Two New Tutorial Videos Available

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Some of you may know that I've created a free tutorial video and made it available on my website and on YouTube. I've just recently added two new videos to my website, though this time they will not be made freely available (hey, bills to pay, and mouths to feed!). In an effort to help spread the word, and also to give back to the Leatherworker.net community, I'm temporarily making these two new videos available to the LW.net forum with the following login information. If you view the videos and find them useful, I'd much appreciate if you'd spread the word... The login information will expire around 9:35 PM Central time on 6/10/11, but I may extend it another 24 hours if enough people are interested in watching it and don't see this post before then.

www.adamsleatherworks.com - login with the following information, then click the "How's it Made" link at the top to navigate to the videos.

username: alwguest

password: guest

Take care,

Eric

[TexasJack]

Very nice job on the videos, Eric!

[Reaper]

Very good of your Eric and nice complete and informative videos too...

[King's X]

Nice work and continued success!

[Cattle Hide]

Thanks for the chance to see the videos!

RE the pattern video it would have been nice to see a brief view of the flat leather pieces and then the completed holster.

You have a very steady drawing hand. No need for french curves, it looks great to me just the way it is.

[dscott]

nice videos

thanks so much for time to watch them

learned a lot

Dscott

[Steven Kelley]

Excellent videos! What type of bone folder are you using?

[RWP]

ive been jonesing for more videos on your site since i first joined up here and saw the first one thanks!

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Thanks for the compliments everyone!

Cattle Hide - I agree about the photos of the finished product. I plan on doing more of them, for different styles of holsters, and will make sure to include the step of dividing out that pattern into individual pieces.

Steven - the bone folder in that video was an old one I bought back in the mid 90's when I was an Art major. As I mentioned in the video, it broke when I pulled too hard to shape a belt tunnel. I was in the middle of forming a batch of holsters and needed something quick, so I had my wife pick up a pack at Hobby Lobby to get by until I could buy a real bone replacement. They were cheap plastic junk that flexed way too much - couldn't do squat with them on leather. So, I ordered a bone folder from Springfield Leather. I believe it's made by Osborne.

[Tac]

Great work Eric! I love the videos. Well shot and very well explained. It amazes me how much we share in common as it relates to technique, tools and style. Thank you for sharing! (I wish these videos were around when I was just starting out and trying to figure things out. It would definately have shortened the learing curve and saved a lot of leather in trial and error!)

-Tac