Sheilajeanne

AWESOME! Curious to know about the construction. What is underneath the scales? Boiled leather? Or just heavy weight hide?

Need to bleach my eyes after seeing that one! It just goes to show that even very well known actors can make mistakes in their choices of roles! AB, amazing work, as always!

Thanks, Ferg. Hey, your leather room had a lot of machines in it, but you could get around and it was well organized! You know my biggest problem right now? This century home is so small, I am running out of places to put the moving boxes! I don't want to start putting them in the basement because the stairs are so hard to negotiate (narrow, uneven, and you have to duck your head.) The garage isn't safe either as water leaks under the foundation on the west side, and the only upstairs to the house are the two bedrooms and 'powder room', which are already chock a block with furniture! Century homes had REALLY small bedrooms, and no closet space, so by the time you put a bed, a dresser, night table AND a wardrobe on the room, there's hardly any space left! Well, the old place needs some work done before it goes on the market, so I can get it cleaned out at my leisure. It will be more marketable with some of the furniture gone.

Yin Tix, that's something that worries me, too! The former owner passed away at age 96. A friend of mine lives across the road from her, and tells me her children filled 4 dumpsters with her stuff when cleaning her house out. This doesn't count the stuff they sold at two yard sales, or took home with them! I don't want to leave that sort of problem for MY executors!

In case you haven't noticed, most stringed instruments in the orchestra don't have frets! Violins, cellos and of course, bass fiddles!

And in case you've forgotten, here is my current tiny, perfect work station! It shares the room with my desk, a file cabinet, washer, dryer, large dog crate, a large library of books and my Seiko sewing machine!

The purple room is the basement bedroom just across from the craft room. I could shoot the person who put the shelves up BEFORE finishing the wall. Yes, they are VERY firmly attached to the wall with many screws! The room with the red door at the end is another room adjacent to the bedrooms and the craft room. The red door at the end is the entrance to a cold cellar. In addition to this, there is another unfinished room on the other side of the basement that is completely lined with shelves!! Also, one half of the garage has been turned into a heated, insulated area where the previous owner had her pottery kiln. I imagine working with clay creates too much dust for it to be done inside the house. Even the smoke alarm in that room is protected by a dust cover!

Left side of craft room Cupboard at one end of craft room

On December 3rd, if there are no last minute hitches, I will take possession of a new house. The former owner was a very crafty lady, and did sewing, stained glass and pottery. There is an entire room in the basement that was devoted to sewing, and this is going to be my new leather working room! Here's some pics: Okay, need to resize them so I can post more than one at a time! This is the right side of the room.

God, NO! What you are thinking of is a hoofpick, and it does NOT look like that! A blacksmith's knife is something else again. It's used for trimming the sole: https://barehoofcare.com/index.php/product/left-or-right-handed-hoof-knife/ Here are a number of different hoof pick designs: https://www.google.ca/search?q=hoof+pick&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkrNP41fTeAhWMm1kKHaF7AbUQsAR6BAgDEAE&biw=1236&bih=605 I can tell you from years of experience the one for sale on Etsy for $58. is s piece of crap, while the most traditional ones are the best ( the one selling for .75 cents!) for getting the job done. If you've got a hoof that is packed solid with clay, you need something that will give you some leverage to get it cleaned out, and a straight pick does it much better than one that's curved, which will tend to just slide off!

Can't wait to show you my new leather working space...got pictures today, but no time to post them right now! Yes, this means I am MOVING as of Dec. 3. The lady who owned the house had 3 different hobbies, and much of the house was converted to suit her needs. There is a HUGE sewing room in the basement with counters on both sides of the room. The room adjacent to it has one whole wall of shelves..there are SHELVES EVERYWHERE!! Her other two hobbies were pottery making and stained glass. She had half of the garage insulated and heated so she could do her pottery out there. Pictures later, got to run! This change is coming none too soon. I picked up a 3/4 oz. veg tan side at Tandy's on the weekend for just $40, and my current storage space is TOO SMALL - it won't fit in! So, I will be going from a century home that has almost no storage space, to a house that has more than I'll know what to do with!

I need to get a stamp made. I am just wondering if this would work as far as the sort of artwork I need to submit.

Yeah, I've had a few people tell me that! Someone told me that when I bought a difficult horse for $1.00 and went on to win ribbons with her in equitation. Someone else told me that when I was competing with my dog, and said neither I nor the dog belonged in the club. I proved them wrong! So many things I want to do with leather work: a pair of moccasins, wallets, handbags, a training harness for my dog, and, of course, improve my skills with carving. I may even try doing the sort of embossing you and ABHandmade are doing!

I already have two of the Craftool Pro chisels, so I skipped the Black Friday sale, and went to Tandy in Barrie today. I had to go to Barrie to see about an issue with my SUV anyway. Picked up a really nice 3-4 oz. side for $39.00 Canadian.

You are using your pear shader backwards on the petals. The fat part of the shader should go at the top of the petal, and the skinny part at the bottom. You bevel heaviest at the top, then gradually walk the shader towards the center of the flower. That was the very first thing our instructor taught us about using a pear shader...

Funny, if there is someone on this website who sews leather garments, I have yet to meet them! Sorry we can't be of more help. But I'm sure there's got to be a website out there somewhere where people who do that hang out! In the meantime, Tandy is almost always a good starting place for newbies.

So, let me see if I got this right: the prosthesis for the right hand allows her to hold the pistol, and the one for the left pulls the trigger? Nice work! What did you use to take the moulds you show in the top picture?

At 4:25, what is that tool and what is he doing with it?

Lovely work! My dad would have liked that - he was a Mason for more than 50 years!

Would love to see this when the project is finished! What is it, a wallet? And why aren't you letting us see the dragonfly's head? Did that not turn out so well?

I've dabbled in Celtic, and one of my more recent projects was a Tudor rose: Definitely NOT Sheridan...lol!

I would guess they slid it on to the handle before the tube was inserted. How they would then secure the tube, I don't know. It's possible the tube self-locks as soon as it's inserted. Without seeing the whole setup from a distance, I can only guess!

What a great idea, AB! This sort of information is what makes it worthwhile hanging out here!

If you want to go really cheap on the stiffener, I salvage cardboard from cereal boxes! I use it for patterns, too.

I'm thinking "ant" was short for antique @Sheilajeanne. DUH!! Of course! Forgive me for being so dense. I used to teach biology, so 'ant' to me means a 6 legged beastie!