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great looking tooling!!!!

it would be gone by now! good luck friend!!

oh yea now your talkin!!

I used to feed my dogs rawhide chews they aren't unsafe to eat unless they plug them up, some are bleached with nasty stuff however. my male would unravel them and swallow them lol they don't digest so came out looking the same!! we switched to carrots believe it or not our three bullies love carrots. organic or not lol. i do have some truly organic hide, we tanned it our selves! brain tanned wild elk and deer. sustainably sourced and ethically harvested. need any more buzz words lol.

ok organic milk is processed just the same as non organic milk. organic beef is processed exactly the same as non organic beef. hides from these organic cows are processed exactly the same as non organic hides are, with the same chemicals. get it? so that being said then veg tan is about as close as your going to get. to "organic" leather. if you buy and pay more for organic leather than regular you are buying a pig in a poke.

Good luck to you and i am impressed by your willingness to look out for others in such a way. one would assume that but i highly doubt it. 1. most have them made by a third party. 2. they just don't care its not an issue people don't eat shoes so they don't need to be organic. Now you need to think about the conditioners polishes and other nasty things your going to smear on them lol.

sweeet indeed!

I don't enable people to be scared of their own shadow, its become the norm since the phony pandemic. I try and show them there is still some common sense in the world. how many billions of shoes have been made in the history of the world with how many leathers, plastics and "man made materials"? how many children have you ever heard have died from chewing on them? do the math. I've raised six kids they don't eat their shoes! some worries are just stupid. sorry.

simply beautiful!! both are very nice.

those are really nice!!

i would worry about the sugar in their processed foods first, its the main factor attributed to all the health related diseases they will endure for life. And it is a toxin they do put in their mouths and LOVE to eat. Did you know it is in infant formulas at twice the amount as in soda pop in some brands.

yup what they said, i will add your forming is great!!!! tape something to your pistol from the back sight to the front sight so a channel is created when you mold it. I usually use bamboo skewer sticks or a thin strip of leather about the same size as the front sight.

beautiful work on both !!! That spalted Maple looks great imo.

i doubt you can find any leather different than what toddler shoes are already made out of. I don't think its a worry. As a father ,grandfather would worry more about them eating the stuff off them they step in.

i've never used the info but i have read it and know it is very good he is a master craftsman. Thank JlSleather for it. Holster_Theory.pdf

some more IWBa-1.pdf

dont know if this will work but here is Jls info.PancakeLayout.pdf

same to you Frodo have a great day.

not here but the cc purses are lol.

this thread has it i think.

did you search the site? it is probably still here.

Tim you are really good that is some exquisite tooling. How many years have you been working leather? i will never live long enough to get that good.

So i go to a leather shop and instead of picking up the leather and actually looking at it, feeling it, smelling it, i use an app? damn what if you forget to take it along? What is a defect exactly in your mind? i agree you need first hand info. start at at a tannery, take photos as they show you what your looking at, become educated yourself.

Merry Christmas !!!

I'm gonna put another, earn your own masters, do the work your self so you actually know what your talking about when your done.