Wow, thank you! Glad I can help.

I was a leather pecker in my milatary years, dropped it to raise wives and familys, Now i'm 82 and over the last 18 months i have made and sold over a hundred Holsters. your never too old.

@@jackiesanders489That's great! I would agree if the dexterity in my hands would cooperate. Was diagnosed with LOMS,(late onset multiple sclerosis) several months back and my hands are the most effected. Thank God! Have my first appointment with a MS specialist next month. Maybe he'll be able to help with that part and I can give it a go again!

Thanks for watching! I'd say it's maybe a bit blue. Which is common when using this process.

ha. I try to pick chill soundtracks as for the most part, leather craft is a fairly quiet process. Would be a lot of silence otherwise. Thanks for leaving a comment!

It works on wood also.

@@HondoTrailside no kidding? Wow. Okay, gotta try that out. Maybe it’ll make my stained up work bench look a little more like it’s on purpose and less like a Jackson Pollock painting. Thank you! Have fun out there.

Yes! I also use vinegaroon to artificially age wood. The effect varies depending o the species.

Hola Zoreda Sellier. Excellente aporte. Cuando yo lo hice de distintas maneras, el cuero salió lleno de manchitas mas claras. Ud sabe como se puede solucionar? Gracias!

Thanks! Water is straight out of the tap.

@@RoadAgentLeather I found Vinegaroon weaken the leather much faster. Of two belts I made one is worn and cracking after a year, the other is not.

To each his/her own, I personally find the 6 to 8 note repetitive monotone of this type of music to be very distracting and out of place for a video where the feedback of the craftsperson is expected for any sort of learning experience to occur. If I wanted to listen to music, I could tune into some good C&W or down-home Blues and enjoy the music I like and, if I wanted to relax, there is nothing like some good instrumental solos or light listening music to get me relaxed from a hard day's work. I watch these craft videos to LEARN more about leatherwork in the areas for which I need to start doing and learning more and I find this type of background sounds more boring than relaxing. I agree that the tooling is very well done and goes with the era of the holster, but I will have to beg off on any videos which constantly repeat the same few notes to ad infinitum, no matter who is doing the video. I expect the warmth and sounds of a person's voice, lending notes and tips to the procedures being viewed, as a form of further learning about what is being done on the video. I apologize for the criticism of your background music but that has always been a personal choice for me and, as I approach my 79th year on this rock we call our home, I seem to place more and more emphasis on the "smoother" places in my life as I continue on as a "student" of things yet tried.

​@@chriswing823 iron was used since Medieval times to make cordovan (smooth, tooled black leather, named after the city of Cordoba, in southern Spain, and from which the English word "cordwainer" comes) - and it can be quite durable. The thing is, you need to REALLY condition the leather right after the item is done to prevent cracking because of the acidity of the vinegar.

@@chriswing823 Did you neutralize it with baking soda?

Wooden model ships are also another hobby of mine! I post on the Ships of Scale forums under the user name "Chakotay". My local leather store has a sewing glove like that, but I've never really looked at them.

Thanks for subbing!

@@RoadAgentLeather You are more than welcome.

That not Suede, it looks like cheap pig skin lining.

Thanks Cool Hand. The plastic guide I'm using is the "Round Strap End Template" sold by Tandy.

Thank you very much, I just ordered one after your response.

Same here. That's the hardest part of that project for me at least. So easy to mess up. Beautiful professional work!

It's "Jaracanda" from the iMovie jingles library

@@RoadAgentLeather hay do you do work for hire for a 1911 cross draw 2.5 in belt done in black