Leather cover for gun a stock: how to make a cover that protects your stock and look good doing it.

I have wanted to make a cover for the stock of this flintlock for a while now. To protect it from getting any more dents or scratches. While this is a one off item custom made for a handmade firearm the same techniques can be used to make one similar for other types of firearms. I have seen these used on, and sometimes made these, for shotguns, muzzle-loaders, bolt and lever action rifles. Includes how I made the pattern. How I skive edges for a mitered seam and then how I stitch and finish that mitered seam. The dragon pattern was drawn to complement the dragon shaped brass side plate on this particular flintlock blunderbuss.

Useful leather work tools and supplies (Amazon affiliate links)
Hand stitching needles I use: https://amzn.to/39ivStf
A nice set of pricking irons for punching stitching holes: https://amzn.to/35snEhj
Edge beveler: https://amzn.to/3bliXtr
Gum tragacanth to burnish edges: https://amzn.to/39a62ri
Round knife I used before I made my own: https://amzn.to/39iw7o9
Wing divider: https://amzn.to/3nt77jd
Rawhide mallet: https://amzn.to/2MSCkjr
Strap cutter: https://amzn.to/3q6aluU
Barge contact cement: https://amzn.to/35Hylgb
A more respiratory friendly glue: https://amzn.to/3bpsJuv
Basting tape: https://amzn.to/39kVFRw


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