Tooled Sporran. critique needed!

[Dreadhead]

cheers fellas really appreciate the comments here. iv'e got to say i do not enjoy making 'modern' styled sporrans like this but atleast i could put some tooling into it and make it unique. once xmas is over and i have some free time i will be making more of the soft sporrans based on the culloden pattern. was given a load of brown and red seude the other day and have tons of beautiful honey coloured leather too for vibrant bags should be fun

 

[Corfe]

You're an artist, Hamish, and you're going from strength to strength. Lovely piece of work.

 

[woodspirits]

lovely work Hamish, and it keeps getting better! curious, do you work on board or do you have a land workshop?

 

[Dreadhead]

thanks guys. Steve i work aboard the boat. i have set up the bow as my workshop. i have 3X3 square feet to stand in between the stove and a chest of drawers full of finished and half finished projects where i keep my tools and dyes etc too. tis cramped but does me fine and i get to work with a view and on a nice day can open to cratch cover up and work pretty much outside in the bow.

if its a nice day tomorrow i will try and get a decent picture of my setup

 

[Niels]

Awesome! Very impressive bit of leatherwork that.

 

[Dreadhead]

cheers bud

 

[Bardster]

Thats an excellent piece of work hamish. Good stuff. sealing the leather after dying can stop the colour bleeding and would have given you a truer purple, but i think your right that it looks good as is. I have been using the new ecoflo pro water dyes and am very impressed with them, i dont think you will have a problem with leaching. but again i think you should leave the inside plain.

 

[Dreadhead]

Thats an excellent piece of work hamish. Good stuff. sealing the leather after dying can stop the colour bleeding and would have given you a truer purple, but i think your right that it looks good as is. I have been using the new ecoflo pro water dyes and am very impressed with them, i dont think you will have a problem with leaching. but again i think you should leave the inside plain.

i painted the green with eco-flo water based dye. and the thistle top with eco-flova purple stuff. then i painted on 3-4 coats of super sheen resist. THEN i went over it all with the light brown oil dye. it has worked in the pasdt using eco-flo antique gel but for some reason the oil dye went straight through the resist on the purple areas. but it doesnt look too bad so i have learnt my lesson!

 

[Baggy]

I no nowt about sporrans, but that is beautiful work

 

[IanM]

Writing in the spirit of being constructive, I think it should be 'BOT a glove'. 'Don't touch a wildcat that is not wearing gloves'. I.e. if you annoy me I will scratch you badly. Bot is Scots for 'without'.

I am not Scots though and perhaps that particular wording is what your client wanted.

Really nice though and I rather think the colour is an example of serendipity as it works so well.

 

[Dreadhead]

Writing in the spirit of being constructive, I think it should be 'BOT a glove'. 'Don't touch a wildcat that is not wearing gloves'. I.e. if you annoy me I will scratch you badly. Bot is Scots for 'without'.

I am not Scots though and perhaps that particular wording is what your client wanted.

Really nice though and I rather think the colour is an example of serendipity as it works so well.

you are correct. i looked up the crest and it said BOT a glove, but then some versions had BUT a glove. so i referred back to the crest he sent me and it had BUT so i went with that. if he wants it changed i can easily change the U into an O. thanks for noticing that

 

[IanM]

Not me but my Scots wife. I was drooling over the pictures and had to show her the skill involved and she commented about the spelling and explained the meanings.

I thought I should mention it in case it was an oversight.

 

[Dreadhead]

Not me but my Scots wife. I was drooling over the pictures and had to show her the skill involved and she commented about the spelling and explained the meanings.

I thought I should mention it in case it was an oversight.

thanks yeah you are right and i will go back through the designs and double check and maybe correct it to bot afterall. need to sleep on it i think my brain is fried from so much lacing (been lacing xmas gifts all night too!)

 

[fishfish]

krikey hamish,ive seen some fine stuff youve made over time but that is museum quality the kind of thing kings dream of. speachles.

 

[Dreadhead]

cheers bud appreciate it

 

[Treeborn Wanderer]

Looks tasty as always me old mucker. You sorted a testimonial page on your site yet so I can leave much gushing compliments on the sturdy pieces you've made me? See from the olde Facebook your getting a good few commission enquiries too, good times man!

 

[Tor helge]

Amazing work there "Bukken".
As we would say up here; Jævlig bra.

Just one question; why did he want a thistle?

 

[Dreadhead]

Looks tasty as always me old mucker. You sorted a testimonial page on your site yet so I can leave much gushing compliments on the sturdy pieces you've made me? See from the olde Facebook your getting a good few commission enquiries too, good times man!

aye hopefully rockwell will get his patch today hes landed me a few commissions tis handy indeed. will sort out testimonials page later on bud

 

[Dreadhead]

Amazing work there "Bukken".
As we would say up here; Jævlig bra.

Just one question; why did he want a thistle?

Mange Takk Tor

The thistle is the national flower of scotland; very patriotic so it makes sense to have the thistle as the flap. i have made other sporrans with thistles on them before but not in this mordern style

 

[Treeborn Wanderer]

aye hopefully rockwell will get his patch today hes landed me a few commissions tis handy indeed. will sort out testimonials page later on bud

Nice one man