Rucksack

[sorethumbs]

I often go to the leather store and see splits and corrected grain hides that beg for something to be done with them. Unfortunately they don't usually lend well to carving and until recently I hadn't wanted to do miles of hand stitching for decoration. So I decided to play around with pyrography.

All of the decoration on this rucksack is done by scraping with the edge of a knife and then drawing the design with a sharpie. I then took a soldering iron and burned the designs in to give it a deep, dark tone.

Everything was punched, laced and turned inside out.

I actually made this piece as something to carry on the trail when hiking. As you can see there is some scratching on the leather from its maiden voyage.

~Sorethumbs

[GypsyWind]

Beautiful work!

I love the look of burnt leather paterns .... I dont think I have a single piece that hasnt been burnt in some way!

hope you get alot of good use out of the pack!