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Strapping Young Thing

I didn’t post anything yesterday because my time was completely consumed by this…

Check that – my whole week was consumed by this.

In the beginning, the plan was to stitch it with waxed linen thread. This is how I usually do things around here because A) leather lace is pricey and B) The [...]

The Buzz

I had to shuffle things around due to a last-minute addition of Shoot from the Hip/Hide & Cyc to this weekend’s Beehive Summer Craft Fair, so you’re getting a sneak peek at some new leather designs now instead of next week.

This Friday night during Art Crawl and all day Saturday, I will be joining [...]

Rawk

In progress. A custom strap for one of Huron.

This is going to be something – stained shades of caramel and fudge with a silver buckle and concho. I’m hoping to have all the colour done today so I can start on the stitching tomorrow.

Also up this week – I may learn [...]

Tooling for Texas

A couple new shots of the strap I’m working on…

Nice Toolin' Tex

I’m trying to stick to the queue of orders I have lined up, but I’m really itching to start on the latest – the western guitar strap.

Its order-er wants the liner to be a shade of maroon I can only acheive by staining veg-tanned leather, so I get to line the whole thing with [...]

For Your Yet-To-Be-Published Manuscript

As I hope to have one of these soon (a completed manuscript that is), I figured I should ready something snazzy to carry it around in.

You know, for all the meetings I’ll be attending to discuss things like film options and whatnot.

Anyway…

Behold! The Double Agent Portfolio – for the writer pushing his/her [...]

Ho Hum Dum De Dum

Here is some of what I did today…

- Worked on a birthday/thank you cuff for Karin.

- Allowed Memphis to sleep on the couch. He was sick! He’s still fragile!

- Made falafals and a loaf of bread.

- Watched Sean silk screen some T-shirts. [...]