Anyone do any kind of activity besides drink beer and shoot stuff?


I am trying out my new basket weave stamp.


First attempt at anything like this. Practice now....belt later....








Post your pics if you have them.

Looks like you got it figured out. I always thought leather work would be enjoyable.

If I knew how to post pictures, I would. Been making holsters, knife sheaths and belts for some time now. Some really great info on YouTube to help. Don Gonzalez is my favorite. Great hobby and you can get as creative as you want.

I built a meat grinder once

Sounds like an invite to a coming out thread.

Where do I find the latest picture posting procedure page?

I got this bad boy other night for the Tiny Tim Cratchit kids In the Franklin Graham ministries. think I might keep it for myself.

I can send them rugrats some Spiderman shampoo I got from the D-G.

LOL. Does it glow in the dark ?

I don't think so. Be badass if it does.

i make beer. then i drink it. then i make more.

Once in a while I'll tie a few deer hair bass bugs...

I enjoy rolling my own 410 shells.

Building duck blinds

Encouraged & helped the grandkids build birdhouses and feeders...

great start...can scrapbooks, quilts, batik, folk art be far behind...?

you go girl

haven't done any in a while but i wrap fishing rods and make shine.

Everybody I know that does leather tooling learned the craft in prison. My old foreman had "carpenters nail anything" with a topless chick tooled into his tool belt. Said he made it during his most recent stay.

Turned a few of these (peppermills) awhile back.

Instead of hard liquor I now drink red whine with the beers.



Pinot Noir is the chit.

Made several varieties of these necklaces. Too showy for me to sear but the wife likes them.

I've also made some antler art.

Very cool KC.




A coaster I made this afternoon.

Schit....that was too close.


Looks much better from a distance!

Hmm, Years back I carved some decoy copies while waiting for the 706 diesel to start. No pictures.
Then there is the birchbark moose call I made, ugly, but it might call a moose.

The snail coaster looks good.

That's some good stuff guys.
One would assume that it's relaxing to make stuff like that.

I know pics or it dont count but. In past ive

Built cat trees from scrap,
a massive baseball diamond shaped shadow frame with diamonds at each corner holding various things, with real baseballs 3 old gloves, homemade american flag medals fake ivy and a picture of my grandfather in his neighborhood uniform, ive got a picture in A scrapbook is all thats left as it became a casualty of love affair gone south, was an azure blue color with red felt interior, rather proud of it, then
a huge 18 hole purple martin house my family wrecked,
mirror frames,
lifesized, painted xmas silhouetted Peanuts lawn ornaments that got left at another chippys familys house,
Designed, Routed and wood burned signs,
Made stained glass windows from easy craft materials,
Made home made bear bells to clip on pants out of scrap leather, and sleigh bellsw
Home made silouette goose decoys


....so ya, in past ive dabbled in the creative arts. Basically whatever i could dream up,

"Im an idea man, Chuck". "Watch this....edible paper!"

Alwayswanted to work leather though, just as jimmer is doing. Punches can be expensive. Ive admired Kaywoodies possibles bags he creates from scratch as well.

Als not brave enugh to go after sharpening my own knives. Diff grinds and bevels, dont want them ruuunt.

Looking good Jim. Some decorative swivel knife cuts in your flower adds to the overall impression.

Nice, Jimbo!

Sam- House Wine Pinot Noir in the 5 liter box is the schit!

I am pretty poor with those.

Decided to try without this time.

Need more practice.

Looks good Big Jim!

Nice job shading the flower. The saddle maker I learned from, had me take a scrap and just do the carvings. He showed me how to tip the swivel knife and turn it with my finger and thumb. The start ,with the little curve makes the cut look best. Like anything takes time and some good pointers help.

I used to like putting scales on those old carbon steel Green River blanks and use em for gifts or barter but my old hands quit working somewhere along the way.

I made sheaths for em too but no fancy stamping like you're doing. They were serviceable though.

'cept its sposed to be a deer

Jim nice work. When I was a kid Tandy the company that owned Radio Shack used to sell leather working tools and supplies. I had a wallet for many years i made and we worked on a few belts and key fobs. Good hobby for those miserable winter days.

Made this as birthday gift. Moose , dall sheep and black bear.

thought it was a sheep? just kidding of course.lol

I'll post this stag set again.

Belt for daughter made today.

Nice JC!

I make pig traps

There are some talented folks on here. Really like that elk antler lampstand KC!

I cobbled all the stuff together in this pic. Including the fence!



Some of my southeastern Native American style finger-weaving and twining.

Who wouldn't be proud of that? Nice work.

She is a lucky young lady!

Great work Jimmy and Kaywoodie. They will be treasured gifts.

Step it up, we outta see the "J Conrad Saddle Company" develop by spring.

Lets see some headstalls and harnesses and the like...

I just made this plate empty. I've been doing it for a lot of years and I am quite good at it, if I say so myself.

That's pretty cool, Jimbo!

I'm not familiar with this at all. Did you just buy some sort of a starter kit? What do you mean by stamp?

