Man your leather work always looks so clean.
Thanks. Its kinda a never ending treadmill, as my brother calls it, around here. I do leather work in between batches of knives. Just finished a batch of knives and their sheaths on Monday so Tuesday and yesterday I made two custom sheaths, a belt, a holster for a Glock 23, repaired a purse from Spain for a friends wife and started on four sets of 8 ft reins, (Lots of sewing there, one set of which is for me so its getting finished first). I also helped the daughter in law finish a pair of shotgun chaps for herself and have a belt for fellow BF guy in line as well as four pairs of leggings. On the knife making side of the shop there is a box with 70 odd blades back from heat treat calling my name. Just waiting for all the materials to come in before starting another batch of knives. Oh yeah, we also run a cattle ranch, so keeps us out of the bars so to speak. The wife in the blue shirt giving shots to this calf. We made all the leather pictured here except the boots. All belts, holsters, three sets of leggings (we use the generic term leggings for chaps as there are many different types, for instance in this pic there are two pairs of chinks and one pair of charmitas) and two knives and sheaths if ya look close enough.
The wife does much of the leather carving and a lot of the sewing on the leggings. Her holster for her EMP with our cattle brand.
Cross draw, left hand slide for a Kimber 3" 1911:
The wife is pretty handy with an iron (thats some old bowlegged guy standing next to her):
Or a rope:
She is sometimes teased about her and her mare Josie having the same hairdresser:
Most of the time I'll be horseback doing a lot of the roping but I'd loaned my horse to my daughter who was home visiting from college, and she is pretty handy with a rope her ownself:
Normally leave most of the groundwork to the youngsters, cause old guys can sometimes get whooped on by calves if we are left to our own devices unless we have big backup:
Glock 43 for the old guy with big back up:
Dang it where's my horse?
Anyhoo back to guns. Browning BLR in .243 in one of our Scoped Rifle Scabbards: