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The Pioneer man and woman look weary from traveling across the prairie.  She is in a long dress and bonnet.  He is carrying his rifle while wearing a cowboy hat.

This silhouette pattern is great for making unique yard art, using in scrap booking, making a stamp or any of a number of uses!

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This cowboy on horseback is part of the Pony Express.  Use the entire silhouette as it is or with slight modification you could make it into just a cowboy on horseback.

Use this shadow pattern to create unique yard art, for scrap booking, stamp making or any of a number of projects.

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This cowboy is in the middle of a shoot-out.  He looks like he is hiding behind a trunk of treasure with a jug o' whiskey sitting in front of it.  Poised and ready to defend his loot, he is aimed directly at the outlaws disturbing the town.

This cowboy shadow pattern / silhouette pattern has many uses.  You can make it into yard art using your jig saw/scroll saw, use it for scrap booking, create a card, make a stamp....etc.

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From material cut from discarded one gallon tin cans, an ingenious  craftsman can make many decorative projects such as candle sconces, paper-napkin holders, desk sets and small racks and trays for various purposes. Ideas can be obtained by visiting any well-stocked gift shop.

In using tin for this work, no attempt should be made to imitate the design and finish of projects made of better metals. Instead, the style should resemble in simplicity and directness that of the familiar Mexican tinware. Edges can be scalloped and rounded backwards slightly with pliers. Geometric designs can be sketched on the cut-out parts freehand in pencil, then indented in the metal by making a series of punch marks close together. If continuous straight lines are desired as part of the ornamentation, they can be indented with a sharp screw driver.

An excellent antique finish may be obtained by baking the parts in a hot oven for 20 minutes and plunging them into cold water. This must be done, of course, before any soldering operations.

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Lamp shades can easily be recovered by the craftsman at considerably less than the cost of a new shade. Parch ment shades can be attractively covered with cloth which is cut to fit, sewed, and then glued onto the parchment with ordinary liquid glue. Decorative borders can be made with colored gimp of the type upholsterers use.

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