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Hi everyone. I'd like to know your opinion on what type of thread and thickness, as well as needle size to get a realy nice machine sewing stitching on a belt edge. I love the one in the picture made by a Cowboy sewing machine or an Adler 205-370. Thank you all. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EoDm2q4r8L1uVMlTMY16W4AStMCHxVXe/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EoDm2q4r8L1uVMlTMY16W4AStMCHxVXe/view?usp=sharing belt.bmp

An unique collector's book as new from the first edition in 1951. Very large oblong hardback bound at the top by 4 screws (screws not visible from the outside of the book), gilt & white titling and illustration. Book measures approximately 12 5/8 x 24 3/8" x 12 5/8" tall. Numerous drawings, patterns, designs, close-up photos, alphabets, illustrated embellishments, etc. etc. throughout. Most pages are fold-outs. RWR5 Leather Work Projects Carving Finishing Tools Techniques Clothing Leatherwork Handwork Handcrafted Design Industrial Arts Crafts. Book Condition: Like New / It shows light scuffing and scratching to the covers product of the aging process. Not a library copy, not remaindered, unmarked. Please, offers starting from $400. Best offer wins the book. Send a message to: salvimac@gmail.com From January, 1st the book will go to auction on Ebay with a reserve price. Payement by Paypal or bank transfer. Kind regards

Just to let you all know that last week I received at home the first three DVDs from Eric A. Myall's 8 DVD collection: #1 Introduction to the trade -- 18th./19th. Century Belt #2 Making a Hunting Bag #3 Making a Knife Sheath I would like to say that this footage is absolutely brilliant. These DVDs are not only tutorials but an incredible opportunity to watch a real leather artisan manipulating with full confidence straps of leather on his work bench. Eric is a master craftsman taught in England so this can be considered an historic document on the genuine way to work on leather. All contents are explained in full detail. Eric affords every problem of cutting, scrapping, molding, fixing, sewing with imaginative solutions and a different perspective I hadn't seen in any other DVDs before. I think that this way of leather working can only be seen in a real workshop. This is a real leather craftsman working on the traditional way, the original way. The confidence, speed and efficiency with which Eric worked the leather is a sight to be seen. These DVDs lacks of any artificiality. This is a real way to work with leather that astonished myself. In my modest opinion these recordings are simply brilliant. Definitely a must have. If anyone is interested on purchasing this collection here is the contact info: http://thewilliamsburgsaddler.weebly.com/buy-dvds.html or contacting Eric. A. Myall's daughter, Zena at zegirlsdolls@cox.net

Warning to all tustable members of this forum!! «««This guy is a cheater. I paid him 60$ bucks for a set of DVDs early June and never recived it. He doesn't answer to my requests of sending me the scan of a stamped receipt of the USPS shipment»»»

Warning to all tustable members of this forum!! «««This guy is a cheater. I paid him 60$ bucks for a set of DVDs early June and never recived it. He doesn't answer to my requests of sending me the scan of a stamped receipt of the USPS shipment»»»

Dear sir, I'm writting you this email just to warn that I have recently cheated by the user called chazdillon He request the users to contact him by email I think to avoid any tarce on the forums where he sells his footage. At the begining of June I payed him by Paypal a set of DVDs he posted for sale on this forum and the only thing I have received from him, has been a bunch of excuses and lies. Some days ago he stoped from replying any of my polite emails just when I requested him to send me a stamped scan of the USPS receipt. As I don't want to create any alarm on this great website, I have prefered to contact you. I'd like you to block and ban this user from the forums but I understand that this is something you must evaluate so if you need evidences about this case, I can send you copy of my mailing with him as well as the paypal receipt. You can see my profile. I am a trusted user on this forums and I'd like to avoid problems to other users. Thank you very much Salvi Name: Salvi Caracuel UserName: salvi IP Address: 80.24.75.85 Email Address: macsalvi@gmail.com

I'd like to get deeply into motorbike seat making but I can not attend any workshop as I live in Spain. Does anyone know where to learn all these beautiful basket weaving techniques? I mean DVD, books, internet resource, etc. Thank you

Bill, thank you very much for taking time to leave a so interesting and professional reply about how to case properly a strap of leather as well as related to the use of swivel knife. After watching my Jeremiah Watt's or Chan Geer DVDs I'm serously thinking that veg tan leather from US is different from Spanish one because the burnished imprints came out very easily while on the Spanish leather is quite impossible. Don't you think that US leather used for saddlery has a kind of polishing wax that made these imprints come out with certain ease? Anyway I'll try to follow your instructions on casing leather in order to find out if spanish leather reacts in the same way after this casing proccess. About Swivel Knife I think the only blade I have 1/4 is too thin for most flower designs so the result can not be as good as I pretend. Same thing is happening to me with beveling because I have only a beveler that is very appropriate for borders but not for vines or for parts inside the design wich need a more thin bevel. I'm attaching a picture of my current tooling level. It can be seen two different styles: Spanish on the left side and Sheridan on the right. Thanks again for all your help.