My folks bought me a kit for Christmas last year. That was how I got started.

A stamp is a tool that makes an impression on damp leather. Use them to make designs.

My Grandfather's brother in law made him a set of saddlebags years ago. Probably 50 to 60 years ago.


Bags were made by Bud and Sylvia Drewiak's Leathergoods.


Earlier this year my dad gave the bags to Young Richard.


The rawhide lace that keeps the halves together was rotten.

Looked it up and figured it out....a Whip Stitch.

Soaked up the lace and fixed em.

It looks the part nice work Jim. Love that 2nd pic..

Good on you. He'll cherish those forever.

Got a pattern off the internet for a Leatherman Wave case.


Turned out pretty good I think.

Does this hobby ever make you bleed?

First time tonight with the two needle saddle stitch.


I had to stop and see where all the blood was coming from!

Made a wallet the other day.

Bet ya could sell custom rifle scabbards right here.....

Gawdamn boy, look at the size of that thumb! You ever check somebodies oil your liable to kill him! Oh, nice leather work too..

brand it, and oil the piss outta it.....

Good. strike that.....great stuff Jim Conrad.

You might inspire me to get back into the leather working. I've posted a pic or two before of the Apache "boots" I made and hunt in sometimes. Wallet I carry is a Tandy kit, probably 25 years old now. Have made a hat and a few other goodies too. For small projects I've picked up old "cowboy" style work boots (Wellingtons and such) for a coupla bucks at yard sales or second hand stores, the tops of them are usually in good repair and don't take much abuse over the years. Don't buy the ones that guys tuck their pants into though, those are usually covered in cowshit. Taken apart, the outside leather is good for stuff needing good thick leather, the inner liners can be used for little "possible" bags, jewelry bags, etc.

I might have to dig out the kit, never did get into all the tooling, mostly just the sewing. Something I can do while watching HOCKEY!

Going to keep my eye on this thread to see what else you come up with.

The saddle bags are a cool heirloom. Glad you could put them back into service.

Geo

You guys should see the dandy stuff 6mmRemington been makin'! Hopefully he's see this a post...

He needs someone to post his pictures. Would be glad to if'n he is around.



Meanwhile at Conrad's saddle repair shop.....

Daughter has a big day of riding tomorrow for 4H.

Going over west to an indoor arena.



She wanted new saddle strings on the back....so I wrestled them in.


Got to looking at the horn and noticed the stitching had failed.


The only stitch I know is called a saddle stitch......made sense to try!


Glued and stitched back together. No charge.....

Lookin good Big Jim...

Jim, there must be a lot of naked cattle running around your neck of the prairie. Nice work.

PS. You need one of those $150 Chinese cobbler's leather sewing machines from Ebay/Amazon.

Some southeastern Native style twined bags and finger woven tumplines I did a few years back.



Started another small twined bag other day. Need to get back to work on it.

Jim! Looking really good!!!

One of many hobbies - Flint knapping - A quarter for scale



Ran off about 150 points this last fall. A shadow box to each family member for Christmas. Can dig the obsidian out of my back yard, so except for shipping, I was a cheap bastard this year.

Also fly tying/fishing, rod building, stock making, lots of hunting, and trailing along behind Cookie with her cameras, so a bit of photography if I happen to fall and a camera goes off. .

Have a good one,

Nice arrowheads!




That stuff looks really good Bob. Is that made out of little beads?

Flie tying, reloading, cooking wct.

Nice work. I'd like to find someone with a predator track stamp to customize a knife sheath.

No Jim, I used Hand dyed wool yarn, jute and hemp twine.

Went to Billings(!) a while ago and got to go to some leather shops.


Picked up a side for a good price.


Over Christmas, my mother spotted a purse of my wife's that she liked. The wife's purse was not real leather, but I used it as a pattern.


Not very fancy, but it think she will like it.



Its her birthday tomorrow.

Looks good 👍🏻

Hell yeah!

Looks good there Jimmy.

I've got a pretty good front pocket ID wallet front I'd wallet

If you ever want to try and make one, I'll send it to you to cut apart and make some patterns. Just sew it back together before sending it back

Nice work!

Nice work!

Thumbs up James!

Geno

This thread is a good one! I really like to see what other campfire members are making.

This is a knife I made from an old crosscut saw blade and an elk antler. I started out making knives as a hobby years ago, went full time in 2002 with my brother working under the name "Twin Blades" and I am now trying to turn it back into a hobby.

I like to tie a few flies when needed, make a few basic knives (carbon steel stock removal) when time allows, a little wood work when momma needs something. Nothing fancy but it's fun to do.



My tiny tying corner

Im restoring and powdercoating1969 snapon toolbox. I baked it today. Will assemble tomorrow. Not to exciting. Cool idea for a thread though!

I build pig traps and bbq pits

Talked to a guy today.


Says his friend sent his saddle to a shop and they did everything he wanted.....except wrap the horn.



So I says I can wrap a horn..........no problem.



Got a couple strips of mule hide coming. Found a video on the internet.



At least I dont charge anything.....







Will post a pic when I finish.

