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Mine did the same thing two months ago. Drive belt slipping, turned out it was just the rear one but I replaced both. You will pay out the nose at lowes etc. Check out rural king or tsc.

Very nice. What else can I say.

That looks great. Nice work.

Thanks for the tips guys. Sounds like Allens has the majority vote.

My wife and two of her friends are ready to get their permits. Who's class do you recommend? Does anyone do a women only class? Closer is better, but they will travel a bit. I know there are some women only classes further away, but couldn't find any info locally. Why that matters to them, I dont know, but if it makes them more comfortable and follow through with this, Im all for it. Thanks in advance.

Not "ultimate", but a good start:

Congrats and please keep us updated along the way. I plan to do this in the coming months with a wilson frame and slide.

Skydiver?

Thanks for the comments.

I made this for my buddy to CC his Kimber.

Sweet Camaro, I wish all of my parts were on a collectable car. I hate foxes, but they are cheap and easy to make go fast. See you at the track.

No secret. BBC, Reher Morrison worked Dart 360's and Vic intake. Hebert Solid Roller. PTC Glide and Converter, 1150 Dominator on VP113, Lemons headers, MSD 7AL3, Billet front mount MSD Dist, etc. etc. Aerospace discs all around, Stock suspension, QA1 coilovers, tube K-member and control arms, ARB, Double adj uppers, single lowers UPR. 12 point with 8.50 cert. Weighs 2500 without driver.

Oh it's ugly as hell right now but it goes pretty good. Will paint after this season.

I tinker a little. 9.50s on motor.

Nice gun for sure. I'm still saving my pennies for something that nice. Jealous.

That looks really good man, congrats.

Hilarious. Thanks for the comments. I just enjoy making them, and they dont come out half bad for a self taught guy. I'll keep practicing. I've been shopping for some "exotic" scraps to trim with (alligator, elephant, shark, ostrich etc.) I think those look pretty cool. Plain old Black. I might do a fancy one this weekend.

I got lucky the first time. I just traced my pistol on paper and went from there. When I went to glue the two pieces together, I made the glue stop about 3/4" around the gun. After it is dried I cleaned up the edges with the fine stone on my bench grinder. Then use an edge beveler around the edges. When you are ready to stitch, i ran the stitch groover about 3/4" again from the outline of the gun. Hope that made sense. They make a pointed wheel that you can run inside the stitch groove to mark the holes. I didnt want to pay for one so I just mark two lines on a piece of paper and work my way around marking where the holes will be with an awl. Hope that helps.

One more done, and one about 50%. I will stop post whoring now.

Cool, Keep after it man. If nobody picks up this stuff then there will eventually be nobody that knows how to do it. Then all of the stuff will be made with machines. I dig handcrafted stuff. To the rest of you guys, thanks for the comments.

Years ago, I used to make motorcycle seats, which is why I had the left over leather. Here is the quick answer. Basically I would take a design that somebody sent or something I drew to their liking. First, you run the leather very quickly under hot water, just enough to get it damp, this is called casing the leather. Then I just taped down my artwork over the wet leather. Next you take an old ball point pen that ran out of ink (or buy an actual stylus) and trace over the design. When you pull the paper away, you will have a nice impression of your art in the leather. Next you cut on the lines with a swivel knife, and then use a beveler to to press down the negative spaces which makes your design pop out. That is the jist of it, more to it, but that is the basic idea. Here are a couple of examples:

Thanks. Here is the 2nd one finished. I"m taking a break, stitching is the worst, followed closely by punching all of the holes with an awl. Maybe next weekend I'll do one to match my running shoes.

Number 2 is coming out pretty well. Just need to mold it to the gun and do some final touches. Applied some of my lessons learned from the first one. Still not perfect but decent. Needed one to match my boots. Bearman, I make a template then transfered it. Then cut it all in with a swivel knife and beveled it.

I had to go grab it to see what you meant. On the pachmayrs they are solid once mounted on the gun, no spongy feeling it all. I really dislike the look of these grips, but they fit my hand so well that I dont really want to swap. I still may get some mil-tac g-10s to try out.

Had nothing to do this weekend and had some old leather in the attic. I learned alot from this first one, what to do and what not to do. Still have some finishing touches to put on this one but figured I'd post some pics while I take a break. The next one should be better. I dont think the pros have anything to worry about, but i had fun making it.