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Author Topic: Finished this possibles bag for a friend  (Read 1704 times)

Offline Darren Haverstick

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Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« on: May 16, 2016, 07:50:50 AM »
I finally got this possibles bag done for a friend of mine. He is a silversmith and we were doing some bartering. He made my wife some jewelry and I made him this bag. I would have had it done a month ago but turkey season got in the way and threw me off schedule.

The dark brown leather in the bag is made from an elk hide another friend gave to me. The saddle colored leather is bison. The cream leather is deer and I burned the sketches onto it with a pyrography tool. The scaled leather around the deer is tanned carp hide. The D rings and buttons were carved from moose antler. Everything was sewn by hand using artificial sinew.

Front: I didn't want to detract from the deer skull so I used rare earth magnets as the clasping mechanism. They are sewn into the leather.


Under the flap


A bit of advertising on the back


There is a shallow pocket on the inside of the bag with a piece of elastic sewn across just above its opening. The silversmith wanted a place to store his speed loaders in an upright position and I thought this design would accommodate that.

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Re: Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2016, 10:36:49 AM »
WOW! not really my sort'a bag, but WOW!  :shock:
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Re: Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2016, 08:43:40 AM »
go stick go!
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Re: Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2016, 07:53:03 PM »
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That's a REALLY impressive piece of work !  .   :bow

A beautiful tour de force:toast

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Re: Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2016, 09:42:35 PM »
How did you tan that carp hide I have a alligator snapping tail I want to tan
Great bag by the way
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Re: Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2016, 07:52:57 AM »
Lonewolfe20, I bought that carp hide at a local leather store. You can find it all over the internet in about any color under the sun. That stuff is easy to work with and is tough as nails!

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Re: Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2016, 06:02:00 PM »
That is truly impressive work; he will love it.
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Re: Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2016, 07:26:22 PM »
That's some awesome work!!!!

All my stitching looks like a drunk Dr Frankenstein was at work.

Really great bag, WOW is an understatement.
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Re: Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2016, 10:39:17 AM »
That's nice work for sure!  :rt th
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Re: Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2016, 10:56:49 AM »
Wow ! thats nice .

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Re: Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2016, 03:52:25 PM »
Very nice.  He should be tickled.  I know I would be.   :toast
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Re: Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2016, 02:11:35 AM »
Quote from: "smokepolepaul"
Very nice.  He should be tickled.  I know I would be.   :hairy

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Re: Finished this possibles bag for a friend
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2017, 02:11:15 PM »
Wow!! Need a new friend? ;)  That is some beautiful work.