GypsyWind

has anyone tried to hold stones in place with snakeskin? im guessing that its too thin and brittle to make a good bezel out of, but maybe someone else has better knowladge then me on this =) is bezel the right word?

jah, I liked wearing them so much that I had to take the spikes off and put other studs in there places beacuse it kept tearing apart the silk on the inside of my pirate coat!

was just currious as to if anyone on here is into Steampunk type leather designs, would love to work with some people on some differnt ideas =)

Awsome Mask!, I cant wait to make one, I actually want to get a bunch of leather makers together and have a Masqurade party.. see what kind of masks everyone makes to bring but jah, Great Job sir!

This is my first posting on here so Id like to Say Hello to everyone! I look forward to talking with all of you in the near future I just started playing with the Idea of Leather Jewelery for Vending at the Festivals me and my partner work at, These where my three favorite pieces of the 13 that I made this last 2 weeks. Would love to get some feedback on them =) One of the Stones is crisicola, one is Quarts with black turmalin(?), and the other I am not sure what it is, but it is dark blue, almost matalic with flakes of gold in it. I had some trouble with the Bezels(?), and was wondering if there is anyone on here who could give me some tips or info, I also was wondering what types of glue are good for Leather? I use superglue and locktite, is there a fast setting glue that is mainly used on leather by chance?

Hello everyone! Greetings from Southern California My name is Eli and I live in my 21ft toyota Dolphin RV fulltime with my Beautiful partner Gwen and our kitten Mara, I have somewhat converted the back end of my RV into a very small unorganized leathershop for myself, where I now attempt to make leather jewlery and bracers and bracelts and ths such. Iv been interested in leather for about 3 years now, Someone Gave me about 100 lbs of scrap deer and elk skin leather and about 20 lbs of thicker leather. I had an art studio at the time for about 6 months and was in between vehicals. I had so much fun in thoes few months with all that leather, tearing all the deer and elk skin into strips that covered everything from bamboo peace pipes to photo frames to water bottles. My name profession when im in a place that I can utalize it, is Photography, but now im starting to think and hope that it will be leather for a large part of my life. Its Like im Addicted to it, the smell and feel of it, cutting it, making shapes, trying to get it all to work together, this stuff can do anything!! anyways, I Just wanted to say hello and a bit about myself and where im at with leather right now. someone just gave me my first two leatherworking books for my birthday this last few weeks, and I havnt been able to put them down. I attached 4 photos as well, The only ones i could really find right now (my 500 gig raid system is in storage lol) just a few bracers that I made when I had my old art studio and that box of thicker leather, a sholder armor piece I made for Burningman, and a new Pendant that I made last week. Hope that I can share and learn alot of information on here, and look forward to talking with all of you!