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Wow, Kathy, this looks sooo wonderful. I’m sure your neighbours will be thrilled about this great house warming gift. Gisela

Luckily now uploading has worked. Here are some photos from the horsehead carving. Greetings Gisela

Hello Johan, I have made a Google search for Ava and found an information that Ava will be the head judge at the Midwest Spring Leather Show on april 2010 at Michigan City, Indiana. Hope this will help you. Greetings Gisela

I hope I'm now able to post the other photos. I'm sorry it didn't work. I will try again tomorrow. Gisela

Hello Kathy, the picture in the last post is a scan from the carving, which I scanned with 300dpi so that you can better see the mistakes. In the next post I will show 6 photographed pictures of the carving. I'm not satisfied with the carving. Especially the forehead made me troubles. And the muscles and contours of the head didn't work as I wanted. I have tried to make yet some changes, but I feel that the more I change, the more I destroye the carving. On this carving it was the first time, that I have used a Pro Petal Tool. I have two sizes from Tandy in my collection, but have never used them before. I would more prefered if I had pushed the Pro Petal longer into the leather, but it seems as if the leather would then break and therefore I have stopped. Could you please again critize them? I would also welcome if anybody at the forum let me know how I can improve. I will also put my hands on some other tries of your horse eye tutorial in the next days and will show them here, probable next week. Thank you again very much for the tutorial. You had so much effort and I hope I havn't disappointed you. Greetings Gisela

it seems as if I have troubles, with editing my posts. Here comes a scan of my horse head carving.

Hi Kathy, wow, what a great tutorial! It is so kind of you to do that for me. Thousand thanks for them. I hope I can finish the carving on weekend and if it is not too bad I will post a picture here. Greetings and again many thanks Gisela

Hi Kathy, thank you very much for the pattern. I think this works fine for me. I'm looking forward to your step-by-step instructions. Could you please tell me how much I should enlarge the pattern? Gisela

Hello Clay, thank you very much for this information. I have looked through my tool collection and I found 2 line point tools from Bob. They didn't have numbers but I guess this are the one which you mean. I purchased them nearly 15 years ago and at this time some of Bob Tools didn't have numbers. I will make a sample with this hairing technique and show it at the forum. Greetings Gisela

Hello Kathy, thank you very much for taking a hard look on my horse-eye carving. I will make some other samples and will show them again here at the forum. It would be great if you could post a pattern. Take you time with it. I'm happy if you could do that. When it continues a little longer it doesn't matter. I hope I can someday come to the United States again. In May 1989 I had the pleasure to travel to the USA and joined the Jamboree at Prairie State Leather Guilds. There I had the pleasure to met many leather carvers like Robb Barr, Paul Burnett, Kat Kuszak, Darwin Ohlerking, Charles Heschke and many others which names I not all knew. There were several demonstrations which people could watch, but I didn't remember that there were also workshops. However it was very interesting to watch thesedemonstrations and I remember very often at this show. Greetings Gisela

Clay, love this carving. How have you done the hairing on the body of the elk? Greetings Gisela

Dear ClayB, very good work. And the painting looks excellent. I guess everybody wants them. Greetings Gisela

Dear Kathy, here is what I made. I'm not satisfied with them and would appreciate if you could take a hard look on it. Please let me know what I can do to improve it. I would also like to ask if you could make a challenge with horse carving. Maybe you could give us a carving pattern and leave us 1 or 2 months to finish them. I'm not sure if you have the time for it, but maybe you could show us the carving step-by-step? Please, please do this, if you have time for it. I'm so far distanted and can't visit your workshop. So this would be a great help. Greetings Gisela

Kathy, thank you so much for the great tutorial. I will try this in the next days and if it works I will show the results here. Gisela

Dear Clay, thank you very much for the information. I was in search for these tools since a longer time and didn't know where I could get them. I have contacted Ira and will order a set. Gisela

Clay, your mountain lion is stunning. Can’t wait to see it finished. Gisela

Kathy, your horses are just wonderful. I wish I would only half as good as you. The last three are my favourites. Can you tell me the size of the carving? I haven’t done leather carving for nearly 10 years. I started now again, but the results are frustrating. I have to start from the beginning on. I would appreciate if you could make us a tutorial. Gisela

Dear ClayB, thank you very much for the photos. I have sent you a PM. Greetings Gisela

Hi Paul, welcome at the forum. I'm glad to have you here. Your work is amazing and I'm a great admirer of them. I own all your books and lessons and learned a lot from them. I'm also a member of your Everything Burnett Club. I'm looking forward to your new instructions. Greetings Gisela from Germany

I like this work. Everything looks good. Love especially the coloring.

Kiwi, this looks great. Did you made them from suede leather? Greetings Gisela

It was sure a lot of fun to take part on this class. I envy everybody who could take part. Unfortunately Germany is to far distanted to come over for a weekend. But hopefully I can manage it to travel to Sheridan or another leather show in 2 or 3 years. Clay B, if you teach also a workshop during this time I hope I can take part. I will look what future brings. Greetings Gisela

Wow, this looks awesome, I'm thrilled abut your work. Can we see more of your 3-D paintings? Please! Gisela

Tom I love your handbag. The carving and the coloring are wonderful done. Great work!! Gisela

Hi Marlon, Great work. I love especially how you made the buckstitching in different colors. That looks wonderful. The first price is really earned. Congratulation. Gisela