maddhatter

GAH !! another excellent top hat !!!!!!!!!!! sweeeeeeeeettttttttttt!!!!!!!!! you all are making me drool with these hats they are most excellent in more words than i can think of, keep up the excellent work, i'm hoping one day i'll be able to make such works as these, until then i'll keep drooling at the masters at hand. maddhatter

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTT !!!!!!!!!! love the hat, made me drool just looking at it, most excellent work, may i also inquire about the pattern as well when you have the time please, would love to tackle some thing like this and a tophat would be most excellent of choice. you do awesome work, makes me not want to set my tools down thanks much for showing this off, you inspire me to become a better leathermen and hopefully someday i will maddhatter

would love to learn how to make these, i have a few friends that have asked me about them, and i don't have the foggiest idea of where to start, how do you seal the bottle, what do you seal it with, i'm seeing bee's wax but wouldnt that come off, how would this work with holding booze or wine ?? any danger of it leaking after sealed, i got the idea of how to shape it, do you sew the pieces together first then soak the leather for until saturated and fill with said item for streching ?? after drying pour in the bees wax ??? roll around and then expell excess ?? any and all info would be great on this subject. thanks much, stan

I don't know any thing about saddles, sorry, but the tooling work i like, you did a real great job, you should be proud of what you did. maddhatter

I don't have a makers mark yet still working on that, but i do use a tandy stamp that says handcrafted by and then you put your name in the slot, i know cheesy, but it works for me atm, and i put my stamp on the inside flap of the purse, wallet, coin purse or what ever item im making at the time, and i've had no complaints about it there most people say ( oh cool you put your mark on it) (shrug) i say if your proud of the item you've made then put your mark on it just put it where it looks good and is fitting to the item. maddhatter

add a zip to it, don't have a pattern for the zip but i do have a set of instructions that might give ya an idea of how to put one in.

hey bob i might have some thing that will work for ya, check it out an let me know if this is what your looking for i have a few more patterns in my books of different sorts of wallets. stan

all i can say is SWEET!!!!!!! excellent work love the frogs and leaves the whole thing pops !!! or hops eighter way its SWEET!!! keep up the excellent work. maddhatter

I just sent off a custom order for a coin purse to austraila the other day, the insurance for it was 38.95. i used priority flat rate box and a declare slip, so im hoping it gets to my customer

Thanks much moon.

great coloring, i like how looks, nice job maddhatter

hey all, did my first lined wallet with an oak leaves and acorn design with a celtic design on the front and a braided boarder finish, i know i still need work on the celtic lines design but let me know what ya all think. mad

not my print but is still a good one that i use from time to time, hope it helps

thanks tom, yeah i know i still need work, but with every thing it all comes with time and practice, which i'm working on doing with reading every thing i can get my hands on, thanks for the input hope my next piece is better maddhatter

thanks for the feed back on the cuff wildrose, yeah i know my beveling sucks big time as well as my basketweave, but with the help from this site i've been able to find out what and how to change my mistakes and how to hold the tools in the right postion to get the walking effect down, there was a great video on walking bevelers that helped out alot, so i can only hope to inprove greatly, thank you again for the feed back i'll post more when complete. maddhatter

hey all figured i'd just post another one of the items that i make let me know what you think about it what i need to emprove, i know my basketweave sucks i have not done it in along time i know its all whacked (cackle) maddhatter.

i'm new to the site and i wanted to thank you all for all the great information that you have posted really helps a want to be better leathercrafter out, so i've seen alot of your work figured i would show you a piece of mine and see what you all have to say, belive me you wont hurt my feelings i've been told i don't have any thanks much for letting me post and being apart of a great site. maddhatter .

sweet seat ! wish i was that good i'd redo the seat on my trike (chuckle) excellent job ! you will get the customers forsure maddhatter.......

excellent work! love the designs