Members TomBanwell Posted February 10, 2009 Members Report Posted February 10, 2009 Beautiful work! Quote
JohnBarton Posted February 10, 2009 Author Report Posted February 10, 2009 Beautiful work! Thank you and can I say that you are responsible for me spending several hours of my life at your website(s) last year marveling at the creations you bring to life? Quote Support Quality. We are all humans. Buy the best no matter where it's made. That way everyone lives in harmony. Nature knows no flags.
Arturo Posted February 10, 2009 Report Posted February 10, 2009 John: That is truely sweet! I really think $800 is way too cheap for that much work and level of detail. Arturo Quote
Members Cyrex Posted March 2, 2010 Members Report Posted March 2, 2010 Very cool case John. I really like how you 'hid' the back panel by sewing along the lines of the scales. Very unique look and you keep coming up with the coolest little features. I loved Chris's case with the JP pocket! That was genius. Thanks for always thinking out of the box. It's a big inspiration. ~R Quote When it's you against the world.... bet on the world.
Members Fonzarellis Posted January 7, 2015 Members Report Posted January 7, 2015 I'm a dragon buff but a beginner when it comes to leathercraft. I was fooling around the other day with this and there is a vast difference between scales for fish, snakes and lizards. Since dragons are essentially a big lizard I was looking into this first. Surfing around here and on teh internet I found several samples and even tutorials for raised dragon scales by undercutting the point of each scale with an exacto knife then rolling the leather to make the scales sort of stand up. I had to give this a try so I found a pattern online, did a screen capture, scaled it to several different sizes then printed it out on some vellum. Transfered, cut and beveled each scale, used a lined shader and a decorative cut, then did the under cutting. Here are the results... No undercutting with undercutting I really was not satisfied with the result and will probably end up with some of the more high end tools suggested in the posts above for making dragon scales in the future. I did continue to experiment and end up with much different results using some of the more common tools. This was a small piece of scrap for doodles with the basic 6431 camoflage tool on one end and the 6855 mulefoot on the other. Not sure if I used the camoflage tool correctly but the result looks more like the scales you might see on a carp or some other large fish. ( Disregard the oak leaf doodles in the center, I was practicing with my el cheapo Tandy swivel knife after some sharpening and honing.) The mulefoot seems to yeild some very good results. I used a 6910 lined triagular shaped figure carving tool to add some lines but ended up following that with a lined shader and some decrative cuts. These look more like nonvenomous snake scales to me. Lizard and dragon scales woould be more pointed at the ends. Gonna need those other tools for that though. Fun to play around with for now. Quote
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