Stamping / The Bench

About 20 years ago I was a Baptist missionary in Panama.  We rented a building from a local man there, and his trade was leather work. He made leather covered chairs.  Works of art that would go for hundreds of dollars each here, sold for twenty bucks there. To watch him work was an example of pure mastery. Like a jack hammer in action, and only a little time later there was a completed whatever he wanted on the chair.

Stamping leather has always been the most enjoyable part, It is just "purdy". The cow hide has water applied to it and then after it has returned to near natural color, the leather is ready to receive markings. One of the many reasons I quit buying whatever was on sale and started buying Herman Oak leather is because of how well it takes and holds stamping.

To be clear, carving and stamping are two different things. To me, unless someone is extremely experienced, carvings look, "cheesy". Stamping is using various tools to, One by one make impressions in the leather. A lot of it is geometrical shapes, borders, 3D stamps, patterns that cover entirely (basket weaves), and what ever the imagination comes up with.

Examples of various basket-weaves

Examples of bordered 3D stamps and borders

Examples of just doing what hits me

What's On The Bench

Glock 19 Wingman in Black

Glock 26 Pancake in black.....this holster is for sale

M&P Shield with laser and a companion mag carrier. Dyed walnut and  Dark brown Air brushing

Glock 26 Pancake with thumb break and 2 mag carriers for a local LEO

Wingman for a full size 1911 in walnut and dark brown airbrushing

CZ75B Omni in walnut

pocket holster for a glock 43

A "Bubba J" for an  M&P 9

A skinny in the makes for little 38

A "small of  the back" avenger for a glock 43

An Avenger for a 1911

Slider for a desert eagle 9mm

Does not look like much but that is about and hours work just to make the paper for this Taurus 8 shot 357