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OMG, don't make them something I can spin into something else I can't do, LOLOL. Seriously I did learn something, and I'm actually thinking of molding a bottom and will sew on up to the top. Just not today :-) Cheryl

That is awesome, Bobocat.

Very Nice....People post all kinds of things on here I would never think of made in leather. Cheryl

Way nice, actually totally amazing. Cheryl

Hi Rick, I'm sorry I didn't respond earlier because I forgot to hit watch topic. I posted this kinda as a joke because trust me, it was way out of my skill set. I took your advice earlier, and bid on a set of the old LC journals including lucky seven and figure 8 but was outbid. I wrote it down when you told me about them and started looking. Then I recently bid on Tech Tips, leather carving, and a set of Al Stolman books but was outbid again. This was advice from another LW. I may not seem like it at times Rick but I listen to everything that people tell me on this site, well unless it's confrontational. What you say is right, I am all over the place. I'm like a kid in a candy store right now and trying to learn everything. I'm not making excuses but my whole life is like what you see here. I have an attention problem, they are trying to treat it but it's hard at my age. I flit all over the place in real life too. I'm not making excuses, it just is what it is. I wouldn't 'flame you' because you didn't attack me, you made suggestions about my work. And I am going to keep at it if i can just find something to focus on again. I was so focused on that eye I didn't do anything else. Then trying to get the rose right. After that, I had leather and no direction. Actually Tandy has some free patterns you can download and I put a bunch in my 'basket' and then forgot to download them :-( That was around Christmas. So a lot of them dealt with Christmas stuff. Honestly though I wasn't looking for pointers on this. I was just making fun of myself. I jumped in, without thinking it through and got exactly what you would expect...an unusually shaped piece of leather not god for much except 'unmolding.' I appreciate you writing and again I'm sorry I forgot to watch the topic. Sincerely, Cheryl

Well here I have this gorgeous (to me anyway) molded box lid, and I removed the box today and I think perhaps there's something wrong with the design BESIDES the fact the top will wrap 1/2 way around it, LOL

I am a firm believer in THAT Ray, LOL

Ray I can tell you I pay attention to everything people say, honestly. It gets tucked away in my head then I have to look for 2 hours to find it, but I do listen. I've seen your work so it would be silly of me to ignore what you say. But I'm afraid I don't pay well :-( Would a penny for your thoughts work? LOL. Cheryl

Well I didn't put any finish on mine yet, was waiting to see what you did. I did what I thought you meant, but I didn't get a tree into it. So I did try and this is the top if my first molded box that's finally about dry, and I wasn't expecting either to be perfect. Actually Sienna's picture came out so good compared to what I thought it would, I had to keep it. Anyway this is how I did the mountain, clouds and grass. Not nearly as realistic as yours Mike, but still it made me think so The next one will be better. I love your idea of making a background tool so I'm definitely going to do that. I just got leather and a swivel knife last Saturday so I feel like I'm very rich. I'm going to save your picture and the tools you used in my folder for the next time around. Thanks for all your help. Cheryl

ok Mike. I am pretty much finished with except for burnishing so I hope this is kinda what you had in mind.

Thanks Kevin, I have plenty of scraps now. Someone told me to contact yaklady but I can't find her in the member list anymore. What a talent, I wish she was still here.

Ok Mike I think I understand what you mean except when you say put the tree in the foreground, do you mean the foreground of the hill or the horse? I hate to sound dumb but I want to make sure I do it right. I can draw all of those things I don't need a background tool, well unless you mean like my camo. Well the only tree I can really draw, or I guess I've ever tried to was a pine. I'll use my stylus to draw those things, actually have some of pics on here of the Vermont mountains. well can look out my window and see them. Wait that won't work because would be using the mallet on it. Mike my tools consist of the 6 you get in a package from Tandy, a 3D mare and foal, a horseshoe (because that's how I sign my initials) a basket weave, oh and lets not forget the rose. That particular one is a favorite of Kevin's :-) Actually everything you mentioned could be done with my camo and beveler. Even Thrash's clouds if I tipped it. And I have denim to burnish with. But it this going to make it a little busy on an approximately 7 & 1/2" x 7 & 1/2" inch piece of leather?

