Your First Pieces

[Pandabean]

Was looking through my old leatherwork photos and came across some of my first pieces and looking back on them compared to what I have made now seems be like "I made that?!" and I still have them, not necessarily use them.

So I thought I would start this thread for showing off our first pieces of any craft compared to our latest? Can be anything from knives to spoons.

Maybe its me being sentimental but I like to keep these things.

So here goes:

My First spoons, the large on one the left was my first. Stopped because of a massive knot on the underside, still have this one out in the shed somewhere.

My first proper leather pieces, I had made a small D shaped pouch years before but I cannot seem to find it now.

My first and only knife that I made from scratch, well using and old file and treating it in a home made forge. Not very sharp by any means.

 

[Pandabean]

No one want to show their first pieces?

 

[John Fenna]

Too ashamed to show my first pieces!
Not that I can find them now - I never marked their graves!

 

[Baggy]

Hi all

My first spoons and kuksa, I only just started carving and was amazed to find I can actually make something!

 

[nuphoria]

OK, I have a couple of pics from stuff I made with the green crafts folks last summer at the Electric Picnic. I was crewing for a blacksmith friend and so made this pot hook as my first attempt:

I then made friends with the boys over at a spoon carving tent and managed to make this which I was rather proud of:

You can just about see the crack half way along - did that when locking it too hard in to the shaving horse
As I had already spent hours on it they wouldn't let me throw it away and glued it up for me!
I started from a sycamore log using an axe to get the rough section.

 

[dazcon]

They've been on before, but these are my first knives. Both made at the same time from the same piece of 01 steel.

Dazcon.

 

[Pandabean]

Those first pieces look amazing.

 

[milius2]

That is amazing Mark!

 

[gsfgaz]

The pot hook is tremendous , what a job