22-02-15
So I finished the tooling on my leather belt today. I'm pretty happy with the outcome. Next I've got to make the holes for hand stitching.
Full belt
Shark
My initials in a sort of anchor design
11/02/15- Okay so today I made a pattern for the back of the belt onto tracing paper which I then transferred to the leather. I also cut the pattern in with a swivel knife.
Here is the design I drew. The water is flowing out a Cuthulu/Zoidberg like sea monster before turning into waves.
I transferred the pattern onto the leather.
Cut the right side using a swivel knife.
Cut the left side.
I'm very happy with the pattern and look so far. Sadly that is all I had time to do today.
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So I recently made a helmet with a wave design on it taken from a famous Japenese painting the 'Great wave of Kanagawa'. After making it I remembered I'd picked up a cool looking rusty belt buckle from Tandy leather store and decided it would make a nice design to use with the buckle.
Here is the helmet and wave design:
Here is the buckle:
So I have made a start. The leather I have at hand was very thin so I decided to double it up, sticking it together to stitch after I have tooled and d