Briefcase

[K-Man]

Awesome work, on both accounts.

[Razz]

That is a stunning effect, beautiful.

My daugther as been asking me for a laptop case, never made a case before.

Will have to attempt, is the front and back just one peace of hide.

Always inspiring to see other peoples results.

Thanks.

Edited April 8, 2009 by Razz

[bruce johnson]

Very nice!!!!!!!!

The stamping must have taken a long time.

Actually the impressive part of this is that Harvey stamped all of this in one evening. He knows this stamp well, and is about as good with it as anyone is with a block stamp. The back is a section of this stamping also, in an area about 15x 11. He did it all using his 4# (yes, 64 oz of Barry King maul). He made anywhere from 2-4 hits per impression to get the corners even of this stamp.

[bigorange]

Man that workmanship is so good I can smell the leather all the way over here on the east coast!

[Rawhide]

Man that workmanship is so good I can smell the leather all the way over here on the east coast!

Bruce, What is the finish on this piece? Is it just oiled, or highligher and/or antique?

What's the topcoat?

[bruce johnson]

Marlon,

It was previously cased about 16 hours with the water/lexol/baby shampoo mix. The leather was oiled with a mix of NF oil and med brown ProDye that night right after stamping. No additional dye, antique, or Hiliter on this. The burnish came from using a stamp with some checkering and hitting a whopper maul. Not only can Harvey line this stamp up, he can swing that maul enough to get good even color and depth. The finish is Fiebings Leathersheen.

[JLincoln]

Nice work. I applied the same mentor theory and adopted a saddlemaker to help me develop my skill. Congratulations on a beautiful project.

[Rawhide]

Marlon,

It was previously cased about 16 hours with the water/lexol/baby shampoo mix. The leather was oiled with a mix of NF oil and med brown ProDye that night right after stamping. No additional dye, antique, or Hiliter on this. The burnish came from using a stamp with some checkering and hitting a whopper maul. Not only can Harvey line this stamp up, he can swing that maul enough to get good even color and depth. The finish is Fiebings Leathersheen.

Thanks Bruce... Your answer does bring up another question for me though...

I've tried to mix dye and nf oil and the dye tends to separate from the oil (kind of like oil and water). Could you elaborate on how you do this, and the roundabout ratio of dye to oil mixture?

Thanks...."drooling"!!!

[esantoro]

Harvey did a great job tooling and Bruce did an awesome job with the construction.

Bruce:

Did you pare the edges of the flap, back panel, and front panel to create an integrated binding? Very nice.

ed

[bruce johnson]

Harvey did a great job tooling and Bruce did an awesome job with the construction.

Bruce:

Did you pare the edges of the flap, back panel, and front panel to create an integrated binding? Very nice.

ed

Ed,

I'm not sure what an integrated binding is. I edge beveled with bisonettes. I applied some Ron's-like edge dressing and then some of my wax blend and slicked them on Norm's wood slicker on the drill press.