TomSwede

That was really cool Storm!!! Love the richness you got in the colors. Seem like you're finding your way around with the eco-flo stuff. Tooling looks just great, the mtif is great for tooling!! Tom

Ha ha I can just laugh in pure amusement over this one!!!! Very impressive and massive, love the detail with the ball and the smaller details like the inlay just above the snaplock and the good looking bottom with what I guess is the carvers name inscription!!!! Awsome!!!! Tom

Very nice and cool sheath!!! I like the fine molding!! Knife is made not far from where I live. Tom

Very wicked and cool dicecup!!! I love the distressed and rugged look. Tom

That holster looks very nice and clean, I'm partial to DCknives opinion on inlays but the full overlay ostrich with it's cool texture gives it a massive impression. I'm sure it'll just look better on him with boots and all!!! Great job!! Tom

Excellent Bobocat!! Happy new year!!! Tom

Ha ha that is a great gift!!!! Gooood looking toilet seat!!! Tom

That is a really cool carving Mick Jagger Storm!!!! Love it!!!! Tom

Thank you Bobby!!! I tried to keep it clean but also had to meet with budget so not too advanced patterns and tooling was demanded. Right about the need to adjust it. This one is not for anyone that need to adjust on the fly BUT I have never ever seen a guitarist that does that efter finding the right position with a certain guitar model. Dude needs another strap next time he gets a guitar. Pretty common to see guitarists change guitar on stage though and allways has a strap that is specific to that guitar. Tom

Ha ha another Swede!!! Cool, tjenare!!! Thank you very much!!!! I have a shirt but apperently don't use it ha ha Friggin hot day that was...eventually had to plunge into the Gävlebay. Where are you hanging around...my instinct with no clue at all tells me NordUppland?? Tom

That looks cool. I like the pattern. Looking forward to see more!! Tom

Those look great Andy!!! The pear shader is an underestimated tool when it comes to backgrounding. Tom

Any progression with the bracer?? I'm just curious!!! Tom

Thank you very much!! Andy, save your bucks and make one yourself!!! Tom

Does anyone have a microscope to borrow???? This man is asking for critique Oh boy, your work stands out as usual!!!! Tom

Have you checked Tandys??? They should have what you need for more basic work. Ohio travel bag seem to be popular for cool hardware too. If you are in US? Tom

Thank you so very much all!!!! Iam very happy to see how well received it is and that you all like the adjustment. I thought alot about overall design and to keep the tooling simple and a simple elegant border that was not beveled and not stiched. This is a basic design and if I sell more customer can choose between stitched or beveled border for a standard fee as extra option and with the extended strap for Erik I can also work out standards for that as an extra option. He really likes it Joey Ramone style!! Courses....would be fun ;-) Tom

Thanks ETW!!!! Yeah I thought the tri-weave had a spine-ish look too so perfect for anything with skulls and bones!!! Tom

Thank you very much Storm and ClayB!!!! Glad you liked the skull. I found it in a tattoo flash art magazine and fell in love immedietly. Erik allways has a cap that is similar to this cap and off course long hair and loves skulls so it was just sooo fitting. Natural leather looks very nice against black. I try to convince my heavy metal brothers to buy this solution instead of white on black but they just go...-no no no!! Hope this can change some minds. Would save me some agony with acrylics and spare some money on customers pocket (for future orders, lol). Tom

I got totally free hands with this one. It was ordered by end users mom for his birthday. She couldn't provide me much info his prefs so had to guess on dimensions and such. It is 4"+ wide (12 cm). Tha adjusting strap has some additional trickery with a neat but not so fast adjustment by string solution and blinged with a Tandy iron cross/skull concho. I made one row with the triweave stamp wich gives almost a little spine structure I think and brushed off my old tecnique with antique color on a red bottom. This time I decided to try it with eco-flo black antique and previously I use Tandys mahogany for this effect. Sealed with some leathersheen from Fiebings. The main strap is Fiebings pro oil black with a rich coat of Fiebings Aussie leather conditioner and two topcoats of Fiebings leather balm. It's the first time I try both techniques on the same item but think it works fine since I clearly wanted the smaller strap to complement the main strap in it's own style. Owner loved it...phew. Just gunna replace the adjustment strap with a longer one, apperently he likes to play the guitar on his knees!!! What else?? Dunno...just too darn tired..oh I had a hard time to keep it totally free from scratches...soo big and had to flip it over several times, punching lots of holes, measuring, setting eyelets...phew. Lowered the price some to compensate for it. There are some really big scratches to the side of adjustment strap...those are big scars. I love scerred leather, makes it look like the live material it is and with heavy metal customers you won't hear many complaints abut it..promise!!! The skull was painted with diluted black dye to create shadows. Very hard to get it even. Comment and criticize...The best way to learn!!! Thanks for looking! Tom

I would like Santa to rent the Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi North Sweden (google for it, really cool in the words true meaning, drinks served in iceglasses) and bring over the whole leatherworker team and a bunch more people from here and we'd have a bash all together!!! The spirit of X-mas is to share Merry X-mas all!! Tom

It is AWESOME!!!! Really clean and professional looking!!! Tom

Hi Rhona!!! I sure will give you some info on my history with carving leather and how I learned it. Off course my learning curve accelerated alot rhanks to the wonderful and helping people here. I am very tied up with lots of work (mostly my regular non-leather work job) so it may take a few days. If you navigate to my profile you can find links to all my topics and posts right under the avatar. I think I've posted much of my history here but I do have alot of posts to browse through ;-) Talk to you later and you can allways email me if you like: korpham at gmail dot com Best regards from cold Sweden!!! Tom

HI and welcome to the board!!! Wood and leather certainly is a good combination!! There are tons of stuff to learn and admire here so study the posts and tutorials and dont hesitate to ask for help. People are very nice here and allways willing to lend a helping hand or share a secret!!! We love pics so make sure you can take some pics and show us your stuff...good or bad!!!! Tom