JuntoPi

What tool did you use to stamp around the design?

Is the upholstery material glued to the entire inside? If so that's pretty impressive to me as I can't see any seam between that and the thicker material at all from your pictures.

OK. I made an adjustment in how I case the leather and got some results I was expecting. The right side and bottom of the M were done after whetting the leather but not saturating it like I did the first time. Same with the longer piece. Interestingly enough it started to dry out as I was working it and you can see in the third line the burnishing is not as pronounced. This is encouraging, so I'm going to continue experimenting with moisture levels. And trying to get nice straight lines.

@EthiopianBone, yes I'm talking about the one in Shoreline. I think they do still have those classes, at least they did the last time I was there. I'm trying to keep this as simple as I can and not get carried away getting a lot of tools all at once. I'm sticking to what I need to build a skill, then build on that.

Thanks for the replies everyone. you've convinced me to keep tying. @JLSleatherI'm in Everett, WA and I got the leather from a Tandy Leather store.

Hello everyone. First timer here looking for some help with tooling. As you can see from this Holly Hobby project, things didn't go well my first time out. I watched various videos and read articles about casing leather and basic beveling and didn't come close to the results I was expecting. To case the leather I submerged the piece it until there were only a few bubble coming out and then let it dry on my slab for about an hour. It was a little damp and cool to the touch when I started tooling. I bought myself a 2' x 2' piece of 8/9 oz veg tanned leather from Tandy to practice on. There's a couple things going on here: There is zero burnishing on this. I wasn't expecting it to look like I'd been at this for decades, but I was expecting something. My beveling is shite. I tried to tip it like the videos showed to just get in the the cut to give it a nice edge. That didn't happen. Even when I used as delicate a touch as I could. I'd love to have your suggestions and help to talk me back from the edge of this soul crushing experience.