JDFred

Very cool nice work

I’m pretty heavy handed when writing so I like a 12b pencil.

The shadow around the snowflakes matches your edge which looks really good. I think your struggling with that problem a lot of us have, looking to close at our work.

Turned out beautifully! Even the shop looks good after you got done with it.

Well done

Looks awesome. I can’t wait to see it with knives in it and the lights on!

Turned out really nice. The diamonds in the middle panel really tied the other two together well. Your letters turned out awesome as did the bass. The splotches in the dye look good, they make it look like shadows on a lake close to the bank. Good work.

I have used a steam iron with success smoothing out chap leather. I didn’t have any shrinkage but I was flattening some hand sized pieces out of the scrap box not larger pieces. I used high steam setting and don’t let the iron sit in any one place. Also check how hot the leather is getting pretty often if it gets too hot that is where the shrinkage will come from.

I meant to post this long ago but forgot… I bought the stylus type hair blade form Tandy and when I got it home and out of the box I noticed there are set screws that hold the blades in the stylus so they can be removed and put into a swivel knife if you want to. It also comes with the allen wrench to loosen the screws. I don’t know if other brands will do that but it might be useful info for someone else who had my original conundrum.

Those are pretty cool I really like that floral corner.

Nicely done.

When you get around to it.

They turned out really nice good job.

They look good. I like the red background on your floral.

Thanks for the tip on oil sprayers I didn’t know they existed . I’ll have to try one I really liked the way the cooking spray went on. This was more of an idea of opportunity I needed to oil it and I saw the can. Then my thoughts went to maybe this would work with an airbrush. I wasn’t thinking about other ingredients in cooking spray so yeah maybe not the best idea but the keychain was for me so if it failed no big deal. Once again this forum has pointed me toward a better way to go with and idea thanks.