Toddo Report post Posted March 17, 2010 Hello all. I just starting getting into leather working here lately, originally in an attempt to get my 12 year old son interested in it more so than anything. This past Christmas I was searching for some good gift ideas when I noticed a Tandy leather store in our area and decided to check it out. I had done a little leather working myself when I was a kid around the age of 11 and 12 years old and I thought this would be a great gift idea for him. So.. looking around at Tandy I saw one of those deluxe starter kits on sale for $100 bucks and decided to go ahead and get it for him for Christmas and see if he would develop any interest in it. I had gotten one for Christmas JUST like it when I was a kid. He's pretty much showed minimal interest in it so far. He's more interested in the Xbox 360 I'm afraid. But... when he OCCAISIONALLY gets tired of playing video games, he does tinker with it some. So on this note, I decided to go get some project material from Tandy and give it a go myself in an attempt to spark more interest in it for him. You know, to show him how amazing it is to transform a blank piece of leather into some cool looking stuff. The first thing I did was a book marker project with the sheridan design. It came out fairly well. He was DEFFINITELY impressed with that. I don't have a pic of that right now. The second thing I started working on was this wallet. His birthday is coming up in May, so I decided to make a wallet for him. So then I go to Tandy and get this wallet kit that was on sale. I got some good practice on the sheridan design on the book marker and was preparing to go with the sheridan pattern that came with the wallet when I started thinking he might not want a wallet with a floral design on it. So I started looking around for an alternate design. At first I was gonna do like a skateboard logo and then I saw one of those huge football helmet magnets on a car and thought that would be perfect for me to do. The lines are simple and not to intricate, and the colors and very simple. So I went online, got an image of the football helmet magnet and transferred it from the screen to the leather. This is what I've got so far on the wallet. Actually, I would like to ask some advice and questions about what I should do next with this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
terrahyd Report post Posted March 17, 2010 HI Toddo;; welcome to LW.net...you did realy good on the wallet man ...when your boy's friends see it , he will then realy know how great it is ...hope you both enjoy the craft ......Doc.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toddo Report post Posted March 17, 2010 HI Toddo;; welcome to LW.net...you did realy good on the wallet man ...when your boy's friends see it , he will then realy know how great it is ...hope you both enjoy the craft ......Doc.... Thanks Doc! Nice to meet you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
