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Tao

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About Tao

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Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    USA, or where ever the Navy sends me.
  • Interests
    Carving, painting, dye, and spending as much at the leather shop as the wife will let me.

LW Info

  • Leatherwork Specialty
    Trying new things
  • Interested in learning about
    Braiding edges and painting leather
  1. Look great! Are you doing an all in one over the design? If so are you having problems with it blasting into resists? Just wonder.... I love the doodles!
  2. Tao

    Square Coasters

    Looks Great!
  3. Pin up doodles that Storm is going to help me get better doing!
  4. Looks good, I like it. How are you going to do the dye?
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    Stuff by Tao

    Stuff I have done
  6. Sure first decide what you want to do, if its boards then lay them out. Make the long straight cuts. I like to then use the tip of the stylus to open them up some and make the cuts deeper, if you hold it almost flat on the leather and push the tip in that helps. After that decide where you want to cut the lengths, and repeatcuts and trick with the stylus. After that I like to make the knots, use a small back grounder and punch them in, the E294 makes a good impression for knots. Then comes the fun part make the grain cuts. You want them to flow, think of the knots as rocks in a stream and try and think how a current goes around them. It seems to help me. Look around find some wood and cut high lights to match, try and vary the depth of the cuts, deep flowing cuts for long ones and shallow taper cuts to add detail. This is also one place where you want to resist the temptation to keep adding more, some of the best peices have like 3 cuts. After all that is done take the stylus and use it to put nail holes at the ends of the boards. Use a spoon and a cut at the edge of a board to make a split, and thats about it. Try a few practise pieces and then dye. Good luck and keep the wrist loose as you make the grain lines. Joe
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    Mick Jagger

    Looks great! Thanks for the info on the hair.
  8. Can't wait to see it, was so excited I checked today!!
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