I don't mean little slips that can be fixed or covered up. I mean, pound your fist, cuss and throw it in the garbage "rurnt", as my grandmother would say. I don't really have a complete count, as my spreadsheet doesn't include personal stuff or the most recent work. I figure in the 8yrs i've been at it, I've made close to 100 holsters, belts, sheaths, cartridge slides, pouches, bags, etc.. Which isn't really all that much but I have only ruined one, a holster that I made too small for a Ruger Bearcat, back when I first started. It was ugly to boot. Until today. I was going to use the Ghormley "Jesse James" pattern but by the time I got done with making adjustments for the Cimarron S&W #3 American, I didn't use any of it. So here I am with a brand new pattern, cut out two of them to make a crossdraw pair. Decide to try a new serpentine border stamp and that beader blade I got from BK. Went south right off the bat and only got worse from there. Should've practiced with that beader blade but I didn't. The harder I tried, the worse it got. At first was just going to finish it and see how it turned out but I couldn't stomach it. For the first time in 8yrs, I turned around and threw a holster in the trash can. That Mexican loop I just finished was some of my best work. Now this. I did decide tonight that I'll finish it and use it for experimentation with aging processes.
Went back later and stamped out the other one no problem.