Hi all, I'd like to stitch as David Theobald do with motorbike seats. I think the name of this technique is 'Basketing'. Here is a link to David's Gallery. Does anyone know if there is a book or better a DVD where to learn this type of different combinations of stitching for seats? Thank you.

I appreciate very much your advice and as a result of that is the next picture. Two months and a half later I think I am in the way of improving my tooling technique... but it is difficult... practice will make perfect. The size of this project is A4, the left side flowers have been tooled according to Spanish Style while the other ones on the right have been pretended to be Sheridan... The finish consisted of Neatstfoot Oil, Eco-Flo Satin Sheene (not good for this purpose, it becomes sticky with the paste), Fiebings antique finish paste Sheridan and finally Fiebings Bag Kote.

This is the tooling practice of a great Clock face design by King X Custom (thanx mastercraftman!). I started tooling in early March of this year. Please criticise my work. 1st. Carving 2nd. Beveling 3rd. Thumprinting and decoration 4th. More deco and neastfoot oiling Waiting for finishing with antique paste and a sealer.

Wonderful job! Congratulations.

Hello! This is a beginner talking to another beginner. Let me tell you that I started tooling just two months ago but I must say that I have learnt some precious lessons. Buy good books on the style you want to learn or improve (sheridan, pictorial, western, etc). Try to get some craftaids that are very useful when fast tooling is needed and buy some essentian DVDs from Chan Geer and Jeremiah Watt because they're a must have. Anyway I must say that the main lesson I have learnt is that you must change your mind and forget to buy all that I call 'toys', I mean that you must start buying high quality stamps and cutting tools from the begining or you'll get discouraged soon.

Hi, I'm interested on the following DVDs: Jeremiah Watt The Art of Leather Carving and Layout Chan Geer Sheridan Style Flowers Chan Geer Drawing Sheridan Style Patterns Chan Geer Making a Sheridan Style Notebook Chan Geer Fancy Leather Lacing Thanks

I'd like to buy this instructional videos on DVD format is possible.

The flower filigree and basketing has been made in the same way than US tooling that means the use of swivel knife and stamps. The main motif has been reverse painted on the leather flesh side then embossed, cutted and painted. Hope this may help you to understand just some parts of the process.

Hi there, I have tooled a pair of knot Celtic designs on a leather rectangle 40 x 20 cms. that I would like to dye and install along the walls of my sitting room. After measuring the room I noticed that I need at least 40 pcs that is almost a foolish when thinking on carving, tooling and time for a repetitive work. I have seen that there are people making a kind of plastic molds with nylon, delrin or other synthetic materials capable to resist repeated impacts from a mallet or the strength of a press without loosing the shape. I think I could make the molds from rubber, latex or silicone but I don't know what material to melt in to be appropriate for leather stamping. That I want is to pour these latex, silicone or rubber onto the leather once tooled then get the mold and then pour a sinthetic and hard compound to get a kind of stamping bricks suitable for a press. The idea is using new sinthetic compounds able to substitute the old iron molds. Does anyone know the process and compounds I need to use to get a mold and the final stamp brick? Does anyone know if Nylon, Delrin Rod or other used on mallets and mauls can be melted on these flexible molds from rubber? Thank you

Wonderful! You're very creative and ingenious on your art. Thanks for sharing

This is a beautiful Laptop Case made by my teacher and leather master from Spain Don Luis Dominguez Rojas who has developed a lifelong career in Ubrique (Spain) The cover pic is 'La Rendición de Breda (The surrender of Breda)' painted in 1634 by the contemporary Barroque spanish master Diego Velázquez. Don Luis is not selling his art anymore but he has recently opened a blog talking about his ideas also exposing pics from a little part from his art in the Museum that is located at 'Hermanos Bohorquez Street' from the same village. He also doesn't understand english and although there is an email on the related website I must say that he is not very fond of internet. For those reasons the best way to contacting him is by sending me a PM and I'll be pleased to let him know from you and your questions about his leather works. Hope you like it his art.

So well done! Wonderful tooling and painting. What color and kind of dye did you use for the background?

This is my 4th. project. I started leathercrafting just three weeks ago so this is only another excercise to improve my tooling technique. First pic has been taken after carving, beveling and backgrounding. No finish or oil has been applied yet to the veg tan.

Here you are my first and second project on leathercrafting. The first one is a billfold and the second when finished (I'm waiting for the oils, dyes and lacker), folded and stitched (also waiting for a sewing awl and thread) it is supossed to be a little purse, both from craftaids. I'm working with a bunch of Craftools I bought on Ebay but I have just received a set from Barry King that is perfect but I miss a Thumbprint for shading better the flower petals that has been made with a Pear Shader. On the second project I had a big problem with all that cutted leaves because I didn't know wich one tool to use in order to get the proper effect so I decided to work with the corner of a Veiner so the final result has not been as homogeneus that I wanted to be. I started tooling just one week ago and as I live in Spain my only reference has been a DVD from Chan Geer on Sheridan Style that is reasonably different from working with flowers like roses so I need to know if I'm doing well also in the right way. I am very motivated and enthusiastic with this wonderful art so that's the reason I'm requesting for a critic judgement, opinion and advise to improve my technique. Many thanks