I just smoke pall malls now
Dont wanna post ww2 german armour models
Dont wanna post gun projects
Dont wann post pics of hunting guns
Dont wanna post pics of targets shot.
Dont wanna post pics from hunting spots
Dont wanna post up live from da stand stuff
Dont wanna post wingbone turkey call.
Dont wanna post turkey spur necklace stupid thing.
Dont wanna post my paint by numbers beagle from when i was 6.
Dont wanna post pics of my grow op
Dont wanna post pics of my lathe turned brass chamber pipes.
Dont wanna post pics of my made to order custom Cici,s pizza.
Dont wanna post any I love me mil pic schitt.
Dont wanna post pics of my dogs
Dont wanna post pics of dead deer
Dont wanna post pics of dead turkeys
Dont wanna post pics of type 3 AK47,s
Dont wanna post pics of projectile points/ arrowheads
Dont wanna post pics of how to fix or improve guns.
Dont wanna post pics of schit basically ............
Dont fish anymore, waaaaay too boring so dont fret any pics of fish from me......









All you guys would do is critique it all anyways.

Lol!!!


And Bins image gallery only holds 2mb per pic now instead of the 8mb per pic it used too.
My phone cam is avg around 4 to 6mb in a pic.
And all of a sudden I have ta crop and resize everything under 2 mb

What a PITA....



I did figure out post image earlier tonight.
So I might bless you all with something later tommorow.
Maybe an Award winning armour model display from 2005

But I doubt it.

Lol!!!!

Those poor mules.

Their are craftsman on this thread.
And that is for sure.

Please figure out how to make a fluted clovis and a Redstone

Your work is fantastic!!!!

Dont be so stuck up Rene.

You posted a selfie a while back..........you can post your projects too.

I build furniture. Everything from early 17th century to modern stuff. Chests, dressers, tables, desks, chairs. I use a mix of power and hand tools. Been doing it for the last 15 or so years. Been doing less of it recently, since I have taken up reloading and more shooting. Currently working on a cherry buffet for our dining room. I don't have any of my project pics on imgur, and can't add any on the work computer, otherwise I would post some.

Gooday, ya learning crafts can save a lot of money to. I've made, fold up buck saws, knives, leather work, snow dogs, mini bikes. Go karts, sleighs, barn board furniture, walking sticks from weird shaped sticks, hand tools, power tools, boats, toboggans, paddles, Christmas decor, to houses,decks, cupboards, but your lucky I can't post pictures or we would be here all day & although I can make all this stuff, I wouldn't compair to some on here. I always seem to hurry to much!!!! My next project is going to be, weaving a pack basket, & then bend wood into the shape much like a snow shoe for pack frame. Seeing all these things on here is good & gives ya new things to try!!!! I don't know about you guys, gals but I learned all this stuff years ago so I could have some of the same stuff other kids had. Anywooo I'm out. Bill. 🐾👣🇨🇦

Some of my hobby work. I have a full time job that pays the bills and impedes on my hobbies.

Large mahogany dresser



Carved walnut 17th century style chest


Tall walnut blanket chest

Rear view of same

Damn!!! Very nice work scoony!!!

Yeah scoony.

Did you go to any special schooling or pick it up along the way?

Geno

sweet

Well took shop class in High School, but that was back in 1980-1983.

Pretty much learned by reading books, magazine articles, and most of all, simply giving it a try. Carving or dovetails are not that difficult. It is simply removing material in the right places.

Here is a Maloof style rocker I made a few years back


And a Windsor style chair

That looks awful good Scoony.

Aww schitt jim.

Totally forgot .
I will post em up tommorow.

You never seen those 1/35 tanks????

scoony you got some skills big time!!!!

The amount of work going into your projects and eye for detail is something alot of people cant comprehend or really appreciate in this day and age.

No sir. What are those?

Here ya go Jim.
Dont wanna take this one off the shelf.
Posted these about 4 or 5 yrs ago.
Wanna build a M1a2 someday in the near future
All 100% hand painted. No spray gun.
Need a fly tie rig with magnifying glass like I had when I put these all together a long long time ago.
BORING 3rd tour in Korea on General staff for a year.




More pics to follow
Havent figured out postimage really well yet.

That’s badass Renegade!

Nice man! Awesome

Excellent chairs there scoony.

Wonderful that you just gained the experience necessary firsthand.

Hope you have someone to pass it on to though.

Geno

Nice vehicles there rene......................



but where are the Allied versions?


Geno

Hulled through and through....


I am gonna make an Abrams someday

Thats it till I can find a good Tamiya or Dragon 1/35 Abrams with 1/72nd AR decals when I get around to it someday.

My phone camera sucks.
LOL!!!


Holy schitt!!!!

I just noticed I made Kahuna!!!


Big Kahuna burger status now!!!

Minus Jules dumping rounds into me!!!!!

Bout another 5 or 6 years at this rate
Have my big boy undies on as an Oracle!!!!

Jim,

Do you recall where your kid's got your leather kit? Thinking about giving it a go. Need a new belt anyway.