I have a question for you all-

As most of you know, I am in a living history group called the Renaissance Scots Living History Association. Throughout the summer, we travel to all the Celtic festivals in the midwest region. Last summer, I started giving leatherwork demonstrations. It was my first summer, and I only did a few. This summer, I will be making a reproduction of this:



Left is my design, and right is the original. I'll be using this project as an opportunity to give demonstrations on tooling, and to show the different kinds of leather- particularly the elk hide that I'm using on the back, and to teach about finishing techniques- dying and edge finishing.

So my question is this- if you were to see one of my demos, what information would you be most interested in learning? History, techniques- anything you can think of that would be of value to people who know nothing about leather other than what it's made of! Any and all ideas are welcome.

And there is one more thing. On my new FaceBook page, I posted a pictorial guide to the technique I use for edge burnishing:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id...9454&aid=16175

Any comments or critiques on this would be helpful, too.

Thanks in advance!!