What got you started in this hobby/addiction?

[CADBURYS]

years ago i bought a leathercraft kit out of the EXCHANGE & MART did the wallet put the kit away ,then sometime later i wanted a holster for my vaquero 45 long colt (before the gun ban in the uk) went to order one but they man on the phone said it would cost more if i wanted one left handed ???? so i got some leather and book of holster patterns and made my own .im not good at leatherwork as such but i enjoy making dogware, belts etc but since being on this forum i want to learn to do more things in the art of leathercraft

[Jimbob]

Being born and raised in Germany means if you like guns or knives u are somewhat out of the order, so here I am...the odd guy...the custom knife making wave just started peaking over the fence in Germany arround early eighties and guess who was hooked....the odd guy!

I read tons of stuff about knife making, made some knives and then some more...collected knives and was in heaven working on weekends in a Master knife shop.

This master, Eduard Trittler had a son....he just had taken a leather class with Wolf Borger(later a first class custom knife maker!!) who also was working in this shop a few years earlier.

Well, short story long...I sat down with the son, learnd for 3-4 hours how to do leather knife sheats.

Boy was I proud, made my own knife sheats...wow!

Guess what, knife making died and the love for leather grew so fast...here I am, the odd guy doing leather stuff and not looking back....ohhh and I still love knives and guns!!