One Final Floral Portfolio....at Least For A While

[Double U Leather]

Here's one more floral portfolio notebook. This is the last one on order for a while. I think it turned out pretty good minus the boo boo's. There's one sure enough oops that a customer will never see, but is glaring to me. Now it's 3 rope cans and a saddle. As always, any critiques or comments are welcome. Be blessed gang.

[Rohn]

Very nice! Love it!

[drphil]

Looking good! What do you line these with? And where can I get some?

[Casey Jordan]

Very nice! I like the way you were thinking outside the box with your pattern layout! Nice tooling!

[Double U Leather]

Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate them.

Casey....don't worry, I haven't forgotten about you....LOL

Drphil....I use a 2-3 oz. Royal something or other from Tandy for my liner material.

[dragonspit]

very nice. clean. did you add any stain or dye, is that all natural?

[BondoBobCustomSaddles]

I think you need to change your name, this doesn't look like the work of a "Rookie"! Seriously, very nice work, pleasing to look at and I am sure that the owner will be doing that with pride, for a lot for years to come.

Bob

[Double U Leather]

Dragon....I put 2 coats of olive oil on it, followed by Clear Lac, followed by dark brown antique, the a coat of Tan Coat. I talked with a friend of mine who does some awesome work about how to make the antique lighter than what I've done in the past. He simply said lots of elbow grease when you wipe off the excess. The finish part turned out exactly like I wanted it to.

Bob....thanks for the compliments. I've thought about changing my name to "Dead Cow Molester", but that just doesn't sound quite right...LOL.

[terrymac]

Beautiful work Wayne. Have a question for you, how dry did you let your antique get before applying Tankote, and how much more color did you get off with the Tankote?

Terry

[Double U Leather]

Thanks Terry. I probably let it dry for an hour or so after I wiped off all the excess antique. I put a double coat of Clear Lac on it knowing that I was going to really rub on it trying to get up all of the excess. Then I suppose it was an hour give or take before I put the Tan Kote on. There was some that came off with the Tan Kote but not alot because I had gotten a bunch off when I was getting the excess off initially. Hope that makes sense. Thanks again for the compliment.