Long Time Lurker Finally Saying Hi

[Matt Bain]

Hey everyone I've lurked on here ever since I became interested in leatherwork. I got busy with college and working so messing around with messing around with my leatherwork fell to the wayside, Ive recently been rebitten by the bug and thought no better way then to say hi and introduce myself. I'm not sure if this is the correct place, but many forums I've been on want you to introduce your self in a new members area and this was the closet I've found.

Well Im going to school at Stephen F. Austin for animal science and Ag business, I really only do leatherwork for myself and every now and then a friend may ask me to do a simple little something for them. The tooling is probably my favorite part of a project. Hand sewing is by a long shot my most dreaded aspect of leather work, which is why many of my personal projects sit around unfinished for awhile before i stitch them up.

Well thanks for letting me say hi

Matt

[camano ridge]

Matt, welcome aboard. Actually the Members Gallery is set up for introductions posting of web sites and so on. However lots of people will see you here as well. We are visual people so show us some of your work we always like pictures.

[Tex Shooter]

Welcome from a fellow Texan Matt! -- Tex

[Matt Bain]

My first completed project a dog collar

Checkbook cover I dont have any pictures of this finished

Case trapper knife sheath, left natural, just had issues getting the stamp lined up every time.

The wallet I use everyday.

Some cases I made for a guy to keep some gauges in. Sorry its upside down not sure how to rotate it.

Well thanks everyone for looking. Im open to any tips or criticism if it looks like I'm doing anything wrong.

Matt

[Matt Bain]

Also if anyone would like to move this to the appropriate place I would appreciate it, I must have skipped right over introduction when i was reading the subforums last night.