Oh the pain!

[SCOUTER]

Tazz, Great job on the wallet! He did some really nice carving! A little antique finish and some hi-lighter and you could have carried it!!!

Good luck with your PineWood derby! I have to tell you that they are FUN! If you ever get a chance to attend a "regional" event GO! Just for the fun of it! You will see kids having a blast and you will also see some over zealous parents who spent many hours on the car and look way too serious!

Good Stuff!

[Beaverslayer]

Tazz, you give your son a BIG pat on the back and a HIGH FIVE as well. He's done a wonderful job on the wallet, very nice indeed. Let him know we're very pleased that he shared this with us, and to keep up the great work. He's a future leather artist in the making.

Ken

[Spider]

Tazz, tell little batman that he is rockin and makin some stuff that people would only wish they could. My son is gonna be 3 in July and he sits with me when I do leather and pounds at the Stamps on a piece I give him. This helps me get my stuff done and him entertained and bonding with me.

Great going Tazz and little Tazz.

[unicornwoman]

Congrats to you both!

On the kit, I vaguely recall doing a Tandy kit where you have to skip some holes and leave them unlaced on the lining? Was that why it didn't all line up? Pardon me if it is a dumb question. I haven't done a wallet in a while.

[tazzmann]

Thanks for the kind words guys. I read them to him this morning and he beamed as he stuffed the wallet in his back pocket! :D

unicornwoman (my daughter would fight you for that name), I didn't see any instructions that said to skip holes, so not sure what that was all about. hhmmmmmm.... skip holes.....why make it any more confusing by adding extra holes?

[howardb]

Laugh?? Cry perhaps. I'm a bit jealous as he's better than I am. Certainly better than I was when I started out! FINE work for a beginner of any age. 7 makes it that much more impressive.

I'm "so far so good" on Tandy kits. Other than the manhole sized punchings, everything has fit well. The deeeluxe check writer kit looked like the little bits lined up whilst I was dry fitting things together.

GREAT story working with your son. Mine is into music, and we can share some back & forth on old bands, but he can actually play instruments, while I can't carry a tune in a bucket.

(Scouter - mine's a Star at 13. Hoping he goes for Eagle...)

Edited January 29, 2008 by howardb

[gnwy]

Man that kid has got talent, I have never been much of a carver myself, and USED to say that any I did looked like something a 7 year old would do. Never did I think that it would be an insult to 7 year olds such as yours. Im glad that you have the chance to spend time with your son, it will pay dividends down the road. I have two boys, 21 and 17 that are kind of distant, which is all my own fault. When they where young I was too busy working long hours, getting a business going to spend much time with them, and now that I have the time, they are not too hip on spending much time with the old man. Hopefully I can be closer, and spend more time with any Grand kids that come down the line.

[indypbear]

Mike,

Tell your Tiger Cub "Good Job" from an old Eagle Scout. I didn't start my leatherwork until 1956 and I was getting on my mothers last nerve. She bought me a Lucky 7 starter kit and the rest is history as they say. I never was your son's level of good at 14. I'm wishing he was a little older so I could meet him at the 2010 National Jamboree (100th Anniv.). Now he can teach it to his fellow Tiger Cubs.

You're a great Dad! You keep up the good work also. We're ALL proud of both of you.

Indy

[Pip]

So much has been said and I agree totally.

My njickname over here as some preople joke is batman, as i rescue bats.... so from one batman to another, here is my namesake Pip (pipistrelle) and its only a pup, no fur yet. A baby bat is not something you get to see everyday, neither is such a great wallet created by a seven year old well done.

[tazzmann]

Thanks again guys for the kind words. He is really getting into leather and I have been piecing him together some tools from TLF so that he doesn't have to use daddy's. He is currently working on a dog collar for our dog "Max". He is getting requests from the kids at school and cub scouts to make them wallets! LOL I told him he needed some more practice before he started making money at this.

I will get a post up when he gets the dog collar done. Then maybe he will give me a break so I can post up a pic of the bike bag I just did. It was my first time doing flames and skulls, so interested in what you guys think.