Nm 10 Month Newbie

[Joshua Merrill]

My name is Joshua Merrill.

I am in Albuquerque NM USA.

I am 27.

http://jugglingj.deviantart.com/

http://www.etsy.com/people/jugglingj

i just started leather working January of this year.

i just bought my first sewing machine this year as well.

i bought a starter kit from Tandy and found myself hooked after trying to make my first belt. http://jugglingj.deviantart.com/gallery/28664473?offset=96#/d36y5yi

I want to be a leather worker for life. i want to make my living from leather. and i hope that i can travel to comic-cons and Renaissance festivals and sell my goods

i want to make full costumes. from traditional armor to fantasy armor and everything in between.

im willing to take all critisism if its constructive. any tips and tricks any books i should get, must have tools.

i have al stolmans starter projects 1 and 2. (cases and such)

and the encyclopedia of rawhide and leather braiding by bruce grant

[Wishful]

I like your stuff, you've been busy!