Contributing Member Tim Schroeder Posted January 6, 2025 Contributing Member Report Posted January 6, 2025 Goal was to quite cutting so deep with the swivel knife, work on bargrounding and keep the background areas as small as possible. Second picture is on some Brazilian import from Frogjelly Leather. Lacks a little color but tools nice. Quote
CFM chuck123wapati Posted January 6, 2025 CFM Report Posted January 6, 2025 i love your knife cuts in the petals they are almost perfect. do you ever use lifters or how much do you if you do? Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
Contributing Member Tim Schroeder Posted January 6, 2025 Author Contributing Member Report Posted January 6, 2025 Yes have a whole set of Barry king but I use Crartool Pro series. I like they way they work better. Quote
CFM chuck123wapati Posted January 6, 2025 CFM Report Posted January 6, 2025 14 minutes ago, Tim Schroeder said: Yes have a whole set of Barry king but I use Crartool Pro series. I like they way they work better. I made my own lol, but i see you do it much lighter than i do, it looks nice your way and won't smoosh down as easy i bet. Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
rktaylor Posted January 6, 2025 Report Posted January 6, 2025 2 hours ago, Tim Schroeder said: work on bargrounding and keep the background areas as small as possible. I am currently focusing on these as well (among others). My background areas always seem to grow. Your work looks great. Especially the decorative cuts as noted. Randy Quote
Members BlackDragon Posted January 6, 2025 Members Report Posted January 6, 2025 3 hours ago, Tim Schroeder said: Goal was to quite cutting so deep with the swivel knife, work on bargrounding and keep the background areas as small as possible. Second picture is on some Brazilian import from Frogjelly Leather. Lacks a little color but tools nice. All I can really say is WOW!! Quote
Contributing Member Tim Schroeder Posted January 6, 2025 Author Contributing Member Report Posted January 6, 2025 Thanks for the kind words. Correction, the top picture is the Brazilian import, the bottom is Herman Oak. Also working on tracing OUTSIDE the lines when tracing the pattern on to the leather. Quote
Contributing Member Tim Schroeder Posted January 6, 2025 Author Contributing Member Report Posted January 6, 2025 I use a very thin Leatherwrangler blade for those decorative cuts. That thin blade is .028 thick. Standard thickness is .125. The middle one is .042 thick. I cut all the pattern with it. Quote
Contributing Member Tim Schroeder Posted January 6, 2025 Author Contributing Member Report Posted January 6, 2025 Standard thickness is 1/16” or .0625 Quote
Contributing Member Tim Schroeder Posted January 6, 2025 Author Contributing Member Report Posted January 6, 2025 You can see the tracing lines in blue ink. Top one pretty much traced the pattern and the background gets bigger. The bottom one looks much better and you can see how outside the lines I was tracing. Quote
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