TomSwede

Hey my friend!!! I've been watching and following your progress during 2008 and it's been great to see your amazing development!!! Take a nice break and go fishing or whatever you like to do because you deserve it!!! Tom

Beautiful tattoo Roo!!! Congrats!!! Tom

That is a really cool bag depicting Fenrizulven;-) I like the way you work with antiquing and the lace used to stitch it together makes it looks more authentic. Very nice tooled borderbraid and the tri-weave stamp works great with our vikingage motifs and styles. Tom

Hej och välkommen Freki!!!! Nice to see a Swedish face around here. I was just joking with Tina yesterday about "where is the Swedish competition"! ha ha and then you drop in today. I'm glad to see some new leatherworking friends here in Sweden. I see we have more common interests, vikingage and metal. Your work looks awsome. Since you've been lurking a couple of weeks you may have noticed that this board is a bunch of friendliness and people are allways willing to share. Keep up the good work and let us see more of it! Tom

I use Fiebings pro oil dyes and I dilute the red some. I don't have a recipe for how much i dilute it but I use denatured alcohol. Heres a set of bracers where I used a brush to handpaint all the colours. The red looks a bit more pinkish in pic than it really is. I need the red to be not too dark because otherwise it will be too dark after antiquing heavily. Tom

What do you need to do?? Cover surfaces or paint details?? I've done some white details by painting diluted cova-color white in multiple layers. I imagine that this way it'll stick better because it actually sinks in rather than stay on top + it's much easier to avoid streaking this way. Downside is that it really takes lots of layers to cover and make it look really white AND acrylic sealer should be used since cova is waterbased. Tom

That is one mean badass bracer!!!! Wish it was mine!! Tom

Google for kingsmere. Should take you right to a very appreciated online tutorial. Lots of stuff there. Tom

Waaaaaaaaaay to go Darryl!!!! Excellent and good match to the purse!! You're gonna rock her socks off!!! Well done!! Tom

A very nice billfold!! I like this type of classical hunting motifs!!! Tom

Looks great as usual, very smooth finish. Love the fingercarving! Tom

Wow nice looking collar!! That'll be the coolest looking dog in the neighbourhood!! Tom

That is a really cool snuff can holder Allen! Good looking braid and nice skulls!! Tom

This morning: Best thing that happened to me today was that I didn't have to participate in moving my X-girlfriends stuff from hour home because I cut my wrist open when dismounting the bookshelf... Missed the main artery by juuuuust that little!!!! Judging by all the blood I thought I was in a bit of trouble there for a while he he a wide open gap it was and blood was pumping really good (still have blood spatterns left on walls) and I was at home alone aswell. 4 stitches and nooo carrying heavy stuff for a couple of weeks;-) wich means I do not need to take a sick leave from work nor will I have to participate in the sometimes very heavy work we have to endure...phew. Think it'll be ok to do leatherwork. It was my left wrist and I am right handed. Just not sure what they'll say at work when I show up with a suicide bandage on the wrist ha ha and scar too, lol.... Sorry about the suicide note, no pun intended. Just what everyone will try to tease me about he he but I've been laughing over this all day now. Couldn't have had better timing with this accident, lol. (No pun intended towards my X-girlfriend either- we stand on good foot with each other, it was my brother who got to do all the hard work instead of me) Tom

Congrats Roo!!! You deserve it!!! Tom

I'm with Tim! Looks great and colour is very nice and fitting to the box. Nice job! Tom

Good looking bracer Joe! The Heartagram is sure a symbol that can be seen here and there nowadays. Can't recall seeing carved bracers from you before, is this a change of direction perhaps? Tom

Good finding, thanks for sharing! They are beautiful! Tom

Veery nice Bonnie! Too bad you don't get to do enough tooling/carving. It looks great and you sure seem to have nice painting skills too!! Tom

Hi and Welcome!!! Good looking journal cover!! You can post your stuff to show off rather than proper category and letar on the forces of LW will sort it to proper category if you like to. Tom

Quite a excellent looking belt!!!! Congrats on a well done job!!! Tom

Hello and welcome to this wonderful board newtromine!!! No matter how skilled you are you sure are gonna find some valuable things to admire and learn around this place! I think it's safe to also that the atmosphere in this place is among the best you can find on an internet forum, very friendly and people are allways willing to share no matter what questions might come up so don't be shy to ask about things. Pictures of your work can be posted to show off or critique my work section depending on what you seek. They'll be sorted to the proper category by the forces around here when they have been in show off long enough. For now, take your time, have a cup of coffee (free on the house) and enjoy the site and get familiar with it! Oh one more thing....DO NOT EAT THE DONUTS IF ANYONE TREATS YOU!!!! Tom

Hej och welcome to the board!!! Nice to see some Danish company! Looking forward to see some of your work! Tom

That is a sweet looking seat, very well done and tooling looks great!!! I like the way you handled the dropshadow under her chin. Tom

Coolers!! Keep on moshing (moshpits has hardly ever existed in Sweden). Horns up!! Tom