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I do a lot of this type border around inlays or to break up a large area of basket stamoping on round things like rope bags and rope cans. I put in the border I use on a lot of these too. I scribe my borders inside and out, and then stamp in the rope stamp impressions. I normally start on the outside for wider borders or tighter arcs. I think these cans have a 15" circle or so. I used that pattern to make this arc. I line up the first row of impressions with the legs just barely overlapping, They will overlap more as we work in. If you start on the inside of the arc, Murphy's law says your impressions will be too wide and not meet when you get to the outer row. Mu…
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First of three little tutorials on how I lay out basket stamping. This first one is using a template to establish the angle. To make a template, I take a piece of firm scrap and lay out a base line. I stamp one row, then a row above leaving off one impression until I have a triangle. I marked the outline on the scrap of how I cut that triangle. Depending on your stamp and your personal amount of overlap, that exact angle can be different even with the same stamp. Next I took some rectangular scrap, cut in a border line and lightly beveled the inside cut. I took my template, layed the flat side on the cut line, and scribed the angle line in. Next step was stamping alt…
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Here is another way I lay out angled baskets. Actually this is the way I do most of them now, especially for strap work. It involves no templates, and the angles may be just a bit different for the same stamp than my template method. First off, I make a light horizontal impression to establish a stamp width mark in the corner. I exxagerated the impression a bit for illustration purposes. I set one leg on this mark, and the other end of the same leg on the base line. This is my first impression. I then use that angle, setting the next impression against the base line and lining up the leg with the previous impression. I stamp an entire horizontal row. I then line up th…
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I've been using a standard set of Tandy Alphabet stamps for a few years now, but I think I use them enough to upgrade. I'd be interested to hear if you folks have any suggestions to look into and see if there are any that are notably nicer. thanks
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Just got my new set of steep angle smooth bevlers from Barry King. When I compare to recent project with my textured craft tool bevel I can barely notice the bevels with the new steep angle. Am I using the steep angle bevel wrong or is this how it's supposed to look?
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Hello! This is only one example but, for example, I can see how I can take a modern, cheap F918 stamp (a figure-carving stamp like a camouflage) and modify it to be more like a vintage one if I had a very thin file (and maybe my slow speed grinder, too). I could sharpen the ends of the little metal lines (and maybe round the end over a bit more with the grinder). What kind of files do you/they use to tweak thin lines on stamps? I heard that even Barry King "used his coarsest checkering file" to customize a special order, vertical lined thumbprint for a guy. I wonder what a checkering file is like... like if it's made for the purpose(?). At first I kicked my…
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I could not figure out what forum topic I should put this in so here goes. Anyone have resources for classic leather stamp designs for drawing online apps such as Procreate, Illustrator, etc.? I would like to create my leather pattern but also work out the tooling beforehand in Procreate before committing to the leather itself. I am fully aware of being able to use any pattern, transfer it to the leather, and use a swivel knife to carve that out. But most of us still use stamps on top of that and this is what I’m looking for. Any my help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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I have a landscape image that I am attempting to carve into leather. There are mountains in the rear, and a ranch name in the foreground which is the focus of the scene. But the predominant feature to fill in the space is to be the sagebrush that so frequently covers open land in western Wyoming. I am looking for a stamp that can help make this a reality. Any ideas out there?? PLEASE and thank you!
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Hey all, Well the title kinda says it all: here and there while I’m actively stamping, a thin milky liquid will rise to the surface. Yes, water rising probably means that I’m casing too much, but that’s not the question. I had thought that perhaps I hadn’t rinsed the soap off thoroughly from cleaning the leather before working it, but then I noticed it even when I hadn’t cleaned it first. Wish I had a pic to show, but it’s not something I think about when it happens, and I have yet to find rhyme or rhythm to encourage it. Thanks for any insight. —AZR
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I just designed a logo so I can start stamping my work. I have a line in the logo that is 2.8 pt, so before I go any further I just want to make sure this will be visible/clear when stamped. I'm new to stamping so any help is appreciated! Thank you!
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