reopening the shop?

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I decided a bit ago to attempt to reopen my leather shop. Seems my penchant for buying guns lately has motivated me. I have a friend in town, that is a purty darn good chainsaw carver. He sells his stuff from a small kiosk he built to tow behind his ATV... He's been raking it in!!.... We worked out a deal where he will ship and receive for me in exchange for using my P.O. box to do the same with his product...
So I've been developing products to sell that have a purpose, and a bit unique...
It's going to be mostly pouches, small bags, packs, (mountainman stuff) and drinkware.... plus weird little things like cigarette lighter key chains, bracelets. I can only deliver to town every two months during the warm months, but it's a start...
I've been working on griz paw designs for my whisky glass coozies (holsters), and a version for beer glasses.. it's actually more of a stein.... Here are some of the prototypes.... (the cap gun rig is something I've had for a long time... no need to change that). I'm not sure about the griz paw.. I'm gonna sketch out a few more versions, and I'm working on a simplified mountain landscape with tree's and critters, and tree's and such...
Patterning is the rough part for me.. I'm chewin up my leather supply pretty quickly. I need to see it in my hands before I can "fix", the mistakes I made in the design. Hopefully it will pay off...
There are guns out there that need a good home!!
 

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Have already told ya I missed the first run of leather can koozies with cartridge loops & might take 1 if ya get back around to it.
 
Have already told ya I missed the first run of leather can koozies with cartridge loops & might take 1 if ya get back around to it.
I'm gonna add bullet loops... I just haven't decided how I want to do it... this new version is going to have several different versions... I'll keep you updated....
 
I'm not a leather carver. I just don't have the patience for it... so I'm working on designs and decorations that reflect my lack of eye hand coordination.... 🙄 :ROFLMAO:
I plan on working on it bit today, but after nearly 2 weeks of steady rain we got a break this morning with some nice sunshine. So... I'll use the blessing to go on a water run, and go check my trail camera's.
I'll post pics or maybe video of what I'm working on.. just a simple mountain scene with pine tree's, and foothills in the foreground.. something I can turn out with just a swivel knife, a beveler and a shading tool...
 
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If you think you could do a custom "scout" style sheath for my Randall Mini Copper, let me know.
I'm still trying to restock the shop... I'm out of pretty much everything... I will have one more freight run about sept 20th or so... then my chopper run end of october... I can start shipping late december after the river freezes... it might be january... no way to tell...
 

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