Checkbook For A Friend

[BearMan]

Hi Everybody,

It's been a little while since I posted any leatherwork on here. Here is a Checkbook/Wallet for a long time friend. It's done on 5/6oz Very Rustic leather. I like to use leather, that most people would reject as being just too bad to tool. The insides are done with 2/3oz calfskin, & some burgundy upholstery leather. I made 5 card slots using Tyvek house wrap for the pockets & backing. It's all hand stitched with 8 stitches per inch. It's funny how the pictures can pick up all the areas on the edge, that I need to re-do. The color is Light Brown spirit dye, that's been cut down by over half. The initials have a slight greenish brown shade, altho it doesn't show well in the pictures.

It's been about a month since I've done any tooling,,, & I could tell I needed to keep tooling more often! Soooo what do "ya'll" think?? Thanks for looking,,, & Happy Tooling!!

Ed the"BearMan"

[GrampaJoel]

I like it!

Heck, your rusty carving is better than my warmed up carving!

You can make me one and send it along with the new brown 30oz when you get to it.

Joel

[Hilly]

Hi Everybody,

It's been a little while since I posted any leatherwork on here. Here is a Checkbook/Wallet for a long time friend. It's done on 5/6oz Very Rustic leather. I like to use leather, that most people would reject as being just too bad to tool. The insides are done with 2/3oz calfskin, & some burgundy upholstery leather. I made 5 card slots using Tyvek house wrap for the pockets & backing. It's all hand stitched with 8 stitches per inch. It's funny how the pictures can pick up all the areas on the edge, that I need to re-do. The color is Light Brown spirit dye, that's been cut down by over half. The initials have a slight greenish brown shade, altho it doesn't show well in the pictures.

It's been about a month since I've done any tooling,,, & I could tell I needed to keep tooling more often! Soooo what do "ya'll" think?? Thanks for looking,,, & Happy Tooling!!

Ed the"BearMan"

Very nice checkbook, Ed. It almost feel strange to not see a lot of color in your work this time.

I'm glad you found a little time to relax a little and do some tooling after putting in all the hard work making those gorgeous mauls of yours.

I like it!

Heck, your rusty carving is better than my warmed up carving!

You can make me one and send it along with the new brown 30oz when you get to it.

Joel

Take a number, Joel. I'm waiting for a 32oz maul!

[GrampaJoel]

Ok. a 32 oz brown would be fine with me. Where's the end of the line?

I know.... right where I'm standing!!!

[King's X]

Very nice sir!

[BearMan]

Thank You All for all the kind words!! I really need to set some time aside, on a regular basis, to do some tooling,,, & swivel knife practice! This was a good practice piece to try out a couple new ideas,,, at least new to me.

A while back, I was at an Antique store, where I started looking at some old baskets. One thing I noticed about the old basketweave, was that the overlapping part actually narrowed where the weft (the side to side part), went over the warf (the up & down part). Then I started looking at basketweave stamps,,, & I didn't see any that would duplicate that. There are a lot of them that do just the opposite,,, where they get wider, when they go over. So,,,, I crudely fashioned one, to see how it would work. I know, it's kind of suptle,,, but it looks more natural. I just bet that somebody has sold one like that before,,, but I've never seen one. Thanks for looking! Ed the"BearMan"

P.S. 30oz---32oz,,, might have some good news,,, email me

[GrampaJoel]

Now that you mentioned it I took a closer look at the basketweave stamping. It does have sorta more realistic look to it. Almost looks like a real stick with fiber woven through it. I like it.

Did you just grind a regular basket weave down at the ends?

[MADMAX22]

Great work Ed, your carving always has alot of relief or definition (not sure of the right word) it always pops out at ya.

Thats a good idea with the basketstamp also.

[Colter]

Hey, Ed! The Deep impressions on the Floral work and the Realistic Basket Stamp really gets my attention. Great Work!