Are any of you planning to make it to the CLA show this August in Lexington Ky...it really is shaping up to be a great show...and there will be some good publicity coming out about it here pretty quick...there are a few really good bags that were made for the live auction...I will try to post the pictures here and more show info pretty quick...
Tim

Theres alot of debate about how big the average shooting pouch really was. They were all pretty much individual items and made to suit the owner thats true, but Mr. Dean Freund has recently spent alot of time gathering up all of the original source data pertaining to pouch dimensions (shape and size) and is coming up with some pretty terrific statistical data...so far it seems to prove that bags were smaller than we tend to make them now.

Under the "Questions" section, ( under "Image Galleries") I have placed something titled "Deans Story"
Its a question cause I wonder why donesnt every one think about doing something like this
should the need arise, and of course, why do such bad things happen ....
its great what you have done here Dean...to think a simple hunting pouch can
still play such a big role in our lives even in todays day and age....
Thanks for sharing this Dean...both the story and the example you have set..
Tim....

It was December twenty first. Just four days before Christmas. The call came at about 2:55 A.M. The woman on the other end was sobbing — “Dean, it’s gone it’s all gone! My house is on fire — it’s all gone”! “Lisa where’s Bob”? “He’s right here next to me”. “Dean, We’ll need a place to stay”.

heres a bear paw applied to a bag flap...tried to get all creative with it...knife is a bear jaw handle...
T.C.Albert

Heres the cobblers bench of my dreams...would be perfect for home and teaching on the road...anyway, I need to make one just like it..
Tim

heres the bag...it holds a ton of stuff handy...I sit it next to my chair and along with my candy box of awls I have about all i need to stitch away....everything except the kitchen sink....literally, i need to get up to use the sink to wet the leather as I work from piece to piece.

For everyone waiting on them, I thinks theres one or two of you... I have finally posted up some pictures of my riggers bag set up. They are under the traditional tools...I debated that, but decided that a bag like that makes sense and could be traditional....I know plunbers used them...and like most others stuff I use and love, I do have an antique example of an old timer canvas tool bag. If theres interest I can post photos of that too, but truthfully, the new version I have pictured here is wayyyyy better.
Thanks for your tolerance with my slow posts....sincerely
Tim

heres the bag...it holds a ton of stuff handy...I sit it next to my chair and along with my candy box of awls I have about all i need to stitch away....everything except the kitchen sink....literally, i need to get up to use the sink to wet the leather as I work from piece to piece.

more riggers bag photos