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Had a interesing mistake happen thought I would try some sharpie on the eye added some yellow then thought of using CA glue too build up the eye and make it glossy. Apparently it reacted with the yellow but not the green/yellow or anynother I had on hand didnt get a pic of the eye looked kinda cool but not what Im looking for. But they do or could look like vary realistic blood drops.

Amazing work everything looks perfect love the color contrast. I would live to make a case close to this for my fly fishing rod. A tutorial of how you achieve this would be awsome.

Thank you everyone for the complimentswith and a special thanks to Troy yoir advise saved me alot of time and experimenting. Should have asked what you would use for the body went with the guy from tandys advice and I liked how the antique looked on the hawk so went with it, I also have a 3 year old boy with me half the time so being able to use it inside when he goes to bed is helpful especially with this cold winter

Thanks everyone im vary happy with this one and that dosnt happen that often. Any suggestions for a finish to use? I ran out of supersheen and thinking of going with resolene this will just be a wall hanging so not exposed to the elements here is a bit of progress

Got a chance to get to tandy and grabed some block out and black gel antique

That looks like a time saver what program did you use?

Tried some painting last night did the head and tail. Any advice on how to keep thw paint from gluing down the feathers? Had to go back over and lift them took some of the color out and dosnt look as good as before

Held out for a bit and decided to detail the head gald I did going to try and get painted this weekend. Thanks for the compliments everyone

Thanks Troy amazing job on that piece. What type of paint do you use? I was planning on mounti. it like this hawk I recently finished but not sure if I want to use the white stitches and maybe I will paint the background as well thinking I will use a wood frame any ideas are welcome

Thanks you Tom. Its been about a year since I got in to leather working this is the second piece that ive done like this. But ive been doing some type of artwork all my life. Ive done quite alot of pyrography and find this type od leather work similar

Thanks everyone im pretty happy with it so far going to mount it on a piece of plywood like the red tailed hawk I did but thinking of painting background or having a friend do it never really like anything I have painted

Eagle leather carving ready for staining

Noticed tandy has there pro swivel knives on sale wondering if there worth it? Seems like a good deal. I was thinking the detail one for figure carving and such jist have the cheapo one that came with the starter kit any input would be great thanks

Wow kind of makes me think of Picasso gone punk. Is that one piece carved and sculpted? Amazing vary creative

Thanks for the ideas. Don't mind at all should have put this one in Critique my Work! Mods can move it if they want. I like both ideas will try the skiving idea next go around I can smell what your stepping in sporq.thanks I see what your saying gambler the stitching kinda takes away from the artwork. No one believed me it was leather so I thought the stitches would showcase that but see what you mean I how it draws the eye away from the focal point. Which should be the eye need to work on that a bit too maybe a Lacquer finish on it would help it pop. also I didn't back it with anything like leather puddy or anything will that be a problem? Should I drill a hole in the wood and spray foam the back? I havr to cover the back anyway cause I didn't use a back up wood when drilling the ply and had some wood chip out. any other critiques welcome too.

Rivets in and a better pic should have slowed down and eged the frame better worked out good for a trial run

Another shot opened

Th anks really hapy with it. Second try at wet forming only thing I don't like is the dye job had it lift in some areas came to the conclusion its cause I used eco flow

I used a halloween decoration I had kicking around and hand formed the hood

Thanks everyone Samar I just used the eco flow briar brown highlight that came with my basic tandy kit and some resist on the beak ecoflo coal black on the eye

A wet formed bag just finished up thinking hand bag or maybe a rear fender bag for a bike but would need to come up with a way of fastening

Hi everybody. I've been lurking on this site foe awile now and just got a phone that I can upload some pics This is a carving Im just finishing up. Really happy with the carving but basket weave needs some work 8/9 oz vegtan stitched to pine border is just glued. Thinking of puting rivets to hold the corners cause they are shrinking and getting some gap. Let me know what you think