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The coal miner is finished, this piece has meaning to the family as they have worked in the coal industry.

Working on a piece 14" x 10.5" for the wall. Gini's father went down in the mines as an engineer and a cousin retired from the mines -strip. It is a big thing around here. This is an older generation with the carbide lamps. Finding my passion, with leather tooling. A fun trading card

So cool

Some trading cards and a swivel knife wrap.

Anthony Hopkins is such a good actor, I can still hear "Clarice". A 2 1/4 x 3 inch trading card using the small pieces. A 2.5 x 4 inch trading card from a Rex Goulet pattern.

Thank you for the detailed response, I messed up when my resist spray was almost empty and tried to squeeze this one out. The antique looked muddy to me in the background, chalk it up to learning. Your points are valid and appreciated. His couch had better be commfortable, it's going to take a while. I do overthink sometimes yet being critical of one work helps me push forard. The thoughts of others help help with different perspectives. My Precious trading card this morning.

Testing out my new readers, on a fun piston caricature. I am not old enough yet, though they made it much better.

I was looking at the piece and something was gnawin at me about it, It didn't look right, decided to try something that would ruin it or make it look better, used die to try it over the finish coat. It is blotchy and buffed out no coat over top again. Did I mess up?

The Cowboy helped me learn shading better, it was also fun.

In the short rows now.

Did some more today.

Started a cowboy tooling, this is the most detailed skull to date. And it is a challenge.

This was a fun challenge, now back to Al Shelton's piece.

Not really, if you went with the concho one and had multile holes on the inside part for popular sizes, would be a smidge of a gamble. Also same if using a buckle.

Made a new trading card

Nice and clean, like the stitching really adds to it.

Todays work.

Was able to work on the Al Shelton piece some more after dark. It is a large piece for me and is going to take a while.

Forgot could do a ranger belt style buckle set-up, I want to try this.

Thank you, I use a soft tape to measure the circumference of it and and some if using a concho, on my first one made a connector strap for the back to fit it. This way it will fit different hats with a new backstrap. On the one with the concho you could make some extra hole on the bottom piece for adjustment. For fit try to make it snug so it stays on the hat, be careful if to snug it will make the hat tight, could use a dab of hot glue for added security or a stitch. For me being able to remove it easily for cleaning or changing bands cause I made a different one. Added photos to show, hope this helps.

Had a little spare time tonight, working on tiny tooling and did a little petal lifting.

A brooch