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LOL do what doctors do, refer them to a specialist when you get tired of their crap.

did you put a welt in it to protect the stitching? Its a pretty piece of work friend!!

Thank you I'll need it!

Thanks for the help! yea some of the leather may be good, but some is mouse ate so parts would have to be replaced. I wont rebuild it if the tree is no good but I still might disassemble it to see how it goes together. Lived my whole life in Wyoming 5th generation, my mom and dad both grew up on ranches but I didn't and have ridden some but not had a lot of saddle time lol.

Mornin and welcome!

I have this old saddle that the leather is totally ruined my question is can the tree be reused if it is still in decent shape? It may be a future project if I can. If I can disassemble it seems I would learn a lot by studying its construction and using the parts as patterns.

We live in truly sad times these days when our young people are so dumbed down by technology, our crap educational system and our disposable lifestyle. that they cant determine what spending a dollar, on quality products , means or how hard it was to make it.

I do the top piece first, then clamp my pieces together and do the first one through both pieces or all three if its a holster or sheath then I have a starting point for lining up the chisel holes, then I can do the two other pieces and I can do them from the rough side so all the holes are at the correct angle. Then I use some small brass nails and put one every inch or two through the holes to line them up when gluing the pieces together to align them. After that I remove the nails go through them with an awl then sew em up. I do mostly holsters and sheaths in heavy weight leathers. if its thin leather I glue and do both sides at once.

yes a website is much more legit, I've never looked on etsy for products let alone buy any from the site nor do I plan to.

Just went duh to myself while driving to the store, remove the slide lay it on top of a ruler easy peasy. Give them the measurements in mm as well as inches.

I like that!

lol yea it wasn't a uniform change in width from what i'm reading so getting a serial number or year isn't going to do it. From what I have found the change was made in the hd models first then in the other models later as they were having problems with the narrower versions. Also from what I have read online sig isn't very good at answering that question. As far as customers, I haven't got a clue except to tell them there are two different widths, they may have to learn how to read a ruler its an 1/8" inch difference so they shouldn't need a caliper or mic for that. I guess they could use a fabric tape and measure circumference also. I'll look for more info.

yea all im seeing is varations in grips, finish, sights, and what the slides or frames are made out of, all seem to measure 1.1" width, I don't even find any with acc, rails just the one model with the laser sights. yup found some more info two slide widths 11/16 or 13/16 seems they first used the thicker slides on the hd but now use it on other variations as well, seems to be a lot of trouble for the kydex holster crew also. I see some holster makers are asking basically which slide thick or thin, don't know how you could walk them through it any other way without measuring tools.

Most of the sig variations are in grips finish sights etc, the biggest difference in the frame or slide, for holster fit, I would think is if it is made with an accessory rail or not. Hope that helps I will keep looking through some of my books for barrels lengths and such. I see one built in 2010 that had a tactical laser mounted in front of the finger guard, most barrels are 2.7 or 3" so no biggie there.

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great first try for sure, What I would try and do is fill the area more by gradually widening the stem and leaves more at the upper ends to fill the area more on the inside and outside of the design and create more variation in the width of the stems themselves. It would also help you in your effort to fit the design to the shape. Floral is hard to do for me as well.

Yea man, have one I built myself from an 80% lower, legal for antelope and deer out here. But we need long range scopes lol good to 600.

ASk the local ranches if they have any privately processed for personal use and where. Here in Wyoming I would go to a local wild meat processor as they do anything people bring in, don't know if Texas has those here they are also part of the local taxidermy.

Would love to go pig hunting we don't have them here, it would sure help my bacon and sausage costs lol, that is one thing I have to buy at the store pork for making my bacon and sausage. LOL my dog, Sissy, doesn't get off her leash much but she sure can bark a lot didn't know that about Beagles and the lady at the pound forgot to mention it, she will even bark at her own echo.

you have good points about the thickness and I agree to a point, these belts also deal with heat and sweat as well as the pressure of the work , we both know what heat and water will do to leather they also have to do this work for years not just one time. BUT the biggest thing they do is keep you safe and free of injury, they are safety equipment bottom line. But here ya go a belt made for me that didn't last a year its 3mm what you wanted to see on your video it lost 1/2" in width in just a few months doing nothing but holding up my pants and being pushed from the inside out. To me if a customer with a 60" waist wanted a 1/2" thick belt I would make it simply for the safety factor and unknowns about just how extreme this person would be on it, that's one big dude.

Also prevents the belt stretching out of shape during the lifetime of the belt, folks want these things to last years and look badass at the same time, wimpy belts just aren't badass looking lol. But if I'm trusting my health and safety to this thing I would opt for thicker , to a point, any day.

Beautiful work!!!! I don't see a thing wrong with it.

Thanks yea hunting has always been about family it is still a way of life for us "hillbillies"here in Wyoming we can still manage to live primarily on wild life, fish and a big garden, with most of our sustenance coming from the land not the store. That's the recipe I use for my rattlesnake skins I might try that on some rabbit first, oh yea we raise rabbits too lol much better than chicken. By the way love your dog ,we have a Beagle we rescued from the pound looks just like yours in the face.

Four, me ,my son, and two of my daughters! two cows two spikes and yes all of the above. I make and smoke my own sausage, corned elk, pastrami and some jerky, I usually give my hides to the vfw but am thinking next year possibly making rawhide for my self as I just priced elk rawhide, seems I give away a couple grand every year just in deer and elk. Yea I think I've found the answer for me in the federal trade commission rules, bottom line its all about pleasing big brother no matter what a person or their patrons feel is right, if you make the whole product from basic raw materials using hand tools then its handmade, such as your awesome baby grand, if you hang a store bought buckle for example then it isn't completely handmade anymore. I think for now its best not to use the term in any advertising and let the consumers know what parts you have done by hand if you feel the need as most here have said.

I found this,it is from the FTC and is mentioned in jewelry making sites I would suspect they would also apply to leatherwork if the subject came about. 23.3 Misuse of the Terms “hand-made,” “hand-polished,” etc. (a) It is unfair or deceptive to represent, directly or by implication, that any industry product is handmade or hand-wrought unless the entire shaping and forming of such product from raw materials and its finishing and decoration were accomplished by hand labor and manually-controlled methods which permit the maker to control and vary the construction, shape, design, and finish of each part of each individual product. Note to paragraph (a): As used herein, “raw materials” include bulk sheet, strip, wire, and similar items that have not been cut, shaped, or formed into jewelry parts, semifinished parts, or blanks. (b) It is unfair or deceptive to represent, directly or by implication, that any industry product is handforged, hand-engraved, hand-finished, or hand-polished, or has been otherwise hand-processed, unless the operation described was accomplished by hand labor and manually-controlled methods which permit the maker to control and vary the type, amount, and effect of such operation on each part of each individual product. Here is the section on leather https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=da0fff93d248d84476b245ccfa2ce5bc&rgn=div5&view=text&node=16%3A1.0.1.2.14&idno=16