My Latest Fun Project

[bruce johnson]

It is a project that was listed in Tandy catalogs for quite a while, but apparently doesn't have the favor it once did and is no longer available. I am not sure how many of the kits Tandy ever sold. Actually I don't know anyone until now who had made one. Many of you have seen the penchant that a fellow member shares for this unique and practical item. When I realized I had missed his birthday, I split down some of my new skirting and made him up one. Whaddyathink?

[jbird]

very good Bruce

I got a make some of those

Josh

[hidepounder]

That's great, Bruce, I haven't seen one of those in 40 years! I'd completely forgotten about them! They were popular when I was a kid....in the Brylcream Days....."a little dab will do ya!".

[DG Leather]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

thats flippin awesome.......lol

I have now recalled in school when guys carried a comb in their back pockets hahaha

Maybe you should make a leather handle for one the fro picks to....so when it sticks out of the fro the handle is fancy ass...thanks for the giggle in remembering the mid eighties....

....by the way....the carving is good...i hope one day i do this type of quality.....

[HallisChalmers]

Or make a pocket protector for the "younger" generation! Very nice work!

[Doug C]

That's cool Bruce,

You could make me one. Oh wait I don't have hair anymore. ;-)

Doug

[akaawol]

Ok, not to be mean here, But whats the point? It's nice leather work n all but a comb fits easily in a pocket and needs nothing more. Of all the practical uses that leather can give, this has to be one of the most pointless ones I've seen.

[jbird]

Not so not so

This is a good idea it keeps the comb clean and the teeth from busting very good idea

Josh

Ok, not to be mean here, But whats the point? It's nice leather work n all but a comb fits easily in a pocket and needs nothing more. Of all the practical uses that leather can give, this has to be one of the most pointless ones I've seen.

[bruce johnson]

Thanks for all the kind comments. For the newer folks, I don't know how long they sold them, but Tandy carried comb case kits for a long time. I kind of figured they were like the pants in the Shepler's catalog with the big eagles embroidered on them. Somebody bought them at some time I guess. Like akaawol, I always silently wondered "Why?". Hidepounder cleared things up with the "little dab'll do ya". Much like the snoose can carriers that went on your belt, I figured a pocket was good enough. Always worked in the past for me. When I took the Tandy classes I went straight from rounders to a belt and skipped the combcase.

The guy I made this for and I have been threatening to make comb cases for about as long as I have been on leather internet groups and we sort of fell in as allies. In the last few weeks I have been making a lot of awards - repititious sort of things. When he emailed me about just celebrating a birthday I needed a bit of a humor break. Since he was too far away to TP his house, I decided I was going to blink first and make him the combcase he was always referring to. I split this out and did it one morning between another stamping project. It was pretty fun to make up the pattern and do it and imagine the laughter of him opening it. I am in the middle of stamping out a floral ropecan strap tonight, and it still is lightening things up. Eleven flowers down, seven to go.

[Razz]

Ok, not to be mean here, But whats the point? It's nice leather work n all but a comb fits easily in a pocket and needs nothing more. Of all the practical uses that leather can give, this has to be one of the most pointless ones I've seen.

Hey! brylcream may not be around to grease up all your pockets anymore, but there shure are a lot of gel and colour products that peoples do put in there hair in these days.

So it would probably come in really handy, for a gunked up comb.

PS.

I heard somebody spotted "Elvis" maibe he knows where to get some brylcream.

I may not have anymore hair, but I bet that stuff could put a heck af a shine on my cue ball head.

Edited April 30, 2009 by Razz