Hello leatherworkers!

[Grey Drakkon]

I'm a rank amateur when it comes to leatherworking, especially compared to what I've seen on this forum. My real introduction to it was when I bought "The Leatherworking Handbook" by Valerie Michael, which had good descriptions of vegetable tanned leather, how it acts, what the weights are, and some projects of varying difficulty, including those that teach you how to do saddle stitching. I bought it because I wanted to make a leather mask, and I did. So I made another, and another, and soon enough I was getting questions on how I make my masks, so I made a tutorial on how I make them. ;D

I lease a horse and I stumbled on this forum by trying to find a leatherworking book for tack. I'm hoping to make a simple bridle first, or maybe just a browband and move on from there. If nothing else, it would be handy to be able to make simple repairs to saddles, or at least know if something is able to be repaired or not. My beginning efforts at stamping have been pretty pathetic, but I was flailing out on my own with probably half the tools that I needed. I'll probably post them so everyone can have a laugh.

I'm an artsy kind of person, and I like mixing things up. I've dabbled in calligraphy, polymer clay, ceramics, jewelery work, and of course leatherworking. I have a deviant art site that has a mix of all of these things, some of which were from years ago and I'm mildly embarrassed to have up now. Ah well, if I hadn't improved in that time, I'd be worried.

[jana]

Welcome to the site! Put up some pictures of your masks , I would like to see them. I am working on a type of masquerade mask and could use some inspiration

[Grey Drakkon]

  On 9/7/2009 at 7:50 PM, jana said:

Welcome to the site! Put up some pictures of your masks , I would like to see them. I am working on a type of masquerade mask and could use some inspiration

No problem, I'll put them up in the critique area, I'll toss in the tutorial too just to see everyone's opinion on how it reads.