Jaymack Report post Posted March 5, 2010 I'm a noob to leatherworking. I bought my stamping tools on ebay, and a couple stops were included. What are stops used for. If you have a couple of pictures or examples, I would truly appreciate it. Thanks, John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ClayB Report post Posted March 5, 2010 Hi John and welcome to Leatherworker. Paul Burnett has a series of free lessons on his Painting Cow website. You owe it to yourself to sign up for them as Paul is one of the best when it comes to leather artists and he shares a lot of his knowledge for free. If you sign up for the lessons, he'll email you when new stuff becomes available. Ok, enough of the advertisement for Paul. But, in a couple of these lessons he talks about stops. Here's a link to one of them. If you go part way down the page to the section on "special bevelers" you will see how Paul defines stops. He considers them a special beveler used to bevel a tight turn. If you look at the sample carving at the bottom of the page, his description should make some sense to you. I think there are other times when the tool is used to "stop" a line. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Texan Report post Posted May 23, 2010 I'm a noob to leatherworking. I bought my stamping tools on ebay, and a couple stops were included. What are stops used for. If you have a couple of pictures or examples, I would truly appreciate it. Thanks, John Jaymack Seen your post this morning, I am new to this site. If you will look at some of the older crafters, work. You will see the stop used especially on flowers. they were orginally used to stop a line where it formed the petal of a flower. If you look at a real flower sometimes you see a small circular area where the petal joins the main bud of the flower, that is where a stop us used. The Texan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
