I am sure you all have seen my new Avatar

Ace Lungger · September 25, 2009, 07:27:18 PM

Howdy Pards, Well I finialy got my picture taken:

So I want to give credit to those who have added to it.
First, I have to thank my wife for taking the pic. Then I have to thank the guy that threw away the cowboy hat that I dug out of the trash and cut it down and made a flat top. Then I need to thank a friend of mine that bought me those boots in Mexico 20 years ago.
I need to thank Johnny McCraey for the grips I have on my guns. I need to thank TW for pushing me to keep going, checking on me ever day to just let me know that people cared!
And last but not Least: I want to thank every member on here that has helped me in so many ways, I would ask a question and I would get a answer. What a great bunch of Pards!!

Thanks so much!
ACE

cowboy316 · September 25, 2009, 07:42:01 PM

well ill be all this time here i thought i was talkin to just a regular guy i didnt know i was talkin to the real Doc Holiday Ace my friend dont get me wrong but your a damn sharp lookin guy and your wife is a lucky women and a good one to have by your side with your toubles hats off to ya buddy
Cowboy316

Kid Terico · September 25, 2009, 08:02:33 PM

Looking goodfor a young feller.

KT

Johnny McCrae · September 25, 2009, 08:11:47 PM

Howdy Ace,

That's a mighty fine looking picture there! Straight out of Tombstone. Your lookin' good!

Gun Butcher · September 25, 2009, 09:09:18 PM

Durn Ace, you look the part down to the last whisker Pard.

Ten Wolves Fiveshooter · September 25, 2009, 09:14:54 PM

Howdy Gents

What a great picture it is, Ace looks like old Doc himself, and all that leather work he did himself, my Hats Off to Ace, Ace you've come a long way since we first met Pard, you can be purely proud of your self, you've come a long way in this craft, and I just want you to know , you make me proud.

Your Pard

tEN wOLVES

Arizona Cattleman · September 25, 2009, 10:32:34 PM

Lookin Good Pard.....

Cattleman

WaddWatsonEllis · September 25, 2009, 11:01:39 PM

Ace,

I really, really llike your new Avatar ... the old one was of a man who had a slow fatal disease and was resigned to it.

In the new Avatar, you show yourself as alive, alert, still curious about life and ready to do what needs to be done...

1000% improvement!

GunClick Rick · September 25, 2009, 11:14:34 PM

Dang it ACE,there goes another pair of glasses~~~~I just got new lenses too

Jou look like a bad Ombre ameeeger,let's go scare up some tequila and rowdy weeemon.

JD Alan · September 25, 2009, 11:53:35 PM

You're a right hansum dog there Ace!

Marshal Will Wingam · September 25, 2009, 11:55:02 PM

That's a good pic, Ace. It's nice to see the real hombre in your avatar. Lookin' good.

Dr. Bob · September 26, 2009, 12:09:21 AM

Oh man, I wish that I looked that good!

cowboywc · September 26, 2009, 12:38:05 AM

Howdy Pal
Good lookin picture. Great lookin leather.
Now I'll know who to look for when I pull up.

Get ready to do some carvin....See you a week from Monday.
WC

Major 2 · September 26, 2009, 06:37:49 AM

Quote from: Dr. Bob on September 26, 2009, 12:09:21 AM
Oh man, I wish that I looked that good!

I donno Doc..there was that British Lady that was pretty smitten with you

Good shot there Ace

Ace Lungger · September 26, 2009, 06:59:48 AM

Thanks Pards!

Just wished I could give myself a shot in the back on a shoot day, so I could go shoot! Thing about leather work is that it is very rewarding!! Nothing like taking a plain peice of leather and turning it into something useable and to be pround that you did it your self! TW, you know I wouldn't of made it with out you! I make that statement not to take anything way from the rest of you Pards! All of you have help me so much, but I have a long way to go!!
The wife realy makes fun of my hat

I told her, when she had a couple extra hundred she could order me the real deal

I don't think that is going to happen

Later Pards
ACE

santee · September 26, 2009, 07:17:38 AM

Great avatar, Ace.

JD Alan · September 26, 2009, 07:46:24 AM

Ace, if you can, how about a close up shot of that hat. From the picture you have posted, it looks good. Anyone who can modify a hat, then still be able to wear it has some pretty good skills. I could modify a hat, but no one would want to wear it afterwards $:-\$

Forty Rod · September 26, 2009, 12:23:01 PM

Ace, you're lookin' good. (Don't let that go to your head. I didn't say you were good lookin'.

) Very proper for the time and place we all wish were still around.

Glad to see a real face to go with the name.

Bodie Bascom · September 26, 2009, 04:01:18 PM

Lookin' good with all that fancy leather and purdy guns. You gonna change your name to 4 Iron now?

Bodie

Ace Lungger · September 26, 2009, 06:10:55 PM

JD, That hat was UGLY, the guy that was throwing it away bought that hat in the 50's, It was so Ugly I had to keep it in a paper sack! It had to be cheap, the sides were sewn to a strip that ran down the middle!! There wasn't any way to shape the top so it couls be worn, so I marked up from the brim 4" all the way around and cut it off! Then I made a pattern of the circle, and cut out a peice of heavy felt 1/2" bigger all the way around and gluded a 1/4" fold over and sewed it!

Bodie, No I am going to keep my same name. You would think since I live about 35 miles from where Wyatt Earp was a US Marshall in the first Cow Town in Kansas that I would of made some handle around him, but I allways took a Fancy to Doc!!

So it allways will be
ACE