Stamping
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I've always just spritzed my leather for tooling, but I decided to try bagging it after reading about it here on another thread. everything went well on my first session, but when I rebagged my project for tooling again the next day I noticed that all of my shading from my tooling the day before was gone. so does this mean that you can only bag your leather once and for the rest you just spritz like normal or am I hissing some important step? I was taking picturesalong the way, butI panicked when my shading had disappeared and in my attempts to correct the problem I ruined the project. any suggestionx?
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OK, I'd like to tool the upper half of this Rat Fink into a pattern, but was wondering how best to do it. There are a lot of small, close details on this pic, like the teeth and the hairs on the edge of the ears and face lines, etc. that I think might be hard for a newbie like myself and was wondering what advice you all might have if I was to try and tackle this. What I'm thinking about doing is a motorcycle seat and I want to replace the "Sportster '74" with the top half of Rat Fink, this was a practice piece I did to see if I could tool the main pattern, now if I can tackle the Rat Fink part I might use this as my first motorcycle seat pattern, here's my practice p…
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How do you alight properly a small alphabet stamps from Tandy? Either I became prejudiced, or they really are misaligned on their squares... Pure guess work from my side. Thanks.
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http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1035971-Tooling-stamp-idea-sheath-and-knife-pics?highlight=hamon I saw this thread on the Blade forum. I know that I could never line up the hexagon stamp evenly, but I thought some of you might like and try this idea. John
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Does anybody know where I can find a alligator pattern that I can press onto my leather?
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Hi there How do you aling this mule stamp to get a good pattern? Lars J
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Does anyone make a better set than the cheap tandy ones? It kills me to have to stamp something then work on them to get a good crisp letter. Kehl
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This is my first project using an alphabet set. I have been carving out my own freehand style lettering in the past on the few personalized projects I've made. The top of the leather shield needed to fit 14 letters with some spacing in between. Bottom section needs to fit various length last name on each shield. So I had to order a small 1/4" alphabet set for this Firefighter shield project. I designed the layout for this shield to be able to accommodate the top lettering the best.
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Would this set of stamps be OK to use on Veg Tanned Leather or do i need to get a specific set designed for Leather ? i only want to add initials of the person i am making items for nothing fancy . http://www.amazon.co.uk/Piece-Alphabet-Letters-Punch-Stamping/dp/B0053TMO0M
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Just beginning to try my hand at stamping and also want to get into some carving along the way. I expect that I will destroy a good bit of practice leather along the way. I have a fair amount of 6/7 oz. veg tan to use for that practice. But I am really getting annoyed with my early attempts at this. It seems that nothing wants to go well for me. A list of questions/problems/issues: 1. In spite of reading tutorials from here on casing leather I can't seem to get it right. The leather always seems to be too wet or too dry when I make my stamping efforts. I can't seem to time it right. And the leather doesn't seem to dry evenly after wetting. The leather is soaked compl…
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