Talked with Tim a while back about displaying the leather side of fine embellishment and figured this was a good start -
It is true that you can teach and old dawg new tricks - here's living proof.
In 40+ years of leather crafting I have never done what one might call traditional 20th century leather carving. My previous work was all based on historical carving styles, mostly 19th century, and a style I have been developing that I call "leather engraving" which is based on the gun engraving styles used by Cuno Helfricht and LD Nimschke on Colt Firearms.
Anyway I got a recent order for a couple of drop loop holsters and the customer specified the style of carving so here it is.
Thanks to good friend Sandy M for helping me out with the patterns - the mistakes are all mine.