Lewis Roper On A Sonny Felkins Tree. #2

[pete]

First off- kudos to you and your 2nd saddle! I've seen folks with their 10th that wasn't as clean and well done.

Secondly, how DID you finally get the stamp to run true? Did you run score lines first? Took me and lot of others here awhile to run a basket stamp well!

Nice work- post your next!!

pete

[seveneves]

First off- kudos to you and your 2nd saddle! I've seen folks with their 10th that wasn't as clean and well done.

Secondly, how DID you finally get the stamp to run true? Did you run score lines first? Took me and lot of others here awhile to run a basket stamp well!

Nice work- post your next!!

pete

[seveneves]

@Pete

This was a long process for me to get the stamping down right. At first I would score a line but then after a while it would start to warp. So I made a design in Photoshop then I printed it out and pasted it to some vinyl. Then I tool a razor and cut out my pattern which was about 4 inches. Then I laid it out on the cased leather and rubbed the impression into the leather. From there I would simply stamp over top of the light impression. It keeps things straight and true.

[Casey Jordan]

Thanks Casey. It's a Jeremiah Watt stamp and I just played around with it and came up with this. It was super hard to get it looking even consistent. I sure waisted a lot of leather getting it right.

Thanks for the closeup pictures. Now I can see the tool you used. Also thanks for explaining how you tooled it in a later post.

I'm very impressed and your time and leather spent was well worth it. Nice job.

[gtwister09]

Jared,

The saddle looks nice.

Talk about deja-vu! In the late 80's, I used AutoCAD to generate some of those vinyl templates but we used a vinyl cutter to cut the masks out. I did this for a lady in the symbolization/masking group who was just starting to do leather work and struggled greatly with geometric stamps and basketweave angles. She struggled with using draftman's triangles and I don't like score lines that show up in your finished work no matter how small. She likewise would warp even her scored lines so we had to come up with another methodology. So this was a standard masking method that we came up with but was applied to leather stamping.

I will see if she still has them and get some pictures. She had me create several for "arrowhead" patterns of various geometric stamps as well as a couple of basketweave stamps that she had.

As shown here masking techniques can be used for etching, templates, airbrushing, sandblasting metal/wood/glass/other materials and so many other things. We have used it for all of these things including bead blasting patterns with glass on plain conchos and monel stirrups.

On another note the Lewis trees are pretty well known in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma region for their roping trees. Lewis Tree Shop

Once again nice work.

Regards,

Ben

Edited September 24, 2010 by gtwister09

[seveneves]

Jared,

The saddle looks nice.

Talk about deja-vu! In the late 80's, I used AutoCAD to generate some of those vinyl templates but we used a vinyl cutter to cut the masks out. I did this for a lady in the symbolization/masking group who was just starting to do leather work and struggled greatly with geometric stamps and basketweave angles. She struggled with using draftman's triangles and I don't like score lines that show up in your finished work no matter how small. She likewise would warp even her scored lines so we had to come up with another methodology. So this was a standard masking method that we came up with but was applied to leather stamping.

I will see if she still has them and get some pictures. She had me create several for "arrowhead" patterns of various geometric stamps as well as a couple of basketweave stamps that she had.

As shown here masking techniques can be used for etching, templates, airbrushing, sandblasting metal/wood/glass/other materials and so many other things. We have used it for all of these things including bead blasting patterns with glass on plain conchos and monel stirrups.

On another note the Lewis trees are pretty well known in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma region for their roping trees. Lewis Tree Shop

Once again nice work.

Regards,

Ben

Wow it's interested to note that great minds think alike! I thought I was the only one. Way to burst my bubble. I have a couple other designs that I want to put into practice this really is a good way and keeps things straight.

I'm not sure how you would do with for a basketstamp. The vinyl I used was just stuff my wife makes lettering out of. It's not super heavy but does the job. I just received my next tree in the mail last week. It's a leuallen tree made by Timberline in Vernal Utah I'm building Randy a website in trade for a tree. It looks really nice and has a wood post horn which is a little out of the ordinary for that type of tree.