Chaps measuring belt

[Mulesaw]

I had made a pair of chaps for one of Gustavs friends. I had been asked to make them exactly the same size, so I did.. 
The first time he tried them on he realized they were too small around the waist, and the legs should have been 4" longer.

It is a guy who has helped Gustav a lot, and Gustav wanted to give them to him as a gift, and since he is the only western rider I know of in Denmark, I had promised to make them.
But still it kind of bugged me that they didn't fit the first time, so I started making a chaps measuring belt. 

I have seen a video on Youtube with a shop where they have a belt like that. So techjnically it is a set of yokes, an adjustable backbels and an adjustable front belt. That way it will be possible to find the correct size and get the yokes to sit nice on each of the hips. That will also give something to use for measuring the height of the chaps so they will fit. At least that is the idea.
In order to make it a little bit interesting for me, and also to show people the limited skills I have in carving, I decided to make one of the yokes with traditional basket weave, and the other with a norse inspired dragon/snake that coils around itself - in case someone wants to order a set of biker chaps (those people in Denmark at least seem to be more into snakes/dragons than basket weave). Looking at the finished carving I can see that I still need to work a lot on making the dragon more fluent and coily, but for a first attempt it is OK I think.

So far the biggest mess up is that I forgot to leave room for the end of the front belt, so that will cover the head of the dragon/snake, but it was pretty fun to do the carving and trying to get by with my 4 stamps that are not for basket weave.

I have made a back belt and a front belt, but I didn't have time to mount them before going out to sea again.

Tandy pattern yoke with basket weave. (before beveling the edges)

Norse inspired dragon/snake, 1st attempt both in design and execution.