Suze Posted February 24, 2009 Report Posted February 24, 2009 Absolutely 200% agree - ergo they will not go out in the garbage, but hide somewhere in my shop for decades till I come up with a good use for them LOL well they could always be parts for a "ray gun" wonder if anyone won it yet == must check Quote Reality is for people who lack imagination Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford
Members McJeep Posted February 24, 2009 Author Members Report Posted February 24, 2009 okay????? officially lost me now LOL Quote "I gotta have more cowbell!" Cristopher Walken - SNL
Suze Posted February 24, 2009 Report Posted February 24, 2009 okay????? officially lost me now LOL Tom Banwell with the steampunk mask made a raygun out of odds and ends (there was a winner for WHICH odds and ends he used) Like a sink facuet - chess rook - air nozzle look up the Pacadermous mask in show off Quote Reality is for people who lack imagination Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford
Members McJeep Posted February 24, 2009 Author Members Report Posted February 24, 2009 Tom Banwell with the steampunk mask made a raygun out of odds and ends (there was a winner for WHICH odds and ends he used) Like a sink facuet - chess rook - air nozzle look up the Pacadermous mask in show off Aaaah, now that you mention it, I did see those pics Quote "I gotta have more cowbell!" Cristopher Walken - SNL
Hennessy Posted February 24, 2009 Report Posted February 24, 2009 The first one looks like a tool a bookbinder would use, simply because there is not a lot of depth to it, & it seems to be more dull & rounded than a creaser tends to be. While it could be a creaser, bookbinders generally use tools that don't have a lot of depth, because the leathers they work with are VERY thin as opposed to the thicknesses leathercrafters generally work with. Pure speculation on my part... What the others are, I don't have a clue. in the english n aussie saddle trade they have a tool they call an edging iron.you heat th point and when it gets fairly hot you push it into a block of bees wax and run it down a dyed edge whilst wax is runny.kinda antiquated these days i think,could be so for thin leather eh pete Quote
Members MarshalWill Posted March 6, 2009 Members Report Posted March 6, 2009 (edited) You're right about the first tool being a beader. It looks like one for tooling a single bead. I suspect that would be for doing a bead that doesn't follow a knife cut or edge since both sides seem to be the same height. Here are photos of a couple of mine. The other picture shows the bead put on the edge of a design. That bead was done with the smaller of the two in the second photo. Edited March 6, 2009 by MarshalWill Quote
Members McJeep Posted March 6, 2009 Author Members Report Posted March 6, 2009 You're right about the first tool being a beader. It looks like one for tooling a single bead. I suspect that would be for doing a bead that doesn't follow a knife cut or edge since both sides seem to be the same height. Here are photos of a couple of mine. The other picture shows the bead put on the edge of a design. That bead was done with the smaller of the two in the second photo. Hah! excellent :0) Good thing cuz that's what I was going to use it for anyway ;0) Thanks :0) Rob Quote "I gotta have more cowbell!" Cristopher Walken - SNL
Members MarshalWill Posted March 7, 2009 Members Report Posted March 7, 2009 Hah! excellent :0) Good thing cuz that's what I was going to use it for anyway ;0) Some tools just make sense, don't they? I use mine a lot. It adds a nice touch to edges of things. To follow an edge, I tip mine slightly toward the beveled side and run it along firmly. On a second pass, it will usually work fine stood straight up. Quote
Members Sasquatch Posted March 23, 2009 Members Report Posted March 23, 2009 I think the second tool could be a burnishing wheel of some sort Quote www.makoaleather.com
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