Something completely different

Wild Rose

Wild Rose

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Well sort of - it's still leather but ....
Some engraving style leather carving on a gun sling -
Closeup
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Full view
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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.
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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/. ;)
 
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.
 
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! :rolleyes:
 
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
 
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.
 
I imagine Dan was as happy as a clam in sand with that sheath
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or maybe a pig in ....:rolleyes:
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 :D)
 
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