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Thank you, He has some good stuff. Made a holster yesterday. It is the Hand of G-d from the movie 3:10 to Yuma. The Whil Ghormley pattern is fun, except for sewing the toe piece. Followed the instructions except for color and a few different stamps .

Yes the acorn pattern was in the pack, had to convert it from the sling without the thumbhole and fill in where he had a place for initials. He has very nice patterns and usually includes various tooling patterns to go with it. Will post when done.

Thank you, the rifle sling is a Don Gonzalez pattern. Thank you Gini is excited for me to finish the other one now.

Thought it might be easier to combine projects into one post. The leather work area we are setting up a tooling only area, I was having problems with glue and dye marks. Now they will be separate. This is what hopefully is going to work for me from learning. Most important things are the lighting which can be raised and lowered, and the body position for longer tooling. This works for me, but we all have different likes and wants. Wanted to try a rifle sling with oak and acorns. Working on a pair of Birkenstocks for Gini, she loves sunflowers. The inside is lined with milled veg-tan. It makes it nice and soft on the foot. First real time working with it.

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That sounds good, they are pretty also. The acorns and oak leaves. For most of it Clay Miller's figure carving set. They are copies of the original Craftool stamps that have been discontinued. Then some Barry King. Clay's are worth it if you plan on doing a lot of figure carving. I used a large variety of them, some for only a few places.

Thank you, 16 hour in the belt. Thank you, agreed. Only have done stamped before this. Wanting to try floral also. Thank you, easier for me than floral since my drawing skills are lacking. Thank you, his boos will keep you humble. Thank you, many hour pounding leather. Thank you

Wanted to try figure carving a belt. Chose a challenging one. My eyes may have been bigger than my stomach. It is an Al Stohlman pattern.

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Thank you. The Mill because it challenged my skills and learned more. Thank you, good question AIZilla mentioned undershot wheel. Possible but the wheel design for the water pockets is angle for a top fill. The trough coming from the right is possible. Yet doesn't fit with the water flow. Could be artistic error I have photographed many mills in the South East. Thank you

Thank you,,had some great teachers. Thank you Finished the briefcase today, learned a lot from it.

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Thank you The sides are finished. Due to size only posting 1 photo of the inside, both are the same.

Thank you, me too. Thank you, this one is very simple. The handles were done first, Gini told me no purchasing hardware! Finished the Mill side today. Two days and 20 hours in the panel. Each one of the field stones had to be done one at a time with a tiny spoon.

Thanks This was one days work, marking the leather, cutting and some tooling. This is the largest and most detailed piece I have attempted.

From the movie Young Frankenstein, that is the fun. See something and think I could do it this way and try new things. I totally get it. Used my leather room for storage almost a year. Finally had to move things around to work. That Juki looks good.

Thank you It was to help preserve the bridges so they lasted longer. Back in the day not too long ago they rolled the snow to pack it and didn't plow. My ex father in law talked about it in Vermont back in the early 1900's. I have seen photos of it pretty wild horse drawn.

Agreed I am humbled, thank you. If you have facetime we could go over some of the ways. I am retired so trying to keep busy.

Thought it would be nice to share the bridge photo I took that this bridge reminds me of. I loved BW because it distills the photo down to the subject without the intrusion of color. It is one of the reasons my preference is natural leather and antique instead of painting. Thank you it was fun playing with different stamps. Thank you, agreed the artist rendered the pattern extremely well.

I don't teach for pay, but I am willing to help if you have facetime or similar. Don Gonzalez has a youtube channel, he has good info on floral. Some are 3 or so years old. Jim Linnell has a site plus video classes you can buy and download to watch over again no time limit. He has lots of stuff from starting to advanced. If you are interested in people Annie Libertini has some great classes on it. Those are also on Jim's site. Aeron Heizer has a channel (Makers Leather Supply). I am not selling, still learning and pushing.

Thank you Thank you, I am excited for this one as it has special meaning to me. This was the easy side, but the other has meaning and will pair well. Possible, checked out my photo and they are different. Thank you. I seem to have clicked with figure carving. I like western and still do it, but I can't draw so it limits my ability. With figure all that is needed is a photo. Thank you. If you want I can share classes and places that have helped me.

Started work on a simple briefcase for myself. Thought it would be fun to share the journey. As a Vermonter (who moved) my love for covered bridges grew from a young age. It was so much fun photographing the bridges in different seasons. This particular tooling bears a striking resemblance to a bridge close to my house, it is uncanny, Started this panel last night at 8 pm thinking it would be done by 1 am. I was wrong, the border was being done as the kids were getting on the bus. This led to a brain fart, the bushes on the left took a quick look at the pattern and carved the wrong side of the line! My lesson was learned, not to start something at night.