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Unfortunately things didn't work out in Alaska for our friend Vince and he ended up back in the lower 48. Life is always throwing curve balls it seems.

Here is my tooling test. I now have a very fancy coaster for my desk. It almost seems too nice to go putting mugs on, ha ha.

Honestly I don't think I really want more speed than what is typical of brass. Magnums never appealed to me, more velocity yes, more energy, but that means more recoil and barrel wear. This is from the perspective of someone who doesn't have to shoot long range though, I do see how this could be...

I prefer owning understated firearms, but I really do enjoy the artistic aspects of a well appointed firearm even if it isn't something that I would really want to own. Case hardening is one of my favorite looks. Excellent.

Excellent!

I am not confident in my freehand carving ability at this point, but I could do a basket weave pattern. I put together this pattern in an art tool as an example of what I could do with just a basket weave stamp and a camouflage stamp. Both of those would be very easy to get and I could order...

Nice set of bags, they look great! Despite being slow, I really do like hand stitching for leather.

I have not done any tooling as of now. I hope to get into it eventually but am not set up with the tools quite yet. Depending on what you are looking for it might not take much for me to be able to do. With some designs it only takes two or three stamps to make a nice pattern. If you can find...

Funny you say that, I'm messing around with making them a bag right now, but I'm actually trying my hand at working with fabric instead of leather. I learned some hand stitiching, but that is mostly for odd situations. I have to get some basic instruction on using the sewing machine soon.

Pretty good ramblings if you ask me. It is nice for someone like me who doesn't have a ton of shooting experience to hear the progression of someone who does.

Yerp, that was probably the problem. I am not a big computer person myself, but my dad and older brother both are programers and I am involved in video game dev (as an artist and project manager, not a programer,) so I have picked up a bit here and there at this point. I still get stuck...

There we go. I might try selling some of these and see what happens.

I recently made this simple wallet. It seemed like this should be much easier than making a knife sheath, but I was suprised to find that it took a similar amount of work because you have to do all the same steps. It is made out of veg-tan which has the nifty ability to be wetted and moulded...

YES! That is so cool! I want a ride, he he.

Dang, that is gorgeous wood for a T3. Sweet.

Wow, he looks like he has been bench pressing all year in an attempt to compete with a tiger in size! 😲

That's nice to hear. It seems hard to find experiences like that these days, but the bad apples DON'T have to spoil the whole batch if we don't let them.

A little break down by Silencer Shop: https://www.silencershop.com/blog/hearing-protection-act-2025

I love living out here, I think it is pretty much my ideal place to live, but my house has foundation problems. Basically we have to re-build the entire foundation from under the house because it will rot out eventually. We did a couple sections ourselves because none of the proffessionals were...

Happy Independence Day everyone.