Halloween....My favorite holiday

Halloween is here again........So Im changing it up. Usually I wait until the day of to brainstorm a costume and create geekish art. This year however Im planning ahead, Im creating..................A pirate!

So clearly I cant settle for store bought, I have to make it complicated...So here it is so far after 100 bucks in steel and another 100 in leather were making Halloween history...enjoy, I mean AARRRRRRRRR!

SUPPORT THE WAR EFFORT.....GIVE US YOUR OLD TIRES

During the height of WW2 the U.S. Government asked the people of the country to purchase war bonds and more famously.......donate tires. Now I asked myself (once again) why tires. Then as you all know Halloween comes around and I get this wild urge to cut stuff apart and build CRAZY in my shop. So with a bit of titanium (toss away off an Apache helicopter)and convincing a local tire changing establishment that my cause was great they donated some old race tires to my new found war of zombie domination and costume supremessy. Hence forth once again the question of,, Why tires? was answered. check it out.

Leather.......just like skin but less painful to decorate!

So, we finally sprung for a set of leather tooling essentials and started to play. figured my first experiment with tooling leather would be focused on one of my great redneck past times.......GUNS. so here it is, I decided to make a holster for my .38 snub nose(brand new Taurus I pulled in off a trade). So I began by cutting the holster patter out of heavy veggie tanned saddle leather and before sewing the pieces togather proceeded to "doodle" on the front face. And vouala, first project down and well looks pretty ok to me.....