The Same Thing 30ish Years Later

[Instinctive]

I never thought I would be doing this again. About 30 years ago I made a wallet with a harness racing scene on it. Still in use today y my father-in-law.

Last week I was asked if I could make it again. Someone wanted it for their 85 year old grandfather who kept horses all his life (and still has one).

Proving, no matter what your wife says, you should never throw anything out, I was able to find my original mylar tracing pattern.

For the younger folks on the forum, to put the time frame between projects in perspective, when the first one was done:

• The internet did not exist.
• Portable cell phone weighed 5 lbs and you carried in a bag the size of your mothers purse.
• Fax machines were the new technology rage.
• I had just gotten my first laptop. It had 640K memory, 10 mb hard drive and cost $6,000.
• No such thing as a digital camera, let alone one in your phone.

First three pictures are the 2018 version. Last two pictures are the 1988 ish version.

 

[JMixx]

Both are beautiful work (to my inexperienced eye, anyway!) Love the detail! 

[bikermutt07]

That, is a cool story and wallet. Great job.

Was beta max still around when you made the first wallet?

[Jack1970]

That's really cool!  Beautiful work!

[Instinctive]

On 4/7/2018 at 9:04 AM, bikermutt07 said:

That, is a cool story and wallet. Great job.

Was beta max still around when you made the first wallet?

I forgot about beta max. Just in it dying days loosing out to VHS.

On 4/6/2018 at 9:13 PM, JMixx said:

Both are beautiful work (to my inexperienced eye, anyway!) Love the detail! 

 

On 4/7/2018 at 9:45 AM, Jack1970 said:

That's really cool!  Beautiful work!

Thank you. The hand cramps from the swivel knife are finally going away.

[bikermutt07]

Just now, Instinctive said:

I forgot about beta max. Just in it dying days loosing out to VHS.

We had Purple Rain and All of Me on beta.

[Instinctive]

5 minutes ago, bikermutt07 said:

We had Purple Rain and All of Me on beta.

Think of all the under 30 year old's on this forum who have no idea what we are taking about.

[bikermutt07]

I still don't know how vhs won that war? The beta had smaller tapes.

[DJole]

That's a lovely story and a great looking wallet with heart and soul. I can only hope that some of my stuff can last that long and be treasured like that!

[alpha2]

Nice work, that old one held up extremely well!

[Rockoboy]

On ‎9‎/‎04‎/‎2018 at 10:34 AM, bikermutt07 said:

I still don't know how vhs won that war? The beta had smaller tapes.

I think Beta was also the format that was used in the television stations and commercial video operations because it was a better format.

I guess VHS had a better spin-doctors and advertising company and more money behind it.

[Fire88]

Both are tremendous pieces are work

[Instinctive]

28 minutes ago, Fire88 said:

Both are tremendous pieces are work

Thank you.