Hi all, thought I'd submit a few photos of my recent projects. Firstly my shooting bag, hand stitched with linen thread and made from 2mm veg tanned leather. The tooling was done by hand and it has a brass buckle. I dyed the bag a dark brown and finished it with neatsfoot oil and beeswax. The one sop to modern design is a simple double pocket inside the back of the bag which allows me to tuck away my ID and shotgun cert safely in a nice unobtrusive fashion. The bag itself:
From behind:
The bag with it's contents:
Secondly my own interpretation of the Lyman pouch, made from the same materials as the above bag and finished in the same way:
The size means it is of little use to me but I'm sure I can find someone to trade with at an event sometime.
Next up an English hunting pouch, copied from a painting and similar design I saw on James Rogers blog. Made from slightly heavier leather than the other pouches, wet molded (I soaked it in warm water and filled it with shot to give it its shape), stitched with linen thread, dyed and finished with neatsfoot oil and beeswax. Fairly robust without being brittle, I'm pretty happy with the whole bag. From the front:
And from behind:
For further projects etc take a look at my blog, there are a couple of modern designs on there but there is definitely an eighteenth century theme emerging. Probably also a good time to publicly say thank you to Mr Rogers and all the folks on here who's knowledge and experiences have been of great help to me.
From behind:
The bag with it's contents:
Secondly my own interpretation of the Lyman pouch, made from the same materials as the above bag and finished in the same way:
The size means it is of little use to me but I'm sure I can find someone to trade with at an event sometime.
Next up an English hunting pouch, copied from a painting and similar design I saw on James Rogers blog. Made from slightly heavier leather than the other pouches, wet molded (I soaked it in warm water and filled it with shot to give it its shape), stitched with linen thread, dyed and finished with neatsfoot oil and beeswax. Fairly robust without being brittle, I'm pretty happy with the whole bag. From the front:
And from behind:
For further projects etc take a look at my blog, there are a couple of modern designs on there but there is definitely an eighteenth century theme emerging. Probably also a good time to publicly say thank you to Mr Rogers and all the folks on here who's knowledge and experiences have been of great help to me.
