Spider

This is sweet. Love it. Just love it.

Thanks alot everyone. This one is a great showoff piece. Especially since my coffin wallet was bought right from under my butt. A dude asked to sell it to him and he was willing to pay what I was asking for it...so....he has my wallet now.

Since I was going to the gallery to show off my "Suffering" piece I did not want to go in with a plain'ol Dayrunner. So I made this organizer cover to hold my date book and notepad and businesscards. I rushed on this one so I made it between projects at work...lol Sorry, too many details to not show them all.

I have to agree. This was planned and executed very well and the end result shows that. I surely want to see it weathered.

Very nice looking work. Don't knock yourself. It looks great and can only get better.

I love this. Great work. I love the colors too. My favorite.

Thanks guys. I'll post more as I make them.

Is it ok to say FREAK'N AMAZING!!! Ok then that...WOW

Funny cause I read plain plain plain and then looked at the pics and saw a dragon hiding. HEY!!!! Great way to do plain KK.

Thanks everyone for the props. I believe this is my best piece yet. I have another idea for another gallery for December and I will hopefully work on it soon.

Hey Schno, I think it's 1-2 oz. Thanks for the comment. I have a few pieces to post soon.

Dave, This a truely kind jesture on your part. I'm sorry for your loss. I know that this is a time to put yourself into your leather because the creativity and emotion will flow. Love the pens. Do you make fountain pens too? Email me please. spiderflesh@att.net

Ok, it's been a while since I submitted and I appologize but I hope to make up with this. I submitted this piece to a gallery in Venice, Ca. called The Grind Gallery this weekend (www.thegrindgallery.com). After talking with Tom he reminded me to post where I have received tons of support. THANKS TOM... ok here we go... The piece is called "Suffering" and it's made of leather on a framed mirror with silk roses as a trim. I started with a resin skull head and cut a piece of leather. I soaked the leather to where it is flexible and pressed it on the skull. Using my fingers I pressed the leather through the crevises and details of the skull while blowdrying it with my wife's hairdryer. This allows the leather to cool and set it's form. Blowdrying can really take a while and I go from hot to cool temps on the dryer to dry the piece. Don't forget to blowdry the inside of the mask also. I started with the "Good" side and this shows you the size of the mask. Next I grabbed my cosmotology head and wetformed the "Evil" half in the same manner. The next step was to overlap the two faces and cut the faces to overlap about 1/2" to give me enough room to stitch the two together. The next step for me was to add my horn to purtrude from the back and glue it in place after. I initially wet the leather to allow it to stretch and then forced the horn as far as it would go. After blowdrying the hole the leather shrunk around the horn. The leather, as you know, creates great friction to hold the horn. Next is the application of the red for the "Good" side. I personally started with the dark color cause i feel i can be carefull and then with the light color I don't have to be so careful. I can just go nuts with the antique as I love to do. After finishing the color on the "Good" side I began on the dark details on the "Evil" side. After my dark details are applied I add my "Tan" antique gel. I LOVE THIS STUFF!!! My goal was to give it an aged look. Like something that was just dug up. After the color was applied I decided that more black was needed in the mouth and then the leather was trimmed around the border to make the frame size smaller. A detail shot of the "Evil" side. Notice the glitter glue on the brow. She's pretty huh? Now this is the leather mounted onto the framed mirror and then the silk roses were applied as a finishing touch. I hope this shows another side of leather work for all the great artisans on this awesome site. Feel free to email me any questions or email me on my website so i can add you to my mailing list "Web News" and let you now of new events and items i make. Keep it up!!!!

Kevin this looks great. I can totally see this in some entertainer's house or a rocker's. Keep it up brotha.

This is really nice. being a bag lover i totally dig this.

Yeah I do like this. Good to see people still wearing these cause they are so fun to make.

Thank you Ken, I love making unusual stuff. I get bored making the same thing over and over. Or is it that my attention span is......wait, what were we talking about? lol jk WTF?!!?!?!?!? So what's happening with the....oh nvm, I'll call you and get all the details. lol

Thank you

Travis, I would love to come over for Anarchy Wednesdays. I'll finish my run at the fair since it's on Wednesdays, in October I think. I'd love to see more of your wallets T. They are soooo nice to look at. Tom, yeah he does do great work. He does alot of model work and wants to do some with my bike and some models. um...well...I might just have to let him. lol I even think he wants me in the pictures too.

Tom, You are lucky we can not curse here or I'd express how much I appreciate this tutorial. I will get you on MySpace but make sure no kids read it. This is awesome though. Did a great job not only designing, producing, fixing and explaining your work. Great job!!!

Kimber, These are cool. yeah masks can take you away. good looking results though. Keep at it.

Keep at it. You are doing great.

I do like this. Clearly not traditional but nice non the less. I have to say that my work is clearly not traditional so I say GO FOR IT!!!

This is a great looking piece. wow

Hi Monti, I like the look of the strap. As for the burnishing I've heard that water or even spit helps to soften the leather to be burnished. I saw a girl once licking her belt and then burnishing it. There is also edge coat which goes on like paint to cover the edge and hide any seams. Let's see some more of your stuff. You will surely find tons of info here.