camp stool in the works

[GunClick Rick]

Put a Buffalo head right in the center on mine

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Lookin' good, Cowboy. The lacing will really finish it off.

[santee]

Put a Buffalo head right in the center on mine

Yeeeouch!! Did you de-horn it first?

[Gun Butcher]

Cowboy , all I can say is thatis a beautiful piece of work. Your finishing job is the perfect accent to a great design execution.

[GunClick Rick]

I gotta have one,to sit by this fire up by the big redwoods...







I have to stay up and watch for Devil racoons



Them stools should sale like hot cakes!

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Rick,

The place looks really great!

I can see you sitting on the back porch with those stools, firing out into the range in the backyard ....

[GunClick Rick]

 It's a purty good place,wish it were mine,it belongs to my Seargent at the PD cousin,he's the one with all the hot dogs.That's a bunkhouse next to the main place.It is a nice bunk,quite and good sleep bunks in it,them dang racoons stayed under it.I was lookin around the corner for one tryin to sneak up on him,i turned around and he was inbetween a log and the stairs just his head peakin out lookin at me like,"what the hell you lookin for?" My cousins wife was laughing her butt off...

I know my cousin and his wife would want one too.If i get somethin he has to get one or better,then it starts all over again

[cowboy316]

Hey pards.  Thanks for all the kind words. I'm greatful.  As for sell them.... I'm up for it - I just would have to figure out what to charge for them. 
How about you all give me some ideas, since marketing is my wife's side of things and she isn't around right now.  I have about $100 in supplies for them.  They are set on 4 steel legs that fold up.  I think you know the type. 

[GunClick Rick]

Howdy Cowboy,are the legs good and sturdy?Sort of in a crisscross formation?Do they stay on the seat or remove?I have seen 3 legged ones but yours seem to be bigger with more seat area.I wouldn't have any idea what to charge for them...I know it's hard to make back what a feller puts in his work.I used to make nice drean catchers 8-10 inch in diameter,but get back what time and goods i had in them was tough,then again i liked to make them.

[cowboy316]

Hey Rick
these stools are a 4 legged cross style set up and they are removable from the seat its self and the seat its self measures 13"x13" and from what ive seen they seem purdy sturdy
Cowboy316

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Regarding cost,

Tandy Leather has the four leg stool kit at $79.99 plus tax.

Without any designs on the leather at all.

Here is the website:

http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com/search/searchresults/44472-00.aspx?feature=Product_1&kw=stool

Now, if you could get them wholesale and then sell them for $100.00 each, you might have a small cottage industry going...

However, REI sells a nylon three legged version for  $19.50

So it all depends on what monetary value a member places on comfort and historical accuracy I guess.

My offhand, IMHO, is that you could get enough of a return to pay for your reloading  costs .... *S*

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Hi,

I was surfing the web and came upon the site of another cowboy who is selling the four leg stools for $75.00/stool ...
Here is the site:

http://www.logosleather.com/shooting_sports

[JD Alan]

Having built a tri leg from scratch myself, including the tri bolt, $75.00 seems like a pretty fair price to me. (Referring to the website)

I went a little overboard and used hardwood for the legs. I think whatever you could pick up at a Home Depot or Lowes would work fine.

I made one out of necessity, for my back, so I didn't spend a lot of time on the stamping or carving, though whatever I produced at this point would not look nearly as good as Cowboy 316's carving, which is first rate!

I stitched mine rather than lace for two reasons. #1, I wanted some practice on stitching, and #2, I've never laced anything!

Keep it up Cowboy, you're doing an excellent job! JD     

[cowboywc]

Good lookin job JD.
WC

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Looks good, Jd. I like the tri-bolt assembly, that's one of the best designs.