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it definitely a show stopper it will be hard for folks not touch it , its awesome.

lol I have a very small 22 i carry in my pack when out in the woods. I 've always called it my bear gun when someone asks me why i call it that its too small to shoot a bear with i say " you don't have to outrun the bear you just have to outrun your whoever is with you". That's why the experts say you never go in the woods by yourself lol

One method i use is to pick and choose parts of several pattern designs to make my own new design. Take a leaf from one pattern then the flower from another until you have something that fits. I scan and print the different designs then cut out whatever pieces i want and position them into my new design then rescan it to make the new design tracing copy.

very nice i like how you used that buckle set and the contrasting colors . what leather did you use?

good women are hard to catch the best women are even harder, good luck to you and i hope you have a very hard time of it. eat your Wheaties and put on your sneakers lol.

That is one nice piece of work!!!!

I'm drooling!! but steel toed shoes for leather work ? LOL that thing rocks!!!!

LOL they should come with a diploma, signed by Rube Goldberg. Using chisels to pre-punch so you don't have to use a hand awl to do the work while hand sewing wouldn't be any different would it? The way i understand the definition of machines or tools is that they need to do the job faster and easier than without the tool while still giving equal or even better results. In this case , my parameters, faster and easier than hand sewing with equal results of any other machine doing the same chore.

that is a good idea indeed, there are always work arounds to problems and this is one of them.

lol mine they call them bunsen burners over here, had denatured alcohol, dropped it on my bedroom rug, you cant see alcohol flames just a brown burn spot on the rug getting bigger and bigger. Got my butt tanned real good for that one.

you should read up on how dangerous refined sugar really is instead, it literally kills thousands of people daily. but it tastes so yummy and is so addicting no one cares. People feed it to their kids from birth unknowingly and ignorantly creating a life long addiction to one of the greatest health problems currently on earth.

i have to laugh when i remember those chemistry sets that were sold back in the day for kids Christmas. They had all the goodies plus a Bunsen burner. Todays parents would literally freak out, all my dad told me was don't eat anything and don't burn the house down.

air brushed white I'm not to good at adding the shading and lines so it will probably be repainted a few dozen times lol. He plays different video games and does a running commentary on them his name on you tube is Dr.Z Z is for zombie. thank you it took some time. lol first i did a paper Mache mask of his whole head for the pattern then a plaster of Paris mold of his face then the cast of his face so i could form it to his facial features, it fits him like a glove lol.

thanks!!!

just like these https://www.amazon.com/Fun-Express-Metal-Bracelet-Assortment/dp/B002SPU2YY

just my old prison humor showing thru. sorry.

the kind you get when you finally OD

i doubt highly that your nail files will punch through leather as easily as the plastic they came with at least the ones over here wouldn't they have a very blunt point unlike a knife.

use a welt in it. sew in a small thickness of leather into the bottom about 3/8ths" wide so the tips will hit that instead of the bottom of the roll.

Dang I haven't tried them yet that will be todays tinker lol.

definitely a beautiful job of it.

yes it is and a model 1891 Argentine Mauser. Gotta love old iron!!!!!

what i did was use your pattern in conjunction with the gi pattern which i did trace from a flat photo on my monitor (yup) to get my pieces . I do know the original was for a scope and the history of it but i built this for iron sights and it is much different in how it fits. My pattern has the cheek piece higher on the stock , like yours, and is also thinner then the original. I also used your idea of formed leather inside. I used the gi shape but it isn't the same at all it is just looks similar and seems a good idea so the pads can be adjusted for thickness. i also lengthened it so it could use the sling loop to hold the rest in place, the originals were screwed to the butt. In essence it only resembles the GI model. But tracing an outline from a monitor only gives you a picture , no actual dimensions so that was the hard part actually getting the thing the right size and in the right place.

yup did just that.

oh heck yea!! very nice