Bevelers? LOL. I have to B197 that came in my original starter kit almost two years ago. I beveled that spot to death, along with the other I'm attaching. I went back over it with the rounded end of my stylus a gazillion times and tried to bevel it better. I do hold it that way but at times it wanders out of the cut line and takes a trip. Maybe I'm not cutting deep enough or more likely clean enough around those parts. As you can see they're both rounded and small and I haven't used my swivel knife but a few times. I know that's the meaning of swivel but I don't have good control of it yet. Is there anyway to repair those before I dye it?

That would have looked nice Thrash if I hadn't taken a perfectly good picture, beveled it to death, then when Syl told me I had the back longer that the front, tried to cut it as square as i could from the piece of leather I had it on and no room for them now. I just need more practice with my tools. Fortunately I'm not going to need the whole horse and may be able to use from below the shoulder across to below the hips. Actually though, as much as I love going for the artistic, I meant tooling of some sort. since I may just get disgusted with this, I am going to try my basketweave between where the legs are and then just let it fade out after a few rows. If I'm going to mess it up, as I think I already did when I beveled it, might as well mess it up good, and get some practice in :-) Thanks for writing. Cheryl

Thanks Kevin, I was going to use dye on it. I did bevel it yesterday but not well, pic attached. I guess I wasn't clear, do you think I should tool something into the background? Or that just the horse is enough? I cut it as square as it's going to get because Sylvia said it was longer in the back, so I drew the hooves down to see how far off it was. That part will be cut off. Thanks, Cheryl

I love some of the boxes people do on here so I decided to try and mold one with bricks. I decided I wanted a picture of my horse as the part that folds over the front. I cased a piece of leather last night and started as soon as I woke up today. I figured I'd have to draw it several times to get it right. Plus she was tied to a rail in her halter with a saddle on and I didn't want either in the picture. So when I finished and LIKED it, (some mistakes that will disappear with beveling around her and a background) I now don't have a clue to put in this 'other' huge area. I'm attaching the leather and the pic I drew it from. Any ideas for this, any at all? Thanks so much, Cheryl

Wow, what a great shop. Cheryl

Thanks aaron. I just happen to have a large supply of nails....I used to think they were LW tools, LOL. Cheryl

OK Rook, here's the way I see it. You've shown us two of your works so far and both looked so professional they could have been machine made, except you're are better than that. Are you messing with us about these projects being your first or second. I hope my 99th looks that good. Beautiful Work

OK Rook, here's the way I see it. You've shown us two of your works so far and both looked so professional they could have been machine made, except you're are better than that. Are you messing with us about these projects being your first or second. I hope my 99th looks that good. Beautiful Work

After I posted it, it dawned on me it was probably a compass. I am too old and been out of school too long. But it will be handy if I want to cut out some coasters, etc. Thanks, Cheryl

I'm practicing with my basket weave tool, and went to YouTube to Watch George from Tandy do it again. When he used the wing dividers I thought I had seen a pair of those in a box of stuff a friend sent. I went and what I'd seen, but I can't figure them out, or how you would use them. The Arms do loosen and tighten with the little screw, but what the heck do you tighten the left arm too? Thanks, Cheryl

Of course you don't need it. Neither did I. Yet you again get to be the person seeking out some where you can be negative. Why don't you just not respond to my posts? I haven't asked your help, I don't want your judgement, I don't follow you around and attack you, or tell you perhaps you should think before you say mean things. I try to stay as far away from you ferg as I can. Why can't you do the same thing and give me some peace? Cheryl

Mikelv, If you were here for any other reason than to SPAM people you would understand we don't spam on this website. No one wants your bracelets here, fit to be worn as a necklace. We have policies in place if someone wants to buy something, and you ain't even close. And don't go all Chinese on me and act like you don't understand this message. We are LEATHER WORKERS, not snake oil sales people. SINCERELY, Cheryl