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Dang those are nice!!

Where i hunt the pine beetle kill is so bad the deadfall is six and seven feet high. The critters have all had to change their trails and habits, they cant even get through it. AND get this, a bit more to think about on the fire problem. yes more environmental logic. Traditionally and historically folks used to camp near the creeks and rivers, now called riparian areas, why? because it was moist and fires could be more easily controlled very easy to understand even to people thousands of years ago with no education. Now thanks to idiots with degrees it is illegal to camp within 100 feet of riparian areas because you may damage the fauna. So guess where people camp??? In the dry brushy areas or trees where a fire is 1000 times more likely to catch the place on fire than the moist riparian areas. Its a shame!

wonderful work Stewart!! painting glass is hard to do.

great practice piece, i have done stuff like that that, then after the practice i have used the leather again to make rough out sheathes for some of my old knives. they don't care if a ruined picture or a bunch of doodles are on the inside.

he is a dandy! check around your foundation for any holes he can get in.

Both are really nice tooling.

Sadly, in the US, the environmentalists have gotten so many places designated wilderness that the roads which were originally cut for fighting wildfires have been closed off. Yea firefighters cant drive in either how is that for environmental logic? Additionally the amount of deadfall due to the Pine Beatle years ago doesn't allow for the firefighters an easy way out if trouble happens so it to dangerous to fight, most of the time they can only stage and watch it burn. The Mullen fire here a couple years ago was that way, all they could do was fight a few places where they had access and save a few cabins, for months they just sat at the staging area watching the planes try. In addition almost the whole states funding was spent doing nothing because they couldn't do anything. Its a shame.

very cool work !

i like those that one on the bottom would make a nice border. i need more stamps or more time or something lol.

its how you use the beveler, just at the point where the two camo stamp impressions come together at the vee, on this you can see i used a cross hatch beveler to make the impression

is it a stamp you made from the picture or a series of stamps, freehand work????

very cool coaster!! i made a water hose hanger for the front yard with pair of hames.

yup the width, in looking at mine i just realize the width of the lay out lines is about equal to the width of the camo tool, i will try a few later and see if there is a correlation that would make sense. I just went with what seemed right I too would like to know a secret tip to make it easier to plan.

welcome!!

yea I think i posted this.

cool indeed tell us how you made the wonderful view.

thank you for the compliment, leather work like art has many genre's and its always fun to try something new. you never really know how its going to look until its completely done.

many thanks, that makes me think i wonder if a good hard wood like oak could be useful as a stamp

Thanks haha, i hope i' inspire if not i have some fishing pictures i could post

lol i don't think he has to worry very much. thank you

LOL I love it , very cool work!!

Thanks thank you The deer was drawn by my daughter and myself, she designed it and then i tweaked it a bit. oh heck yea, its going Carp hunting in a couple days lol. thanks. Thank you.

thanks Home made stamp too just an old bolt. thank you!

All are very nice , a holster for every occasion !

those are great!!!