Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here

[ChurchandSon]

Some of my "road work" from the winter...I build and set-up trade show exhibits
so I'm gone a lot during show season and this stuff helps keep the sanity...I used to carry
a bag of knives to work on at night but too much of a hassle at airports...
Here's my "Gourd Rattle" with a deer leg bone handle and a gourd from lovely brides last year stash..
Counting the beaded drop it's about 16" long and the gourd is 3" tall....



A Strike-A-Lite bag or as I call it my new Sunday go to meeting phone case...
Wonder what the TSA will say about this one?



And I got real bored one night and beaded my new"Body Glove" smart phone case...
Talk about tough going, try beading on kydex!!
I'm mostly deaf, all one ear, 60% other one so texting/e-mail is my communication way
but they don't have to be so ugly....



Good to be home for a while, a lot of new talent here to look at..........Randy

[Cliff Fendley]

Wow Randy, that is some might fine work.

[GunClick Rick]

Man Randy you just keep gettin better,anything's better than banjo though I gotta save up and get somethin from ya for my room!

[KidTerico]

Randy OUTSTANDING work. Just plain beautiful.  I left you a post on your site. KT

[Johnny McCrae]

Howdy Randy,
Beautiful work! A genuine pleasure to look at. Many thanks for sharing it with us.

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Beautiful, Randy. Thanks for the pics. The bead work is really something.

I'm going to move these posts over to the non-cowboy thread since it really isn't cowboy related. These definitely deserve to stay where we can view them. Good work, Randy.

[ChurchandSon]

Thanks Gents, I am beside myself!!  Ya'll make an old dude feel good, besides, VooDoo said "chicks dig guys that sew!!".....

[KidTerico]

I am now happy to say that I am now the proud owner of the two items Randy posted. Thanks Randy. KT

[ChurchandSon]

Thanks Marshal  Will ,and Terry, always a business doing pleasure with ya....

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

Excellent work ChurchandSon


  tEN wOLVES 

[GunClick Rick]

 I am now the proud waaa waaa waa waa neeener neeener
WY I NEVER!!

Randy you ever bead on human skin,i think KT would look good with a deer bone where the sun don't shine and beadwork around his noggin!

[KidTerico]

Hey Clicker quit Boo- Hooing and open your billfold and let the Moths fly out and I bet Randy will sell you something. Got Ya. KT

[GunClick Rick]

I'm savin up for an indian rifle scabbard Baaaaaa haaaaa haaa haaaaa

I'll sell ya a hat for 300.00 

[ChurchandSon]

Finished up another road project which happens to be another gourd rattle...
I can't seem to make one of anything..This one has "Gourd" or Peyote" style beading on the handle..
Time consuming but kinda neat...One bead at a time....Randy

[Marshal Will Wingam]

This one is really cool. I love the bead work. The small ring of beads around the top of the handle where it protrudes from the gourd it a nice touch.

[GunClick Rick]

Darn nice Randy,i like the parflech style art work on the gourd.I would love to send you this one to do your magic on.
Got it at an old feed store antique store,the gal said it was and indian herders gourd,full of seeds that rattle real well
i put the leather hanger on it and it looks like it was painted white at some time and it kind of protected it too,it's right at 30"
long.Think i paid 6.00 for it~

[GunClick Rick]

Randy here's another one fer ya..Forgot i had this one below..

[KidTerico]

Randy I really like that one also. GREAT JOB. Is it going to be for sale also? KT

[ChurchandSon]

Thanks Marshal...This one was loosely done after a stone end war club I saw in a museum in England....It is amazing the amount of  Native American/American Cowboy artifacts  in Europe.....I suppose they kept what they traded for....And also thanks to Mr. Chuck Burrows for inspirations and those great photos he shares....

Rick, ya got some nice gourds....My lovely bride has some "Caveman" style just breaking ground now...

Terry, Thanks, always a pleasure....

[santee]

Dig that hatband and all the beading I'm seeing here!

I bought a fountain pen to class my act up a little. My work shirts have no pockets, so I keep it in my jeans pocket, which opens it up for every manner of disfigurement (keys, coins, etc.)

SO, in true cowboy fashion, I made a sheath for it. Found some distressed leather scraps in my pile and went to town. I've done better jobs sewing, that's for sure.

A fancy pen in a rugged holder. Ha!