Basket Weave Arrow

[TimKleffner]

Greetings All

Lay out your pattern. [photo 1]

Cut the outside of the tooling pattern, then I put in a beader blade, cut that inside border.

Find the center of your tooling piece and mark the center [outside of the tooling piece]

Place ruler /straight edge on center line and weight it down.

Basket stamp of your choice, lightly tap first impression [to get angle of arrow, you'll just have to play with the 1st angle after that, it usually self aligns ] [photo #2]

Lightly stamp tool impressions using the straight edge for guide. [GO WITH DIRECTION OF ARROW]

Take away ruler/ straight edge and strike impressions. [GO WITH DIRECTION OF ARROW] [photo #3]

Turn piece around , start with light impression to check angle. Start stamping [GO WITH DIRECTION OF ARROW] [photo #4 & #5]

Fill in the outside [GO WITH DIRECTION OF ARROW] [photo #7 & #8]

Bevel both sides of beader ; Set border tool of choice [photo #9]

P.S.... I'm left handed and set the arrow up for tooling back ward for all you right handers out there!

Edited November 10, 2009 by TimKleffner

[Hilly]

Thanks for the tutorial, Tim! I will have to try this out when my new Barry King basket stamps get here! I'll let you know how it goes.

[Deno]

Very nice Tim, thanks for sharing. My Best, Dennis.

[steveh]

Hi Tim, How do you determine the proper angle that you have in photo #2?

Thanks Steve

[TimKleffner]

Hi Tim, How do you determine the proper angle that you have in photo #2?

Thanks Steve

Steve,

If you look at the bottom of photo 2, I gently tapped the tool till it aligned itself. It'll take a couple times to get the feel for that angle

[particle]

Tim - thank you for taking the time to produce this tutorial! Regarding Steve's question - if possible, do you have a way to check the actual angle of the pattern? To me, it looks like almost exactly 30/60 degrees (I held an adjustable triangle up to my screen over one of your enlarged images...).

[dustin29]

Thanks for the tutorial Tim. I am casing a practice peice of leather so that I can try it out tommorrow night after work. Thank you for your time and effort to teach greenhorns like me.

[TimKleffner]

Dustin

Just keep up the good work... we all started somewhere.

Happy tooling

Tim

[Hawgman]

Hey Tim, I have set right in your shop and you showed me these steps in person and I still can't get the angle right.

Oh well I guess I have to keep on practicing. I remember you said do it 10 times then look back and see the progress.

Looks like I am going to do it more than ten times to get it right. Some of us (me ) are more dense than others.

But everything else looks better than when I first started with you. I will call you some time next week and set up some

time for training.

You keep on teaching and I will keep on learning.

Oh by the way I ordered one of Chan Geers books this week.

[electrathon]

Tim - thank you for taking the time to produce this tutorial! Regarding Steve's question - if possible, do you have a way to check the actual angle of the pattern? To me, it looks like almost exactly 30/60 degrees (I held an adjustable triangle up to my screen over one of your enlarged images...).

You can not use his angle unless you have the exact same tool. Almost every basket tool is a little differant in size and shape, so every differnat tool will have a unique angle.