Something completely different

[Wild Rose]

Well sort of - it's still leather but ....
Some engraving style leather carving on a gun sling -
Closeup

Full view

and just because this is a knife forum, here's one I did over a year ago for one of Graymaker's Bowies using a similar pattern.

 

[Michael J. Spangler]

beautiful work... every time i see some of your work i just get more and more envious

 

[Rene E. Roy]

Nice!!!

 

[etp777]

Very nice on both of them Chuck.


Slings maskes me feel like I should go back to gun museum and steal a gun nie enogh to go with that sling/.

 

[golok]

Beautiful leatherwork, my friend. Magnifico!

 

[John Andrews]

Chuck, you have done it again! I do have to say, you do the best leather work I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of leather work in my time. You are an artist with leather.

 

[Wild Rose]

Now for a bit of "truth" - I had an extremely difficult time getting it together to do the sling - the type of work just didn't excite me in the same way as my frontier stuff has been doing recently. Still didn't come out too shabby and I figured that some of you might enjoy a look.

Thanks to all - John those are high words of praise indeed.

etp -please don't! that would make me an accessory before the fact wouldn't it? and I'm too old to be saying hi to Bubba in the cell block!

 

[helmar45789]

When do your next classes start? When the product contrived with "little interest" is so superior, what happens when the interest is "great"? Makes me realize I have to either lose interest or work a lot harder. I imagine Dan was as happy as a clam in sand with that sheath ---- Sandy

 

[John Andrews]

Chuck, now when I think of leather, that sheath you made for Roger, the one with the mamouth coming straight at you, jumps into my mind! It is stuck there! Leather-POP! There is the picture! I wasn't stretching my opinion any, of you work, Chuck. It was very befitting of Roger's work, by the way.

 

[Wild Rose]

I imagine Dan was as happy as a clam in sand with that sheath

or maybe a pig in ....
As to learning - the day I stop learning is the day I hang up my tools for good.

John that is a very nice picture for sure.

Actually the easy (well fun any way) part of the sling was the carving - it was handsewing the elk hide liner to it that was work! (about 80" worth of seam - and these young whippersnappers now a days complain about sewing up 6-10" of sheath )