

has anyone mentioned that you don't really need a head knife for leather. It is a great tool but can easily be replaced with any quality cutting edge. For that matter many on the forum use the replaceable blade box cutter style knives.

This bad boy waddled by the other day. Mule deer ears are about 12" long for reference. the bases of his antlers are massive.

great picture!, i take a ton of critter pics also, last year had a set of hawks nest right across the street, the younguns would fly down into the street to get water. All spring you could watch them swoop on squirrels as they crossed the road.

frame it and use it for inspiration and as something to look back upon as you progress. Its really good.

beautiful!!

ok in a real world people are allowed to disagree not darn thing wrong with that.

i use windows 10 on my computer it has a program called "photos" what i do is open them with that hold my cursor over the pic and right click , brings up a menu, click on resize and another menu opens that allows me to reduce the size, i use "best for emails and messages". rename and save in a folder. Its super easy!

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i attached a pdf file also there is alot of free stuff here friend good luck! https://www.leathercraftlibrary.com/category/79/ebooks backpack.pdf

there are leather loops that you push down next to the hook that keeps them in place.

Thank you !!

I like that reminds me of a ball pouch a friend gave me for my cap n ball pistol.

Interesting but yea the velcro and snap thing has to change maybe a side release buckle or some such like the one at this site. Good luck I'm sure if anyone can make a decent one its you https://www.paracordplanet.com/metal-3-4-inch-side-release-buckles/?sku=BTZ-3001Z-HPBP-34-&msclkid=f397cd386d4e149c5c3e92d7ec1d3c00&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Bing Shopping&utm_term=4580359286202363&utm_content=P2 - All Products

Congrats man and good luck! I worked in the physical plant of a prison for 30 year and most of my inspiration in leather work came from the inmate leather shops. You do great work so getting business should be little problem. I would suggest you go for some college classes in business if possible, you have the expertise for the shop now get the expertise for the office.

I would probably glue up the holster and liner but leave the skirt part unglued until i had the holster to a point where i could get my correct placement and angle of the loop, then cut and form the loop then glue the liner and skirt then sew. Bianchi already had the pattern so he knew where to cut the loop we never saw his first try lol. I have made one myself, unlined so didn't have to think that hard.

I honestly didn't know there was such a thing! What makes it different?

Happy New year to all from the Great state of Wyoming!! May everyone be happy ,healthy , and safe.

Thats pretty much what i did except i did the border area of the name also. Thank you! The usual way i do roses is i dye them red using a couple of heavy coats then buff a bit soon after drying this takes a lot of the loose dye off the higher areas and creates some highlights as well i do it when i shene them the shene pulls some dye so i wipe again lightly remove some from the higher parts of the petals. I used acrylics for the flag and dye for the roses i have tried the antique on roses and didn't care much for the look lol.

So how would you go about staining cut lines like this? I use antique but i dont like the slightly dirty look, i use super shene but some of the antique still sticks in the tiny pores.

Thanks i may try these.

Very cool of all the weapons i collect i have only one slingshot that i made from deerhide in the david and goliath fashion. I had one of the surgical rubber types but i didn't like it as much. Those pouches are quite nice also they would work great for many things, would be an awesome addition to my black powder bag.

WOW !!!!!!!!!!! Beautiful work