Out of practise - leather tooling (pic heavy)

[Indoorsout]

Decided to do some leather tooling. After all, it's been a while but hey, you don't forget how to... Oh bugger, looks like I need more practice! The design is from a free 'steampunk' pattern download from Tandy Leather and painted in bronze and silver and antiqued a little with 'hi-liter', dyed with Eco-flo Med Brown overall and sealed with 'super shene'

Still have to do the strap, it's cut and waiting for me...

 

[gabrielo]

that´s a brilliant work there!

 

[Toadflax]

Looks good to me. Thing I find with leather work is that you get so close to the leather that you see every tiny blemish and think it's a major fault.

But just look at any 'professional' piece, and you realise that you're probably better than you think. I certainly realised this when I saw some of the belts being made by a professional saddler at a show I visited earlier this year. Imperfections give it character.


Geoff

 

[Dreadhead]

+1 to what Geoff said! it's looking great and nice box stitching too that drives me up the wall when i have to do it

 

[crosslandkelly]

Really nice work.

 

[Indoorsout]

Thanks guys

 

[Angst]

thats rather groovy m8....very nice!

s

 

[grey-array]

I love that piece there, not looking that rusty to me ^^
Yours sincerely Ruud

 

[Robbi]

thats lovely is it a reel case ?

 

[Indoorsout]

Not a reel case, although I guess it could be I made it because I'd never done a round bag before and wanted to try it. Thanks for all the great feedback!