Here is how I carved the tudor rose in the bracer:
This is some of what you need:
Theres some leather punches, antiquing wax, resoline, a small wooden mallet, a sharp knife, a grooving tool and of course some leather.
I've printed a pattern and scribbled on the back to help transfer the design:
The pattern is then taped to the leather and transferred using a hard pencil:
You can just see the light pencil marks here:
I've damped the leather by running under some lukewarm water. And then I use an edging tool to chamfer off the sharp edges.
wherever there is going to be an edge is taken out with a swivel knife. I guess any thick bladed knife would do but the swivel is much easier to keep under control.
Here;s the cut design
I'm not sure the best technique but I'm going to start from the middle of the rose..
The centre will be embossed with the wedge shaped shading punch and the round punch will be used for the outer ring:
Here's the punching operation:
The detail on the white rose petals are taken out with a ball stylus:
The red petals are cut with a V-pinch:
For the shading at the base of the leaves I'm using the small shading punch again.
Some of the sharp edges are rounded off with the ball stylus:
U'm gong to raise the design by pushing down the background with the pear-shaped punch and small ball stylus. Not shown here (I can only hold so much in two hands
) is a fine hatching tool that is used to push down the background.
This is using a stitching groover to put an outline on the design:
And here is the finished design. This needs to be set aside until it is completely dry.
The next job is to use the antiquing wax to bring out the design. I'll be doing that at the end of the week...watch this space.
This is some of what you need:
Theres some leather punches, antiquing wax, resoline, a small wooden mallet, a sharp knife, a grooving tool and of course some leather.
I've printed a pattern and scribbled on the back to help transfer the design:
The pattern is then taped to the leather and transferred using a hard pencil:
You can just see the light pencil marks here:
I've damped the leather by running under some lukewarm water. And then I use an edging tool to chamfer off the sharp edges.
wherever there is going to be an edge is taken out with a swivel knife. I guess any thick bladed knife would do but the swivel is much easier to keep under control.
Here;s the cut design
I'm not sure the best technique but I'm going to start from the middle of the rose..
The centre will be embossed with the wedge shaped shading punch and the round punch will be used for the outer ring:
Here's the punching operation:
The detail on the white rose petals are taken out with a ball stylus:
The red petals are cut with a V-pinch:
For the shading at the base of the leaves I'm using the small shading punch again.
Some of the sharp edges are rounded off with the ball stylus:
U'm gong to raise the design by pushing down the background with the pear-shaped punch and small ball stylus. Not shown here (I can only hold so much in two hands
) is a fine hatching tool that is used to push down the background.
This is using a stitching groover to put an outline on the design:
And here is the finished design. This needs to be set aside until it is completely dry.
The next job is to use the antiquing wax to bring out the design. I'll be doing that at the end of the week...watch this space.
