We continue through our class with contemporary artisan Jeff Luke. In this video, Jeff Luke walks his students through finishing their bags and preparing them for their next trek!
“The NMLRA bag building class was a success! Thank you to the NMLRA and all of the students who participated. I thoroughly enjoyed sharing what I’ve learned and watching the group turn out some very nice bags!”
Thank you all for following along as we released the videos from this class. It was a bit of a learning experience for everyone involved. The class went very well, with 5 students Jeff was a busy teacher the entire day. We’d like to arrange another during the June 2020 NMLRA National Shoot, if you are interested, please let us know and we will do our best to arrange enough class time for everyone.
Moving forward, we’d love to host more 1 day traditional craft classes like this one. Our education center is set up with several classrooms with the proper tools and equipment to better manage a class like this, we will be sure to move to one of those for the next class.
Throughout the day we talked a lot with the students and Jeff about other kinds of projects that would make for a good class. This hunting pouch is a great project, but we did have to work an hour over our estimated time to get everyone finished up. Ideas for the future include knife sheaths, flint wallets, wallets and more.
We’d like to thank Jeff Luke once again for his work to bring this class to the NMLRA Education Center. Everyone young and old went home with a smile on their face and a new bag they will cherish forever.