archery arm guard

[chuck123wapati]

My daughter drew this out last year and then forgot about it. I was bored so grabbed it the other day and did the knife work and tooling for her then she colored it using only red, blue, green  and yellow dyes. She mixed the colors herself even the dark brown is made with those four colors. I can tell you if you want an exercise in the swivel knife and some good practice then send her a chunk of leather lol I about went cross eyed.

[Gezzer]

VERY  NICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mablung]

Beautiful work!  The tooling is great; looking at your shading especially, as I'm just learning to do that and trying to get it down.  Your daughter's paint work is great as well.  Two thumbs up.

[chuck123wapati]

2 hours ago, Gezzer said:

VERY  NICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

57 minutes ago, Mablung said:

Beautiful work!  The tooling is great; looking at your shading especially, as I'm just learning to do that and trying to get it down.  Your daughter's paint work is great as well.  Two thumbs up.

 

thanks guys it was her first attempt she did well i think.

[Littlef]

Nice, That's a good lookin arm guard!

[Doc Reaper]

It's a might but purty 

[dikman]

Going cross-eyed is an understatement! There's a lot of very fine short cuts in that, you did a great job. And so did your daughter.

[jrdunn]

Very cool!  I'm guessing that Orchid is her name?  I really enjoy it when young people take an interest in my craft.  I suppose that is part of being an old geezer.  JM2C, Jim

[AlZilla]

Wow. The girl has a really deft hand with the paintbrush and a good eye for color.  Blowing the pics up shows quite a lot of precision work.

The guy she hired to do the knife work and tooling is pretty fair, too ...

[TonyV]

she has an eye for detail and the talent to make it come alive.  And your tooling is impeccable. Great teamwork!

[toxo]

Nice bracer Chuck. That you worked on it together makes it special and ensures it will never end up in the bin in 30 years time.

[Thadrick]

That look great.

My hardest time with leather working is the drawing out part. 

[DieselTech]

Looks great! Awesome work! Hats off to both of you. Just stunning. 

[chuck123wapati]

17 hours ago, Littlef said:

Nice, That's a good lookin arm guard!

 

15 hours ago, Doc Reaper said:

It's a might but purty 

thanks guys!!

14 hours ago, dikman said:

Going cross-eyed is an understatement! There's a lot of very fine short cuts in that, you did a great job. And so did your daughter.

thanks !!

[chuck123wapati]

13 hours ago, AlZilla said:

Wow. The girl has a really deft hand with the paintbrush and a good eye for color.  Blowing the pics up shows quite a lot of precision work.

The guy she hired to do the knife work and tooling is pretty fair, too ...

lol thanks yea i had to put on the bifocals to see how far she went. 

[chuck123wapati]

11 hours ago, TonyV said:

she has an eye for detail and the talent to make it come alive.  And your tooling is impeccable. Great teamwork!

thanks you yes her thing is really digital art work she can draw some really cool stuff.

[chuck123wapati]

11 hours ago, toxo said:

Nice bracer Chuck. That you worked on it together makes it special and ensures it will never end up in the bin in 30 years time.

thank you it was great fun working together and I couldn't have done it justice lol. she spent four hours painting it.

[chuck123wapati]

10 hours ago, Thadrick said:

That look great.

My hardest time with leather working is the drawing out part. 

Thanks mine is too, thinking up the design sometimes takes days lol Orchid drew this with a stylus right on the leather, other than the letters being kinda wonky she made few mistakes. She routinely sketches with a pen, how does a person do that without erasing lol??

9 hours ago, DieselTech said:

Looks great! Awesome work! Hats off to both of you. Just stunning. 

thanks friend