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I did it! I wanted to do this as a personal assignment and to work on my carving and highlighting skills. This was my very first completed carving project, start to finish. I did however alter some of the materials. I was NOT about to use carriage bolts on this with simple thin straps for the back. Instead I made a rolled handle and a flat folded arm strap and then used cut tacks to put them on. Much more period! Anyhoo, what do you think?

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I don't think your carving and highlighting skills need any work. How did you get the different shades on different areas? Did you have to dye/antique/stain/highlight each area individually? That's a beautiful piece.

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Thank You! I resisted the light areas with varnish then antiqued the whole thing. Different areas of the leather came out different shades (besides the highly textured background and resisted areas) for a nifty effect that I wasn't expecting. I'm very happy with how it turned out personally, but have gotten alot of guff for it being a tandy design (from some local Larp'ers) but I haven't seen anyone else attempt it...

Being able to complete it really boosted my confidence in tooling as well, even though I don't do the real deep carving *yet* :biggrin:

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Thats a beautiful piece Tangent. The color is very stunning.

What diameter is it?

Ken

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Thank You! The full diameter of the targe is roughly 24 inches.

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Very cool. Is that the one pictured on the tandy site, or one inspired by it? Either way, its quite good. I've been tempted to try the design myself.

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I did it! I wanted to do this as a personal assignment and to work on my carving and highlighting skills. This was my very first completed carving project, start to finish. I did however alter some of the materials. I was NOT about to use carriage bolts on this with simple thin straps for the back. Instead I made a rolled handle and a flat folded arm strap and then used cut tacks to put them on. Much more period! Anyhoo, what do you think?

That's your first completed carving project? WOW! I dont get into the celtic designs much myself but that is really, really nice. The coloring really sets it off. Thanks for sharing the pictures and I hope we get to see more of your work in the future.

Clay

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Thank you all!

Azmal, yes, it is the one on the Tandy site. Give it a go! It was a fun project for me, but very time consuming. Now that I know more about what I'm doing, I can make these type of projects much faster.

I love Celtic art and really enjoy tooling it. I'm really trying hard not to limit myself just to celtic, I am also working on figure carving as well.

Here is another Tandy inspired project that I did as a wall hanging.

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That is really gorgeous work, and I totally understand what you mean about loving Celtic work. I find it very hard to get interested in doing anything else!

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Thank You Holly, and the shield on your site is AWESOME!!! I LOVE it! Is it for SCA? Or is it RenFaire? Either way it is gorgeous, right along with the rest of your work!

And thank you ALL for your nice words! I'm so used to being nitpicked about the tiniest little goof or tool mark... Sometimes I don't think people understand about something being handmade.

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Thanks :) My husband, the model :biggrin:

The customer is in a LARP group, non-SCA. He provided me with the regs of his group, and I worked with that. If I had it to do again, I'd do the outside edge differently (setting it on with upholstery tacks was mostly a wasted effort and not much more than frustrating!)

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