Making a Brass Hat Strap Buckle

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Hello, Friend,

Scroll all the way to the bottom to meet a couple of new Original Tribe members!

We've made the fur hat from an otter pelt in part 1 below, now it's time to make a brass buckle for the hat strap in part 2. With this hat strap around the back of your head, your hat will never fall off. Brian uses a jeweler's saw, files, clamps, sand paper, and steel wool to make this brass buckle.

If you didn’t see part 1, here it is:

In addition, we posted two YouTube #Shorts this week, that you might not have seen because they show up mostly on mobile.

The first is a coat Brian made for himself. The pattern is known as a “capo” or “capoe” (we’re not sure on the spelling). It’s similar to a capote. By the way, the Australian Shepard is Rosco. He’s a new member of the Original Tribe.

The second #short is of a mermaid that Brian scrimshawed onto a bead made from the tooth of a beluga whale.

And finally, we want to welcome yet another new member of the Original Tribe, three month old Lab-mix Georgia. Here she is helping Max send out this email:

She’s a lapdog for now, but not for long!

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Brian & Max