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Man, that must suck having the knowledge right there and not being able to get to it. With your natural talent, your work could get much more refined easily.. Keep up the good work!!

yup I ve done much harder work. Like getting it in the truck this year lol.

I would try spraying it with Febreze, then if that didn't work, maybe a cold or slightly warm tumble in the dryer with a dryer sheet or two.

I think the whiskey glasses were lol. Nothing western in Hollywood is real even now, but at least then they had some morality and sense of right vs wrong. Every show had a lesson and positive story line. I'll take Gunsmoke over modern "entertainment" any day. I think Matt was kissed only once in the whole series, and they didn't even have to show Miss Kitty's boobs to get the message across that she was a woman.

Tandy, in thier Library. https://tandyleather.com/blogs/leathercraft-library

"Figure Carving" by AL Stohlman would give you that info for adding the shading. I see Tandy is sold out on that book; however they have "How to carve Leather" which also shows the process Al used. I like that sheath BTW, very well done imo.

Thank you!! oh yea they were! A nice homemade chokecherry/service berry wine accompanied it. I also used a bit to create the au jus with some black pepper for a bit of spice. Then I sauted some onions until brown and made country gravy and smashed taters, with a light salad. Hoping you are doing as well, are you going to plant a garden this year? Some good spring veggies?

My son is doing the tanning, its very much like brain tanning but without the brains and makes the same type of leather. I'm trying something diferent on the fore legs, i want to keep the hair on so am using a diferent method. The legs have short hair and i want to try it on a holster or two. And yes he works his butt off during the softening process.

practice makes perfect!! Good job and noticeable improvement imo.

very cool!!!! you give me inspiration as well as others on the site I'm sure. Much more creative than a cut-and-paste laser image IMO. My old art teacher would say. Put some shadow texture in to ground your cannon and building a bit.

Interesting indeed. Maybe throw some tin in with it; bronze might turn better on the lathe.

Man that sounds good , Here is what i made the wife for our 45th anniversary last night. fresh Spike Elk Backstrap. Lovingly taken by my son in a canyon so steep and full of brush a horse cant even get close. We had to quarter and pack out the meat on foot, only took about 10 hours or so from the first shot to getting him in the truck, i carried these out in my pack. while also carrying a quarter. Two weeks of hard hunting and we have two wonderful elk to butcher. BTW beef steaks of half this quality are about 20 bucks a pound here in the store. LOl with two Elk ima gonna have all these, except the night light, exchanging it for some nice handmade leather.

heck yeah thats cool. did you try using just a file at slow speed? I do brass but havent tried copper.

its called a ring clamp because the metal ring around it holds it together and makes it work, not because you use it to hold rings necessarily.

when sewing stick your needle about halfway through the hole and wiggle it up, down, and sideways to stretch the hole a bit it will close back up and you can get your thread through easier. The secret to hand stitching made easy.

nope, most of the fit comes from the cylinder and the sides. once wet formed and dried it will fit like a glove. Post us some pics !! and have fun with it.

I had a black lab named Abby. We got her from the pound, and she was a full lab. When I went to name her, I looked up dog names on the net, and Abby, if I remember, was the first name or really close to it lol. She was a wonderful dog and a good bird hunter except for one thing. She would chase the flying birds and ignore the ones we shot lol.

your story !! lol

use a thin piece of wood or something to tape from the front sight when wet forming your holster to the back sight or your holster will develop a hump, and your front sight will drag on the holster. Post pics

it was 27 last night, with snow in the high country. I'm going hunting today. Be back soon lol. You take care, my friend, and say hi to your pop for me.

very cool reason,, Good luck

you put those in magazines clips are usually for rifle bullets lol. M1 Garands for one. I burnish em till thier slick myself, or maybe I slick 'em down until they are burnished yea that's it. I'm going with slicking them until burnished.

that is gonna be nice!!

That's a nice first holster!!! you should be proud of that. All I use is NFO and a good outdoor type waterproofing and sealer for leather products, Fiebings golden mink oil, with nothing applied inside to attract dust or dirt, use the best leather, and you don't need it. Apply the nfo first to the outside, then the waterproofing sealer. It gives a very natural hand rubbed finish. An unlined holster is just as correct as a lined holster, probably more so in a slim jim, as they are a period type piece usually for black powder.

me too, i make them to hold the magazine and match the holster. Easy and quick to make and from scrap pieces usually.