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Just finished my first seat in a while. I wanted to try lacing with brass grommets in both sides. I also wanted to try heavier leather. This seat is all 11-12 oz. leather. I normally use 8-9 oz. leather

All in all, I think it turned out ok. I liked tooling the heavier leather of course. But lacing with grommets.....it may be quite a while before I do that again. The two color lacing was a lot of fun. I like the look of it, but it is time consuming.

Dave Theobald

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Looks like you did a great job on that one. It is very nicely done.

Rohn

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That looks good. Personally, I like lacing better when someone ELSE does it ;) but that DOES look good.

JLS  "Observation is 9/10 of the law."

IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.

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I guess I'm just a bit weird, I love to lace…..The bicolor stuff looks complicated but once you get started its not bad. Just takes time.

And it doesn't take a huge amount of time to pick up the basics, again its just time and repetition.

I was fortunate, I made my first seat and the right guy saw it……then I made about 300 seats for them in a 2-3 year span.

So, now doing a seat is like …. falling down… its easy to do….

Thanks for the nice comments.

Dave

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I also like to lace and do all my holsters with lace, although that is about to change as I have purchased a sewing machine. I still plan to do a lot of lacing because everybody likes the looks of it.

Rohn

(John 8:32) And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (KJV)

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OH, I see where my reply could be taken wrong.... David, when i said lacing done by somebody ELSE, I meant somebody NOT ME :) Yours looks great!

ETA: I do it, but I don't love it.

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JLS  "Observation is 9/10 of the law."

IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.

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Beautiful!!

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Very nice work!

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