Archive Project and Start Date Announced!
Posted on 12/16/2009 by tandy leather
Leather artist Charlie Davenport has pulled out one of the most requested patterns “Lord’s Supper” by Christine Stanley from our archives to do as our first step-by-step project. This Tandy Leather/Craftool pattern pack, first available during the mid-60s, has been pulled from the archives and scanned into .pdf form. The entire pattern pack will made available online starting Saturday, December 19th on our website www.tandyleatherfactory.com in the eBooks section for $12.99. The epattern includes (cover art, 2pgs of Al Stohlman’s tips on figure carving, full size tracing pattern and photocarve, and tiled versions of the tracing pattern and photocarve to print out on 8.5”x11”paper for your convience).The step-by-step lesson schedule will be:
Monday, December 21st – Wednesday, December 23rd
Christmas Break
Monday, December 28th – Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
New Years Break
Monday, January 4th – Until completion.
He will be working through this project daily, answering your questions and posting his progress with photos and step-by-step instructions on http://tandyleather.wordpress.com
The following are some of the techniques that will be covered during this project:
Cutting Leather
Design Transfer
Leather Preparation
Carving Line Elements
Tooling
Modeling
Coloring with “Eco-Flo” leather dyes
Finishing