swinewerx

What the heck are they??

llou went above and beyond, congrats on that!! this shows you do leather work, for, I have not had a customer yet that will do something as extreme as this, Very well done, I hope you never change it, but, if you do, just add more to it!!!!

Christian, Xian, is the best I have ever seen, his work is very outstanding, I often refer many people to him, I only do my leather werx for myself, and the wife, and for my fellow church members, I tend to ramble a bit too much, which makes other people assume I am trying to push my things upon them, after people from other forums accuse me of trying to force them to buy my things, I refer them to Xian, and others, just to get them to shut up. It seems crazy for one guy to have so many chops that are very extremely covered with extremely tooled leather, When I show them what I own, they instantly assume I am showing off what I did for other people's bikes and chops, when all along the ones I am showing are the wife's and my own chops and bikes, that I did go way over board on covering with way too much tooled leather!!! But, for really outstanding quality of tooled leather, Xian is at the top, there are others who are very great at tooling, I just get a little excited when it comes to custom leather creations, and it shows, when I look at other people's motor bikes, I prefer to see the whole bike without a human in the way of the art work that is on the bike, this is where people also assume I am trying to force them into buying my things. I really wonder why people don't like tooled leather anything, it really adds great value to anything when it is tooled up extreme, showing off art work this way!!! I am very glad I am not depending on my leather work for my income, not that it would not sell, it would then become a daily routine, kinda like how I felt about my job I had before I got severely crunched by a car while on the way to that daily job!!! This is where I get to rambling, I did lose half of my brain, and when I get excited about tooled leather anything, which is quite often, I really ramble too much! Kinda like this reply, look at how much I typed about this topic, which I really did not stick with the topic at all!!! Sorry if this irritates anyone!!! I am very good at being a common irritant, just crumble up some anti irritant pills, and blow them my way, and I will ,,POOF! disappear!!!!

Don't dare attempt to sharpen!!! They are antiques! I beleive they are anyways!!! I have one, and prefer it rather than the ceramic ones I have, and ceramics don't need sharpening either!!!

You got my attention!!! I like your work!!!

It is cool , the saddle and holster combo, open carry, is legal in calif, I used to do just that! just don't have any bullets in or near that gun!!!! Overall, that is some very nice work, to me though, that seat is too big!!!!

Looks real good

What I always do is, when the foam is ready, as in , all smoothed out, then, I cut the leather oversized, a bit too much, you are almost to the area of how I make a seat, I make my leather wrap over and go under to be rivetted, I understand the customer wanted stitches! but, either way, after I have over cut the pattern I get it real wet under side as well as the outside! Even though it is too wet to tool, I start forming the leather to the seat, and keep doing this for up to hours, This is a process that requires a lot of patience, Because, I keep molding the leather to the seat, and my way of wrapping under takes even longer, I like to use the wood handles of certain tools I have to get rid of creases, and folds, once the leather is smooth, I let it dry while on the seat, takes about two to three days to dry, then, after drying, You will notice how tight it got! I trim the excess away while only wetting the top grain only with the same wrag I use to wet as I am tooling, then smooth out any other wrinkles, that are just there! and let it dry some more, at this point, drying don't take that long, like a day, then examining the way the cover looks, I then remove it and start my tooling time!! I usually go extreme on tooling our personal bike/chop seats, this will have an enlarging effect on the cover, no worries, after done tooling, and placing back onto the seat just remold it back onto the seat, I love making all of our seats, one piece of leather only, no stitches or seams, but rivetted to the bottom of the seat pan!!!!! I myself have not covered the bottom of a seat with leather, cuz I make my seat pans molded to the frame of the bike/chop itself as well!!! As in, I personally am against spring loaded seats, I ride rigid all the way!!!!! One of my chops is rigid front and rear, I am very disabled, but love my rigids!!!! I hope this helps, I also make the seats with 4 to 5 oz leather, a bit easier to mold it and not have the creases!!! I did one with 6 to 7 oz leather, it turned out great, cuz I got creative and skeeved the under side of the leather where it needed to be molded!!!

Slower, if you have super sheen on it, that is why I as well as others, put our leather out of direct sunlight as well as lighting itself

Have you discovered the way of suntanning your leather,yet? The sun will darken it, as it gets darker, it will all blend in!! Or even a light set up will darken it as well. Amazing how it gets sunburnt, but does not peel!

Looks real good to me, I tend to like tooled items much better, so, your tooled one really looks best!!!! The more it is tooled the better an art piece indeed!!!!

Very nice

a couple more if you have needz, then,, kneed it bad!

For all my chops/bikes, I make all my seats from scratch, if this is "somewhat" of what you want,,think about kneeding bread dough, and whallah

It seems as if you have what most of us get when "just starting out" I myself have learned after eight years of werxing with leather, that it really is not important as to how your embossing lines look, even if they are wiggly, and supposed to be straight! when you go about the process of embossing your image onto the leather, it gets important as to where the beveling shall take place, and, when I am swivel cutting, any wiggly lines are no longer there! I beleive because , when I swivel cut, I actually cut extremely straightand if your embossing lines are still showing, then beveling them away werx, as well as background shading, to "coverup" said mistakes!!! I really observe other leather werxers jobs , and have seen lines that were not "fixed" This is why most of my personal items are extremely tooled!! not just for the "hey!, I am extreme" but to hide any defects that may appear in my projects! The down side of "fixing" mistakes, is when you did the "fixing" on one side, then, the whole thing has to be done this way, and why not!!! instead of redoing the job, just make it more artsy!!!! and tool every bit in the process!!! YEAH!!!! I still do this to this day!!! except when subcontracting,,,,,uhmph!!! a redo is humbling, but sometimes, just has to be done, at no extra charge!!!! All my rejects from subcontracting are hung on the walls of my garage!!! and if I did not use them as filler in a box to help shipping, then , there they hang!!! for as long as I say so!! I feel empathy for the person who has to take said items off of my walls!!! Way too many of them !!!!