Tim Schroeder Report post Posted Monday at 11:43 AM 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chuck123wapati Report post Posted Monday at 01:53 PM 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tim Schroeder Report post Posted Monday at 02:02 PM Yes have a whole set of Barry king but I use Crartool Pro series. I like they way they work better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chuck123wapati Report post Posted Monday at 02:18 PM 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rktaylor Report post Posted Monday at 02:37 PM 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlackDragon Report post Posted Monday at 03:35 PM 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tim Schroeder Report post Posted Monday at 08:12 PM 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tim Schroeder Report post Posted Monday at 09:01 PM 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tim Schroeder Report post Posted Monday at 09:10 PM Standard thickness is 1/16” or .0625 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tim Schroeder Report post Posted Monday at 09:31 PM 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
