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[Ian]

Just stumbled into this site - lots of good information. I started some years back as a harness maker, but business took another direction. Now I do about anything related to motorcyle leather but tooling is new to my arsenal within the last couple of years. Although this has become something I'm really getting into.

The picture I have posted is of my most recent seat along with a matching toolbag and one of the poanels made to attach to the side of the tank.

Thanks

Ian

[Opagon]

Great work, Glad to have you here!!!!

Heather

[Drac]

welcome aboard da board! if the rest of your stuff is as good as those are, you definitely have no probs in the tooling area.

[Ian]

welcome aboard da board! if the rest of your stuff is as good as those are, you definitely have no probs in the tooling area.

Thanks Drac,

Funny thing is, i had a hadful of tools that I'd never used. A guy came into the shop and asked me if I do tooled seats. Hell yeah, I told him. Then I had a couple of weeks to figure out how to use them. I should have gotten a book or something, because it's all been trial and error. Heck, I didn't even know about casing leather overnight until today - I've just wet it and started carving. I think I'll learn a lot here. The new upload is of the first tooling I ever did. I did the matching bag later.

Ian

[RockyWolf]

Hi Ian welcome along to the forum

[Oscar B]

Nice work, and welcome.

[TomSwede]

Hello Ian and welcome to leatherworker!

Nice introduction, I know one particular member that will like those webs. I'm sure he "hangs in a thread" somewhere and will soon pop in here!

I love stuff with lot's of backgrounding and been thinking of doing something with webs incorporated.

Backgrounding like that sure takes it's man and reading that you have yet to learn secrets of casing I was wondering about the degree of wetness in the leather when you stamped those backgrounds. I have my leather almost dried out with just the magic "cool touch" to it to be able to control where the mass of the leather is going to move. To wet and it seem to escape to the sides of my tool and just float around like that until leather has gone very dry, then it wanna set downwards like I want it too.

Look forward to seem more from you!

Tom

[pete]

Stunning!!! How did you finish the seat? colors,dyes, etc.

Great work!!!

pete

[esantoro]

fantastic work!

[Spider]

Hello Ian and welcome to leatherworker!

Nice introduction, I know one particular member that will like those webs. I'm sure he "hangs in a thread" somewhere and will soon pop in here!

I love stuff with lot's of backgrounding and been thinking of doing something with webs incorporated.

Backgrounding like that sure takes it's man and reading that you have yet to learn secrets of casing I was wondering about the degree of wetness in the leather when you stamped those backgrounds. I have my leather almost dried out with just the magic "cool touch" to it to be able to control where the mass of the leather is going to move. To wet and it seem to escape to the sides of my tool and just float around like that until leather has gone very dry, then it wanna set downwards like I want it too.

Look forward to seem more from you!

Tom

*gets up after fainting from the sight of such beautiful work*....oh sorry bout that but I really like this. WOW!!!

Welcome....*wipes drool from side of mouth*