Guitar Strap with Ichthus, Celtic Cross Concho, trinity knot

[Ledhep]

Made this piece for a local worship leader.  He had Scottish lineage and wanted some ancient Christian symbols on it. 
 

I was a little disappointed with the splotchy-ness of the die. But he was very happy. 

concho was hand cut from brass. 

[PastorBob]

That tri-weave is one of my favorite stamps.  I love the incorporation of the symbols.  Letters are so hard to carve in leather.  Thanks for sharing your work!

[Ledhep]

36 minutes ago, PastorBob said:

That tri-weave is one of my favorite stamps.  I love the incorporation of the symbols.  Letters are so hard to carve in leather.  Thanks for sharing your work!

I hate lining letters. But this customer wanted a very "aged" or "ancient" look soooo. that's what he got..  The strap was going to be 3" which made my pattern lay out better, but then they decided they wanted to narrow the strap to make it a little more comfortable. I had a difficult time with reducing the patterns without muddling them. 

I actually bought a Celtic knot stamp from Belgium to border this strap, that that stamp was difficult to line up and looked terrible, so I went to the tri weave. 

Edited Friday at 05:39 PM by Ledhep

[AEBL]

Neat two-tone effect. Airbrushed?

Also, trivia: the "icthus" is an acrostic in koine Greek:
Iesus (there is no "J" in Greek)
Xristos

Theos
Uios
Soter

Jesus Christ, Son of God, savior
and the fish symbol is because ixthus = fish in Greek

Edited Saturday at 09:02 PM by AEBL
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