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Offline James Rogers

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Some recent bags
« on: June 26, 2018, 04:03:42 AM »
Made of vegetable tanned horsehide. The belt is cowhide and the buckle is a tinned steel handmade by me. The buttons are by Ward Oles and copied off of originals.





















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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2018, 05:42:32 AM »
Those are nice!!

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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2018, 02:31:02 PM »
 Really neat looking, Great work. Are the buttons functional?

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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2018, 02:57:35 PM »
Tim, thanks.  The buttons are functional and historical in keeping the flap down  but the cords actually close the body.





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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2018, 03:26:37 PM »
Tim, thanks.  The buttons are functional and historical in keeping the flap down  but the cords actually close the body.



 Thanks, for some reason I was thinking that the cords were game hanger.

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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2018, 04:32:04 PM »
I don`t think water could get through that stitching!! ;)   VERY nice work!!   Nate

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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2018, 06:18:09 PM »
Very cool!  My favorite is the dark colored one with the matching belt...just gorgeous!

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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2018, 02:54:37 AM »
Do you make those brass buttons, or are they commercially available?

The bags themselves are gorgeous, and very well made.
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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2018, 03:36:16 AM »
Thanks, the buttons were hand made by Ward Oles.
A buddy helped me out of a bind as I was out of them and needed a few more until my current order arrived ; )
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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2018, 12:45:47 AM »
More fine art masquerading as leather bags.  :-)  Up to your usual excellent standards sir.  I like the contrast of the pale stitching on the dark bags.  I know that pale caramel color has to be a beast to create though.  Thank you for sharing.  And yes, I did catch the tiny fine tooling on the belt keeper.  Nice.  God Bless,   Marc

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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2018, 01:41:45 AM »
Thanks Marc. Unfortunately there is no art in my veins ; )
You're right about the lighter color. Takes some patience.
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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2018, 06:01:01 AM »
Nice bags James. Did you use vegetable tan leather to make them with?

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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2018, 07:15:43 PM »
Brian, Thanks and yes, all components are vegetable tanned. The buckle is one of my manufacture in tinned steel.
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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2018, 03:07:40 PM »
James, if that is your shop in the background of those photos I am really impressed.  No wonder you do such nice bags.
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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2018, 06:56:21 PM »
Those bags are very nice.

Your shop is too clean, you need more to do and less time to do it in.

Perhaps I will clean on my shop more this week.

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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #15 on: July 04, 2018, 04:44:47 AM »
Thanks guys. Yes I try to keep my leather shop fairly clean. I give it a go over after each project. It just took me three days over the weekend to get my gun shop in enough order to put some barrels in wood though  : )









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Re: Some recent bags
« Reply #16 on: July 04, 2018, 12:58:47 PM »
Makes you want to don a kilt. Very nice, James. Thanks for posting.
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