Paw prints, where to bevel??

[Janice]

I am making a small gift for a friend, and it will have paw prints going across it.

I have carved them already, as well as a few on some scrap pieces. I have been playing around with the different stamping tools, and am not really happy with how those have turned out.

If anyone has some ideas to try, please let me know, as well as tool numbers I should use, ( I have a dozens of tools).

Thanks in advance.

(cutting the toes with the swivel knife was good practice!)

[rickybobby]

Janice,

Use the largest bevel you can in the area that will not leave a edge mark. Not knowing how large your paw prints are makes it hard to recomend a bevel # but start with your med. sive and work from there. If they are small (size of a 1/2 dollar or less) you can use a modeling tool to bevel and rub in lines. Post some pictures, we would love to see them.

Rick Jorgenson

[Ian]

Janice, have you thought about beveling and backgrounding inside your cuts rather than outside? it would make the footprints recessed rather than raised, which a paw print would be anyway. Just a thought.

[MADMAX22]

I did this bear paw on one of my rifle slings and liked how it turned out. I used a B802, 836 on it. I beveled intoward the paws. Kind of makes it seem like the paw is coming out toward you sort of.

[Razz]

I did this bear paw on one of my rifle slings and liked how it turned out. I used a B802, 836 on it. I beveled intoward the paws. Kind of makes it seem like the paw is coming out toward you sort of.

Your right, cool effect.

That is probably what you would see...if you were to turn and see a bear about to smack you upside the head .

Edited May 14, 2009 by Razz

[cybertracy]

i, too, prefer the paw itsefj to be beveled on the inside (cuts down on the amt of background stamping) and I normally dye the paw print several shades to the darkside--looks like the beast actually walked across my project w/out first wiping his feet.

[rickmc]

In the video by Rob Barr, his paw prints were not cut, they were pear shaded in, that way he explains that it looks like the were stepped on not cut in. the claw were beveled in without a swivel knife cut either.

Rick McCarty

[cybertracy]

In the video by Rob Barr, his paw prints were not cut, they were pear shaded in, that way he explains that it looks like the were stepped on not cut in. the claw were beveled in without a swivel knife cut either.

Rick McCarty

Good idea, thanks for sharing that! That sounds like the most realistic yet . . . I'll have to find his videos, I get a lot of requests for pawprints.

[Janice]

Thanks for all the input everyone. This is such a fantastic forum!

I made it with the beveling on the inside, and it looks good. Next one I am going to try the idea of no carving, just pear shading them in, and see which works best for myself.

Thanks again for all the help!

Jan