Welcome. Going to bring you into a very magical part of my rawhide art right now. It's not every day you can get a rawhide image of your man, but I did. I found this incredible plaster cowboy and I thought 'wow, I wonder how long it will last.' It was very thin plaster, so unfortunately, it lasted for one, but after I got it off the mold, I was able to fashion it to really look like Bob. This is Buckaroo Bob. It’s got everything. If you saw him walk into this picture right now, you'd think I shrunk him and laid it down over him at night. It really has an amazing resemblance to him. And he's - you know - down here was his saddle, and he's got his gun, and this part I let be - just kind of not be the main focus. The main thing was here is his vest, his shirt, his eyes, his little mustache, the cowboy hat, and I thought you know to really go with that cowboy theme, I had this wonderful old frame that was built for something and I don't know where we actually found it. So I ended up saying, 'Well, it's the perfect size. Put him in there put the rope around it.' And it really made a wonderful background, because he stood out so far because this plaster mold was like this big around and it was about this tall. And it was really quite something to try and work with. And like I say, after I took him off of that one, he just went into lots of little pieces. So depending on whatever kind of mold you're working with, you can stick around, and you can make two or three, or you might only get one chance.
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