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This is a great place to post pics your latest work. Please understand that as the threads get older, we're going to move the topics to the area they "fit", for example, bikes or holsters, just to keep this section manageable, and help the newer folks find lots of pics of the subjects they are interested in. If I have moved your post to the wrong area, please TELL me so I can fix it. Please don't be upset when I move an older post- it actually helps more people to find it. It also helps when we use descriptive titles. "Recent Projects" isn't as likely to get clicks as "Harley Saddlebags and Seat" or "Civil War Holster and Belt". To post your pics, use the "browse" …
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I have been into leather crafting for a few years now but only recently got into belts. Started out mainly making knife sheaths and holsters. I have cranked out a couple of belts with standard basket weave patterns. This is my first attempt at tooling in a pattern. I got this pattern from Joe Meling from twentythreeplus.com. I am extremely happy with the outcome. I need to work on my decorative cuts but all in all I thing it turned out exactly how I saw it in my mind. Made it for a buddy of mine I grew up with whose dad use to do leather work making belts and the like. Just thought I would share.
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Lace in the middle
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Yesterday I finish sheath crafting own freshly made knife.
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Just put the antique on a Silva Fox pattern of a cowboy enjoying a coffee. This one forced me to get better at folds in fabric, seemed like 1/2 my time was doing folds. I have heard not to use "it was a bad piece of leather" to justify a poor result, This piece was done on a bellie, it tooled differently all over the piece. Bottom right was firm and uppper left was spongy. For me the cost makes up for the aggrevation.
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hello all tryed my hand at a making a freind a leather birthday card, along with a home made box. any thougts how to make better? after seeing some peoples work thought maybe should of matted around the letters but, only after was fully done, not sure if would damage the letters if I did matting.
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These are practice pieces for a class on learning model spoon use. These were fun and pleased how much can be done with a spoon. Fun to be doing some figure carving again it has been over a year. Been doing stamping and a little basic tooling.
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My work hat had a cloth camo band, it needed leather. The hat is beat, kinda like putting fancy rims on a Pinto.
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I'm getting ready to go back to work again after a break and would like to show off this ukulele case. Perfection it is not, but labor of love it is. Like many loves, it looks terrific as long as the magnifying glass stays in your pocket. Al Stohlman's instruction on making a guitar was used for this. I even visited Tandy's leatherwork museum in Dallas the see the master's work. All in all, I think the project stacks up well. The front carving is from a photo I took in the Arizona's Superstition Mountains of Weaver's Needle. The back carving is a self-portrait done by my brother, Tony Alderson, who loved to hike "the supes". He's been gone about 25 years and the baritone …
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Bicycle seat #2 was done using the same wooden mold as #1, but cut down off the back as the seat is smaller. This seat is closed cell foam cast on a plastic frame, so I used a PrimeStitch pneumatic stapler with 1/4" staples to fasten the leather. There are plastic frames pieces that also hold the leather in place as seen in the bottom view picture. Again used 2-3 oz. leather because I thought 1-2 oz. was just too thin. That required three tries at getting the pattern right so the leather formed into the stronger curves of this seat. You can see the seam on this one is closer to nose than the first seat, which had a shallower curve. 1-2 oz. leather may not require any seam…
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