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Very nice work! We had a pair as kids and they were too big, but we all took turns wearing them. We thought we were so cool in our Justins and boot cut jeans.

Beautiful work! Would a little silver on the crown and sword be out of order?

Hi, Here is a trifold wallet I just finished. I call it an Epic wallet because it was quite detailed. Tell me what you think if you like.

I am not an expert by any means, but you might make your background a little more uniform. On the shader you might also try sliding your tool towards the center of the petal and lessen the pressure as you slide towards the center and tap with your mallet to give and elongated impression that follows the petal almost to it's base where it comes out of the rose. Keep doing it and you will get better as you go. I think you did a great job!

After I carved and tooled the design, I used green leather dye from Tandy and lightened it with some water. I did it in layers until I got the green I wanted. Then I did the thin strip that I cut and beveled around the outer edge of the outer knot with Gold leather paint from Tandy. I also did a Gold wash (Gold paint and a bit of water) on the inner knot. When that was dry coated my colored areas with Super Sheen then coated the whole thing with Mahogany antique and rubbed it off, especially where it was painted previously. Then I touched up any areas that needed touch up and coated the whole thing with Super sheen. I enjoyed doing it! I have more wallets I will be posting when they are finished.

Wow! I think you did a great job, especially AFTER the saddle was done. I sure understand about getting the right saddle. I have an old Arab mare that is a bit swayed and I can't put just any saddle on her. KEWL.

BeUtEEful!

This is a wallet I did in a leather class. It is has two pockets on each side for cards and a pocket for bills. It has gold accents on the outer knot and a light green on the inside of the outer knot. The inner knot is highlighted with gold as well. The background is Mahogany. $54.00 free shipping.

Here is a Cetlic knot wallet that I did at Sara's Tandy store in Phx.

Hello, I got a custom order for a wallet from Australia. How did you send it, regular US mail? Was there any problem with customs? Did it arrive OK? Thanks!

Toadally awsome!

Here is another one of the wallets done. It's a trifold with a pirate ship battle that I drew myself. I put just a bit of cova paint on the sails. It was for a Father's Day request. I am left handed and I thought my index finger was going to fall off after I cut all this! I'd go back and do it all over again because it is so fun to see the design come to life.

Wow Electrathon, thanks for the advice. I will try that. I can already see some improvement since I took the class to now. I tried to get the smallest tools I could and they still were big for what I want to achieve. I will get and extra background tool and grind it. Thanks to the rest of you for the comments and encouragement. Jeeperaz, that's the store where I took the basic class. Sara is a great teacher, she will share all kinds of wonderful things with you. Tell her she was recommended on this site by a member that took her class, she will get a charge out of that! I am going to tackle a purse for my mom.

If anyone would like to leave critiques I would love to hear it. I want to get better at doing leather tooling, carving and stitching. I have done drawing and painting types of artwork, but am a beginner at this. Love doing it. Thanks. Here is one of the designs for a wallet that I drew myself and carved it on the wallet that was a special order. They wanted two horses facing each other. That swivel knife is a difficult thing to master. I think the thing just tries to take over! On this wallet I discovered gold cova paint. I watered it down a bit and it gave the horses a gold sheen. I love horses, so this was fun.

I took a basic leather class at a Tandy leather store in Phoenix and this is my first project. I have gotten 6 wallet orders from this project! Thanks for taking a look.