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[TimKleffner]

Bob

JUST AMAZING! Your work is absolutely inspiring ! I see work like yours, it gives me sleepless nights; when I close my eyes, I can see your work buzzing through my head.

Thanks for posting the pics.

Happy tooling

Tim

[hidepounder]

Thanks everybody for all the compliments and support. It's wonderful to know when your efforts are appreciated and makes me strive to do better on the next project!

Bobby

Really nice piece Bob. Looks like your double beveling those scrolls too. Lot of thought and time in a notebook like that.

Great job,

Troy

Thanks Troy, I appreciate it...no I didn't double bevel my scrolls....I have taken so many things from your work that I feel double beveling the scrolls is sacred ground and belongs to you...I have been considering double beveling my stems though, LOL!

Thanks again,

Bobby

[Hilly]

Thanks everybody for all the compliments and support. It's wonderful to know when your efforts are appreciated and makes me strive to do better on the next project!

Bobby

"Better"? How can you possible do any better than you've already done? Bob, if you raise the bar any farther, we're all gonna get complexes! I only wish I could be a fly on the wall, and watch you work.

[outcast]

Bob, I can't say that your work is beyond any one leather artisan, however I can say that IMO you are right up there with the best; Peter Main, Xian, Hape, and others here, and there (there are many other acclaimed masters of leather). I feel it would take an other worldly type alien guy to get any better than you & some of the above mentioned.

[jbird]

Bob

your not human all hail Bob Park.

Josh

[Colter]

Looks like we're in the presence of the Guy that outdid Al Stohlman! Your work is absolutely amazing, always makes me want to get back to the workbench too, Love seeing this, very nicely done!

Edited December 12, 2009 by Thalaskaru

[TroyWest]

Thanks everybody for all the compliments and support. It's wonderful to know when your efforts are appreciated and makes me strive to do better on the next project!

Bobby

Thanks Troy, I appreciate it...no I didn't double bevel my scrolls....I have taken so many things from your work that I feel double beveling the scrolls is sacred ground and belongs to you...I have been considering double beveling my stems though, LOL!

Thanks again,

Bobby

Thanks for the compliment Bob but believe me I didn't invent double beveling scrolls. I think somebody did that before we were born. Use anything you can.

Troy

[ETW Grumpy]

Amazing. What is double bevelling?

[TroyWest]

Amazing. What is double bevelling?

Your not the only person that asked this, so I'm sure others may have the same question. After you have cut the scroll, or anything else you would want to double bevel, like Bob mentioned he might want to do his stems. Bevel to the inside of the line first, then bevel the outside of the cut like you normally would. This makes the scroll have a nice rounded effect that is very attractive. Downside is you have to bevel twice as much on the same item.

Troy

[hidepounder]

Grumpy,

I'm going to jump back in because I want to expand a little. While Troy is right, double beveling has been performed for many many years, he is one of the few toolers to make successful use of this technique in recent times. He has drawn a couple of patterns where double beveling the scrolls is a very prominent part of the pattern and I have never seen anyone do it better. He is way too modest to tell anyone this so I will. I study his tooling whenever I get a chance and have incorporated many of his ideas into my own work...that was the reason for my earlier comment. If you ever have the opportunity to see photos of the saddle he built for his daughter you will see how he makes use of that technique....it's stunning! Just wanted to get that on the record....

Bobby