Gene Noland, a History of the Leather Craftsman

[Deno]

Billy P, Thanks for the info, I did not know that. I will be posting more soon. Thank you everyone.

[Johanna]

Deno- Your dad was an expert with rocks.

If I remember correctly. he did several series with themes for Tandy Doodle Pages. The bear was my favorite in the rocks.

Johanna

[King's X]

Probably most of us currently reference his alphabet book now and again. I know that I do. Thanks for sharing.

[Deno]

Johann, see post number 6 of this thread, there is the picture of the original portrait for Season's End. king's X, I beleave you are refering to this book. Here is a Pic of the original Book that he made, leather bound and embossed.

[King's X]

Johann, see post number 6 of this thread, there is the picture of the original portrait for Season's End. king's X, I beleave you are refering to this book. Here is a Pic of the original Book that he made, leather bound and embossed.

That's it!!

[Deno]

Talked with my mom yesterday, and we believe that this was his first published portrait. It's called The Eagle's Nest. It was on the front cover of The Leather Craftsman, July-August 1961 addition, Vol. 5, No. 5. The tracing pattern and his writeup were in September-October 1961 addition Vol. 5, No. 6. Page 4 had the tracing pattern and page 5 was his writeup. This was over a year before I was born. I asked her when he started working with leather, and she said the he already was doing it when they go married in 1955. So we both think he got started when he was in the Marine's between 1952 and 1955.

[Deno]

Hey Johanna, guess you could say this is when he started on rock's, lol.

[Deno]

Here is the inside cover of his Black Powder Book. The picture was taken in 1977, so he would have been just shy of 45 years old at the time. He is wearing his custom made outfit and sporting his somewhat famous Goatee and Handel Bar Mustache. The Goatee and Handel Bar Mustache he started in the mid to late 1960's, and except for the Handel Bar's he remained the same till the day he passed on. Sure am missing him right now.

[King's X]

Deno:

I just finished the pattern from the "Beer Stein" project found in the Make it with leather magazine (Crafttool Corner). Nice pattern. BTW, can I ask you what your father's pattern of tooling was? After the swivel knife for a simple foral pattern, belt or wallet? I tried F.O. way and found it really hard to do it. I was just wondering.

Thanks for sharing.

[Deno]

His style was a combo of Stohlman / Baird and a GREAT deal of his own nuances. My father, after all, was an artist. His full time job was a Graphic Artist, and what many people did not know was that all the projects that he did for Tandy he did the complete layouts and sent them the final copy and the completed projects. Tandy kept all finished works so I don't have any of the original projects to reference too. The third picture is some of the artwork for the Beer Stein that I still have. The first picture is of the completed project, and the second I enlarged it to try and get you a better look at his tooling techniques. Hope this helps you out. My Best.

Edited July 2, 2009 by Deno