Carving-Tooling _Stamping

[Stewart]

Hi,

If stamping depress leather to make an impression. than wouldn"t

beveling around a letter do the same instead of using a swivel Knife ?

Why i don't want to use the swivel knife ? Well there is somethings in

a person life that they can not do. For me is sharpining knifes

Yes went to U.S.F. to learn and the professer ended up

in there Physic ward for evcwssive pulling hair out..

Well i am goning to try both ways and see what happens.

Thanks

Stewart

[Ferg]

Hi,

If stamping depress leather to make an impression. than wouldn"t

beveling around a letter do the same instead of using a swivel Knife ?

Why i don't want to use the swivel knife ? Well there is somethings in

a person life that they can not do. For me is sharpining knifes

Yes went to U.S.F. to learn and the professer ended up

in there Physic ward for evcwssive pulling hair out..

Well i am goning to try both ways and see what happens.

Thanks

Stewart

Only answer I can give for this... You need the cut done by the swivel knife to determine the depth of a nice clean bevel. Some instances will call for beveling without cutting, I don't think around letters is one of them in my book

ferg

[Leatherimages]

Stewart,

There is a whole field of leather work that is modled only. I kinda like it actually. Even more depth can be accomplished by raising the leather from the back. They call it reposse', I think.

Ten years ago, about fifty of us did a Leather Art Cruise up the Inside Passage of Alaska. There was this huge landscape scene that was done without a swivel knife, modling tools only. It looked like about 6-7 ounce side of leather. Really quite amazing.

If you like, do it. There's very little right and wrong, and even that don't matter.

Go for it dude!

[dirtclod]

I have used a beveled edge only on a few things i have made. Just because beveling after it had been cut didn't look right. The few times i have done it was on a animal face and the inside of the ears. The rest of the time i use a swivel knife and then bevel.

[King's X]

Ship a blade to me and I will get it sharpened for you!

[Stewart]

Thank you Ferg,Leatherimages Dirtclod and King"s X

Well the beveling without cutting did not work and the knife way

didn"t look that great. The reposse" , i have looked into but

i need to get better at the small things first.

The leather i was using was thin round from Tandys. i beleive

i used it for the wrong thing i was doing. The idea of what i

am going to do worked out-just not right type of leather.

King"s X I sent you an e-mail about the offer on doing

the sharpining.

I Liked th longhorn news letter.

Thanks you all

Joe Stewart

By the way heres my new source of leather

[KatieG]

Doing with the cut works better, cleaner, in my experience, but I have beveled sans a cut. With a cut you get a deeper, clearer impression. So, it's doable, and some people do do it that way. I remember a gentleman who doesn't cut OR bevel, he does it all with a modeling tool. So, while doable, it might require some practice and harder tooling to create the same illusions.

Honestly, I don't sharpen very well myself. I miss my old Tandy, Matt was excellent and would sharpen my knife for me sometimes. I can do it myself, but I usually end up with a burr on it *looks ashamed*. You could look into a ceramic knife - I'll grab mine mid-project if my metal one goes dull, so I don't have to lose my flow to take time to sharpen. ^^.;;

I keep practicing on a spare blade, someday I'll improve, I'm sure...

I know that there are places out there that sharpen knives, and I think Tandy sells a guide you can attach to make it easier on you, as well.