Made this shooting bag for a friend

[YinTx]

Awesome, he is going to get asked 1000 times where he got that!  

YinTx

[MichaelT]

Wow! That looks great- you really put a lot of thought into that. I really like the mix of different leathers-, the textures and colors really make it pop.

I can't fathom why he wouldn't love it- and if he doesn't- check his pulse!

Nice rifles too.

[Stetson912]

After looking closer I don't think the trim around the inlays was laced was it? How did you do that! Again, remarkable work. 

[dhaverstick]

Thanks, everyone! Kulafarmer, I killed that moose about 70 miles north of Edmonton, AB. The guide and I skinned it out in the bush and took it to a tannery in Edmonton which, oddly enough, sent it to someplace in Ontario to actually tan it. From the time I turned the hide in to the time I received my leather took about a year. What amazed me about the whole deal was the price; only $7 a square foot! The hide those rifles are laying on is the finished product and I think I ended up with a little over 30 square feet of 5 ounce leather.

What I do to outline the colored pieces is glue down 1/8" leather lace around the perimeter and then sew it down with a single thread of artificial sinew using an "X" stitch.

Darren

 

[Stetson912]

Awesome. Thanks!