Chris B Posted October 6, 2009 Report Posted October 6, 2009 Hello All, I have been praticing again, now for about a week. And I have pretty much gotten walking the beveler down. And my swivel knife cuts are looking alot better. But my pear shader is off. I cant figure out how in the books it looks like they are getting a wide stripe while I am only getting a narrow one. Well thats with me assuming that they are using the same tools as supplied in the basic 7 kit. Do you guys just do one pass or make 2 next to each other? Also, how deep do you normally go? And with the camoflauge are you supposed to walk that like the beveler or pick it up and move it your self? Thanks, Chris Quote
Members Double U Leather Posted October 6, 2009 Members Report Posted October 6, 2009 If you could post some pictures, that would give everyone a better idea of what you've got going on. Quote
Contributing Member ClayB Posted October 6, 2009 Contributing Member Report Posted October 6, 2009 Hi Chris, There are a lot of different sizes of pear shaders. It is probably easier to have the one that fits the area you are trying to stamp in with one pass. If you don't, you can work the shader from side to side to get it to fill in a larger area. I think that's what you are asking and my answer would be yes, make another pass to widen the impression, but not the full width of the tool. It's probably going to take some practice to make this look nice and smooth. With the cam, you are going to want to lift it and carefully set it back down between impressions. That'll be slow at first but you want the impressions to be spaced evenly. It'll get a lot faster as you do more of it. You also want to learn to tilt the cam to one side when you are following the edge of a scroll or the center line in some leaves. If you post pictures of what you are having troubles with, I'm sure people will jump in with lots of suggestions. Quote ClayB Badlands Leather Art blog Badlands Leather Art Website
hidepounder Posted October 6, 2009 Report Posted October 6, 2009 Hi Chris, There are a lot of different sizes of pear shaders. It is probably easier to have the one that fits the area you are trying to stamp in with one pass. If you don't, you can work the shader from side to side to get it to fill in a larger area. I think that's what you are asking and my answer would be yes, make another pass to widen the impression, but not the full width of the tool. It's probably going to take some practice to make this look nice and smooth. With the cam, you are going to want to lift it and carefully set it back down between impressions. That'll be slow at first but you want the impressions to be spaced evenly. It'll get a lot faster as you do more of it. You also want to learn to tilt the cam to one side when you are following the edge of a scroll or the center line in some leaves. If you post pictures of what you are having troubles with, I'm sure people will jump in with lots of suggestions. What he said!!!!! Quote
Chris B Posted October 7, 2009 Author Report Posted October 7, 2009 Thanks guys. I will put a picture up tomorrow. It seems that my batteries are dead in my camera...SO I will definetly post a pic tomorrow. Quote
Members kevinhopkins Posted October 7, 2009 Members Report Posted October 7, 2009 Hi.... You need to walk the pear shader just like the beveler... And it may take a bit of practice, but it might help if you think of your hand as a vice with a tool in it, thats attached to your wrist. I know that might be a stretch, but just might get you over the mental hump! And for what it's worth, you can almost always use a little bigger pearshader than you think you can. Keep pounding! You'll get it! Kevin@springfieldleather.com Quote
hidepounder Posted October 7, 2009 Report Posted October 7, 2009 Chris, Shading is probably the next most difficult task to master next to beveling and bar grounding. Probably the most important tip that I ever learned from a master tooler (Ray Pojha) was to fit the tool to the pattern...or...fit the pattern to the tool! In the interim, you can do as Clay described but eventually you'll want to accumulate enough shaders to fit what you're patterns. Hope this helps... Bobby Quote
Chris B Posted October 8, 2009 Author Report Posted October 8, 2009 Ok here we go if I can figure out on how to post pictures. I quit on this one when I realized that I beveled on the wrong side of the stem.. But any way I took pictures of my swivel knife cuts and on through the beveling. Well half way through that lol. Quote
Chris B Posted October 8, 2009 Author Report Posted October 8, 2009 Ok im going to have to do this in 3 different posts, I dont have a clue on how to resize pics. Quote
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