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Post by beaudro on Apr 3, 2009 12:00:55 GMT -5
Things going on in my neighborhood.
neighbors keeping the grass mowed?? mine are building forts.
my dog behaves really well, he thinks he might end up on the wall too.
no, those aren't church bells, it's beaudro beating on his anvil again.
"look out! he's opening his garage door.
Is that a tipi in his back yard?
"that thing he has hanging up back there,, i think it moved"
"is he bbq'ing or smoking hides again?"
the list goes on and on,
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Post by Buckskin Billy on Apr 3, 2009 12:47:28 GMT -5
sounds like my back yard beaudro, but i heard a neighbor say what the hell is that smell, aw its just buck skin billy and his critters he's a tanning good luck on the shirt bama. i'm with beaudro, the best way to make it look right is to wear it. black powder gunk, deer blood and wading creeks and streams is the best way to make it look right. my buckskin pants are about a year old now and they look like wrinkled leather instead of buckskin, but you won't find nothing softer anywheres
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Post by beaudro on Apr 3, 2009 14:51:57 GMT -5
Billy is right , they do get softer if they are used. For a couple of years I carried around my coat in a box , only took it out for a few hours at the rendezvous to parade around in. One day I bit the bullet and wore it in a rain storm. Then finally I wore it skinning, then trapping, and now i'd like to wear it all the time. Just don't put it away wet. I've seen mold grow on buckskin. When i get mocs wet, i just keep on wearing them until they are dry , they seem to shrink and shape around my foot much better than a new pair anyway. Many of the trappers went to sleep at night wearing their mocs and all buckskins. One example is of a trappers feet hurting from the shrinking of his mocs, he gets up and wets them down again to relieve the pain. Another example of leggings doing the same.
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Post by bamaman on Apr 5, 2009 15:40:42 GMT -5
Yeah I'm with you guys on wearing your braintan like they used to. My concern isn't getting it dirty. My concern has been getting that pigment crap smeared in random places on my shirt/pants and everything else I am wearing. I think I figured out the way to do it though. I did a test piece with rubbing the pigment directly into the leather. Then painting a thin layer of the hide glue(with no pigment in it) on top of it. I really like how it is turning out. I'm getting more of an authentic look like I did by just rubbing it in, and I'm also getting the advantage of it being waterproof from the hide glue. Another thing that I've found by doing it this way is that it doesn't crack like it did when I put the pigment in the glue and painted it on. Here are some pics. First, the test piece The darker brown part that looks wet is the part that I put the hide glue on after the pigment. Here is a pic of the sleeve with just the pigment. I was cooking the hide glue so this is what it looks like with just the pigment rubbed in. And here is a closeup with just the pigment on it I have the hide glue painted on the sleeves now and when it dries I'll get some pics up. Thanks for all of the help guys, this has been a fun project and I've learned a lot.
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Post by Buckskin Billy on Apr 5, 2009 20:39:07 GMT -5
thanks for including us in your project. i 've learned alot as well. can't wait to see the finished job. i like the way that dark brown looks on the buckskin
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Post by bamaman on Apr 6, 2009 7:36:06 GMT -5
I did use a good bit of pigment. I wanted it to look really dark brown. The pigment is also a very dark brown. What I did after I rubbed it in is sprayed it down with water. It seemed to help it soak into the leather really well. I didn't even think about doing that before I did the pigment... I do like the way its looking though.
I'm going to do a couple of red stripes further up the sleeve. I'll wet the leather before the pigment to see the difference. Thanks for all the help guys.
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Post by two bit on Apr 6, 2009 19:36:53 GMT -5
yeah that is some nice stuff guys
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Post by bamaman on Apr 9, 2009 22:14:34 GMT -5
Well, I did the stripes. Now it needs some beadwork and some hairdrops. I'm workin on both of them but here is some pics with me wearin it. The parts I just painted are a little stiff, but they'll soften back up the more I wear them. I tried it with wetting the leather before adding the pigment this time on the stripes. It works that way pretty good, but I found the pigment a little harder to control. In the end I'm pretty happy with how it turned out though.
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Post by Buckskin Billy on Apr 9, 2009 22:29:55 GMT -5
that sure turned out great. mighty fine work you do bama man
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Post by bamaman on Apr 10, 2009 7:10:30 GMT -5
Thanks for the kind words guys. I sure will put some more pics up when the beads and hairdrops get done. I have some quilled hairdrops being made right now and will probably get the beadwork in about a month or so. I would do them myself, but I don't do beads.... too tedious for me.
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Post by bamaman on Jun 16, 2009 22:07:47 GMT -5
Update: I added some quilled hair drops. I put 20 on each arm thinking that would be enough... but it kind of blends in with the fringe more than I would like. I'll probably add more later.
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Post by caretaker on Jun 16, 2009 22:33:43 GMT -5
That is one very nice shirt. I have been following this and watchin and learnin. Thanks for sharin your project and progress. I like the way it turned out. Sweet!
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Post by two bit on Jun 16, 2009 22:48:10 GMT -5
really nice work
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Post by Buckskin Billy on Jun 17, 2009 17:41:28 GMT -5
thats nice. it looks real good. i agree with you , you might need to scalp a few more horses ;D. that is a shirt to be proud of
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Jun 17, 2009 20:52:06 GMT -5
Yup thats a fine shirt and you alot nicer lookin feller than me and shady bill
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