TomSwede

Really nice work and innovative closure. Design is also nice :-)

Someone said pure magic...I totally agree! Amazing eye for detail and great touch to realize it Tom

Thank you very much :-) Mostly busy with tats and all around a business *sigh* lol ;-) Tom

Hello all, strangers and old friends who was once used to see ma around! Computer takes too much time and trying to keep the jobs coming in so I am not very often in here. Endless hours of mail consultations about work and PR makes me wanna be off the puter as much as possible and try to also produce what I preach, lol ;-) I work mostly with tattoos theese days, living leather art ;-) Heres som stuff that came out this year Best regards Tom in Sweden

Looking great Roo!!!

Haha guess where I picked up the tip to use yoga mats ;-) Thanks mate, the mats are great :-) Was it also you that used wheelbarrels tiretubes for solo seats, just sewing it in flat and let the nipple poke out so that you can inflate it after stitching done? Gotta try that sometime!! Tom

Thanks Odin!!! I used the same pattern as the original seat but I couldn't use the old cover so I made new patterns using a the sort of plastic that you put under floor tiling. It behaves alot more like leather than paper and is somewhat transparent so first I draw up the panels on the foam and then pin this foamsheet onto seat and trace the lines onto it and get the panels. It is rigid enough to lay onto leather and draw cutting lines then. Customer wanted the original foaming but I did put a layer of yogamat on top of the old foam to make it a bit more rigid. The side panels are thinner cow leather so had to be really careful because it wrinkles easy in the bends when you lace it. The owner was very pleased with it :-) Tom Thank you very much rumblestiltskin!!!! Tom

Great looking bags John!!! Tom

Recent seat that I made specific to customers specs. The seatpan is the original HD Crossbones plastic pan. it was a bit nervous making it because I was afraid to bend it out of shape when I streched the leather around the edges. because of that i did the final pop riveting and streching at customers garage. Got a perfect fit. I'm not overly pleased with the beveling as I didn't get it all that even that I'd like, more practice on walking the beveler :-) Over winter we will fix up his bag to match the seat. Tom

Very good looking work Edvin!!! Håller med Tina, utmärkt forum att trivas på och en otrolig mängd kunskap samlad och delad. Ingar frågor är dumma frågor så bara ösa på!!! Tom

Looking really good, nice lacing! I hope the whisky was good too ;-) Cheers!! Tom

Great looking seat !!! Tom

Thank you Odin!! That is nice to hear, I do have the ability to do courses in my business license and have an eye onto it but at the moment focus is just on getting the leather out and grow more with the tattooing. Tom

Thanks Sis!! The belt was a day when I had no inspiration for carving and a friend of mine had set up me up with a granite block for carving in my girlfriends home so gave it to him. Easy fast and fun, hard to come up with nice carving designs for belts some times. Cheers!!! Tom

Beautiful cases John! Just love the croc case, wonderful lettering!! Hope all is well in beautiful Xiamen!! Tom

Thank you very much David and Phatdaddy!!! There be more things undergoing the knife very soon :-) Tom

Hey all! Spending allready to much time at the computer there is not much time over for the board at present but thought I'd share some stuff anyway. Starting up my own business, learning to tattoo, building up my own tattoo studio, new family situation with my girlfriend living some 4½ hour drive from here there sure are hectic days sometimes. I can't belive the amount of mail conversations some people need to establish the simplest tattoodesigns like finding a nice font for a name to print. Sitting at the computer is starting to sickening me and same with photoshop and drawing. Unpaid hours that customers most times fail to understand. How are you all, sure hope you are fine and still enjoying "The magic Of Leather and the Art Of Making". Cheers from sunny hot Sweden and a many times hilarious and hectic life in my shop with the tattoo guns aswell as an increasing demand for leather. Ladies jewellry and seats are the thing for the moment and off course tattoos. Browse all the pics by visitng the blog at http://blogg.1eye1.se Tom Lifted rose beneath Wallet below Replica of my own bracer that was ordered by Japanese customer below Wings and feathers earrings, only leather Work in progress for necklace Living leather :-) both below

Oh and thanks for all the kind words:-) Much respect!!!

Hey, better late than never ...I hope! That looks really great especially considering the poor and scarred leather you have to settle with. I love using ancestral or cultural heritage in my art and maybe I will come back to that now that things are taking shape aroundthe businessand I have more input over the designs. Seeing the strap adjustment on another strap was especially nice, it does look great alltough on the fly adjustment is not a term for it ;-) I hope you keep up the good work and get your hands on more leather! VBest regards from Sweden!! Tom

Hi Lucas!! You are absolutely right. Just put it in reverse. I used as allways with acrylics a black acrylics that was diluted down to a grey wash wich I used to create shadows under the beak. That's all, the rest is done with Eco-flo black antique but first I seal it with Fiebings leathersheen. Too bad the eco-flo is no fun to work with on the sheened surface but some dabbling with it eventually get it done. Tom

I'll reply later today :-) Have to go somewhere for a while. Tom

Haha dunno how I got this old...running owards forty feeling like 25...eh well, maybe no simemes ;-) I like Machine head alot so had to ask and speaking of...they've been in the game for qutie some time too. Thank you Glock21!! Acrylics are waterbased so just add water and dilute it thoroughly and paint it on in washes. I'm doing lots of wwhite at the moment...soooo tideous to cover the same design for 8 bracers in a serie. I use fiebings leathersheen to seal it. First layer I do really thin to don dissolve the paint and then I do 2 - 3 thorough coats and let it dry in between the coats. Thank you very much Lucas :-) Tom

Thanks Luke, 49 more and they be perfect Cheers Thank you very much LNleather!!! We're all noobs once upon a time, actually I often feel like a noob when I start my projects like wallets and have to think it through really hard before I get going. The sewn pockets that keeps the cards in place need some considering. Thank you Trapdog!! Thanks machinehead!! Tell me...do you like the band Machinehead? Awesome band! All customer required was 14 creditcard slots and HD eagles...told him I don't wanna reproduce HD stuff. Not adviceable if you don't like going to the court so I told him I had found a really cool eagledesign where the eagle claws through the leather and got thumbs up and freehands on the layout for the interior. I really liked to work with those eagles, the coloring was made with washes of acrylic paint and sealed with Fiebings leather sheen. Actually I just finished a duplicate of this one yesterday but the interior is designed for keeping money and no pocket for change. Thanks for viewing all!! Tom