CFM Tim Schroeder Posted January 6 CFM Report Posted January 6 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 CFM Report Posted January 6 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
CFM Tim Schroeder Posted January 6 Author CFM Report Posted January 6 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 CFM Report Posted January 6 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
rktaylor Posted January 6 Report Posted January 6 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 Members Report Posted January 6 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
CFM Tim Schroeder Posted January 6 Author CFM Report Posted January 6 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
CFM Tim Schroeder Posted January 6 Author CFM Report Posted January 6 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
CFM Tim Schroeder Posted January 6 Author CFM Report Posted January 6 Standard thickness is 1/16” or .0625 Quote
CFM Tim Schroeder Posted January 6 Author CFM Report Posted January 6 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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