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hey jolie, i have made lots of masks, so here is my take on the process......i always use thin veg tanned leather...1mm..i think this is 2 or 3oz for you. I soak the piece of leather in warm water until the bubbles stop rising...this is about 1 or 2 minutes. For a full face, the nose is going to be the hardest part, so what i do is grab the leather in two hands and vigorously work the leather up and down...hands going in opposite directions. I do this for a good 5 minutes, moving my hands around the edges, so the leather is worked and stretched in all directions. What this is doing is breaking up the fibers in the leather is it will be easier to work. You will need to stretch the leather where the nose will be...so grab something that is small and rounded at the end..(round end of knitting needle...end of spoon) and push from the back until the leather stretches into a good size bump. Dont worry is it looks strange because you will need the excess of the bump to press down over the nose. Now place on the face mold that you are going to use and start pressing down with you fingers. I find fingers work great at first and then maybe go the modeling tool to finish. I use sewing pins with the balls on the end to hold the leather in place while it dries. Place the pins away from the face otherwise you will get holes in the leather that will be seen. When the leather dries it will hold its shape. I think i may have a go at this today and will post some pics of what i come up with. The pics below show the modeling head i use and a pic of a full face mask that i have made. hope this helps. cheers caroline

bob bassett does some amazing work.....http://bobbasset.com/

stunning!!

looks like a laser print

Pics a bit fuzzy but it looks good....are you coming to Dimensions in Brisbane?

Welcome ben...great forum and great people.....you should check out http://www.dimensionsinleather.com/ this is a leather conference that is held every 2 years in Brisbane....a really great experience for leatherworkers. cheers from geelong, victoria

stunning!!!!

nice tooling, the wood grain turned out great

Hey watersnake, welcome ....from geelong vic

Sorry to hear this news, another great saddle maker will be missed.

wow, great video...some amazing equipment....i wonder how much the pair of shoes cost?

Here's a link to a nice tutorial on how to draw Leaf Script. cheers http://www.igraver.com/drawing_leafscript/

sweeeeet!

Glock, the black one will attach by putting the top bit under the tank console and the bottom will have a hole drilled at the bottom to be be attached when the seat is attached. The tan one is for a trike that will have two holes drilled in the top to attach, but it also has magnets to keep the bottom in place. cheers

Denise there a couple of programs that completely clone or ghost your harddrive to an external harddrive...Norton Ghost or Acronis. I use acronis and it does a backup every night. If my hard drive dies, i can install a new HD and then just copy everything from the backup....Acronis makes a complete clone....therefore there is no need to reinstall anything....you would be up and running as if nothing had happened! I started using this because hard drives just dont seem to last very long and i got sick of reinstalling everything.

Here's some fonts i like to use...

Roger, we have a member here that does amazing braiding with horsehair.....her user name is 'horsehairbraider"

I think its amazing...i have enough trouble braiding leather! The two colors together are very nice.

hey chris, yes it is. Thanks again for the referral!

Now, i thought this was superb!

Here's a couple of tank straps i have just finished. The two-tone one is for a trike that is owned by a disabled rider. The symbol in the middle represents 'optimal health' and reminds him to always do the best with what you have been given. His trike has a false tank (the real one is under his seat) that has a flap that allows access to the tank for storage and the strap with cover the access flap. The black one is for a 1977 harley fatboy. cheers from downunder.

beautiful!