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Josh lookin good their pard keep up the great work Tim

ok guys and gal heres my tool rack gonna be doinga nothing one soon but this one does the trick right now

Kevin great stuff ya sent me the quality of the exotic leather ya sent is wonderful Thank you ill be getting more asap LOL Cowboy316

Yotebuster you nailed it pard thats excellent if ya dont mind im gonna put in a folder for later use LOL Cowboy316

DC very slick setups love the look of the exotics and the veg taned together im waiting on some samples of different exotics not sure how im gonna like workin with it but ill see what i can do LOL Cowboy316

Noah when im burnishing edges i use a bar of glyercin soap after i dampen it a bit i lightly rub the edge with the gylercin soap and use denim to burnish it works pretty slick Cowboy316

Scissors very cute perfect look for a little girl looks great keep it up Cowboy316

thank you Panther ill have to try to pick some up and do that i love the look of it Cowboy316

Panther tell me bout the tool you put the handle and if you have a pic of it before the leather handle is formed on it that would be cool i love the look of it and wanna make one Cowboy316

2 more pics beveling all done and i came to the conclusion i need a bigger backgrounder so ill make one tonight anf the second pic is of the partial pear shading enjoy Cowboy316

hey guys and gals got to playing tonight with a tracing of a wild iris thinking maybe i could use it for a bible cover some day i had some scrap skirting leather so i went to work LOL well here are 2 pics while i was working after the carving and after partial beveling and backgrounding enjoy and feel free to hen peck it Cowboy316

ya Greg i was lookin at what tools they got liked what i sawe but im like you out of my league but maybe if i get this bible cover sold i can invest in some Tim

Greg never a problem for a fellow friend in the leather craft Tim

gcollins got to springfield leather company there a full web site that is Kevins store Cowboy316

ponygirl for a good basket stamp tutorial look up grey ghost graphics they have a tutorial that give ya a basic run down on the lay out and the process of the basic basket stamp Cowboy316

Kevin very nice oak leaves i love to carve them my next wallet i think is gonna have oak leaves very nice again keep up the faboulas work Cowboy316

Bear man very nice lookin wallet love the way oak leaves carve no matter what your carving them in i just wish i could carve half that good but i dont have the time nor the cash to be doing it all the time but oh well ill keep carving tho LOL Cowboy316

hey guys and gals i was bored the other night and thinking bout cheap easy ways to color leather and i thought to myself Self what would cherry cool aide do to leather so i put a packet into bout a 1/4 cup of warm water and the submerged a tooled scrap in it for a couple hours here are the pics right after it came out of the cool aide and the after 2 coats of neats foot oil and the 2 coats of tan coat

all i can say pard it SNAZZY would have never thought to use an old railroad spike ive got a 5 gallon bucket of them in my shop now i know what to do with them LOL thanks for sharing Cowboy316

Howard very cool knife work ive been playing with it too but with not much luck but oh well it takes practice Bear man i see you over in the cas city forum too your work is way cool Cowboy316

heres a pic of a case i made that with fit the black berry curve phone i can send a copy of the template if wanted let me know Cowboy316 ps sorry it looks beat up but it was scrap so i made it look old and beat up LOL

Kevin thank you for the post i sent ya and email so let me know what we can work out Cowboy316

hey there Mark looks like you have it nailed down i like the look of the corners im gonna have to get me some scrap and do some piddeling with my rope stamp i wanna do a rope border on my next bible cover so i better get practicing LOL good job Cowboy316

hey guys and gals heres a knife i got at walmart on clearance for 7 bucks i should have bought all 12 they had but i didnt like the sheath so i made my own drew out the carving pattern and then dyed it a mahogany color and this is what i came up with enjoy Cowboy316

thanks guys for all the help i got a good idea of what im gonna do know ill be posting pics of the rack when i get it done in the next few days Cowboy316