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Thank you very much for all the suggestions! I do have material to keep me busy for quite a while now.
I must say I'm loving Paul Burnett writings, not to mention his amazing work!
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Hello everyone!
Have been reading a lot on the past couple of days and this is my first post. Such a great community this is I could find most of my beginner-wannabe questions already answered. Thank you all!!
The thing is I can't rely on live courses to learn. I live in Brazil and haven't found any regarding carving or the craftsmanship side of leatherworking, only industry targeted education, so I must turn to books and videos and I'd like know what you suggest and, if not widely available, where to get them.
Thanks you very much!
Omar
New Guy From Brazil
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Hello everyone!
I missed the introduction forum because I misunderstood the "Member Gallery" title and made my first post on the "Getting Started" forum. Silly me.![:whistle:](https://leatherworker.net/forum/uploads/emoticons/default_whistle.gif)
My name is Omar -- you may wonder what a Brazilian, with Italian and Portuguese grandparents has to do with an Arabic name, and I'm used to that, but hey, we are not culturally attach to names here
-- and I'm 36 years old. I'm into drawing since I was a kid, and I've already painted and messed a little with wood carving. My wife wife works with bookbinding and about a week ago, while researching on materials and techniques, she bumped into a video showing some leather carving in action. She pointed me the video expecting me to like and buy, she knows me: I was hooked!
In the middle of my quest for knowledge I found many resources, great artists and this fantastic forum, which lead me to more incredible resources and artists. You guys at leatherwork.net rock so much I was not able to make an actual question so far!
Finally, today I ordered my first pack of Tandy tools and this week I may go hunting for leather and other materials on local stores, if I'm lucky enough to find the equivalents here in Brazil. Thanks to LuisPaulo, a fellow Brazilian met in the forum, I'm not so lost anymore. Let's see how I do when I go shopping.
A big thank you to all of you, members of this great community!
Omar Colocci