Straight from my casket garden

[TomSwede]

This is a quickie I threw together so I had something to look at if I'd miss my shop to much when I'm in Scotland next week but I'm sure all the good whisky will cure that too.The lining got a tad to narrow so the edges were fraying up when lacing but it holds together and I also made some errors with the triple loop braid but it doesn't show much to an untrained eye. I might tear this one apart when home and perhaps use as wallet. Need a practice piece and I love the look about it alltough I usually prefer to be a loyal servant of my Norse gods and godesses and keep things vikingstyle or heavy metal, off course. I might have been Egyptian in passed lives, who knows?Sealed it after tooling and then antiqued but no sealer afterwards since I like the look it has now. Will be interesting to see how the antiquing holds up after a while.

Creds to Freak for sharing this excellent pattern. It worked like a charm but has a spell on it... I also forgot to tape the back and got a sore neck from lacing...woohooo...creepy

Please feel free to critize, I know there's some issues since I just rushed through every step on this one.

Tom

Edited May 15, 2008 by TomSwede

[jammon]

Very nice work!

[Dagr]

That's very cool Tom! And look at it this way, it might not be metal, or Norse, but, ....... you did manage to put a skull on it, so it's all good! LOL

[leatheroo]

nice work tom, i like the design and the color, you shouldnt have mentioned the lacing error, now we are all going to look for it!!

[sodapop]

i think it looks cool as hell tom!!...how did you get the effect in the flat surface areas where it looks to have some texture and the antique is left behind in certain spots?? not sure if i'm explaining my question very well ...it gives it a groovy overall effect

thanks

darryl

[TomSwede]

Thank you all. I most often mention my errors to you guys.

For this one i tried a new method. I took a circular cut piece from one of those childrens playmats of some semihard foam, sometimes used in motorcycle seats shown here. It's about 3" in diameter and just wrapped my damp cloth around it. The saddle tan was dried to solid state and I just started rubbing the pad around (watch out for wrinkles in the cloth) soft at first and as the cloth got more dirty I rubbed it harder. Never cleaned out the cloth, just rubbed it around until I was happy with it.

The sealer had only dried for about one hour so it's possible more than normal passed through. I should mention that the leather was not very good quality and pretty wrinkled to begin with so there's alot if cavitys for the antiqueoil to sink into where the pad woudn't reach.

Tom

[freak]

Nice, very nice !!! How could i not just love it.

Are you a lefty tom ?

[Tina]

Ok, so I'm a sucker for the norse stuff but...This one Rocks Tom:-)

[Beaverslayer]

Tom, I'm with you on the Egyptian past life thing, coulda sworn I knew how to build pyramids a few years back...LOL

I love the Egyptian motif, looks real good.

On the inner liner, what I would do, is take a strip of pigskin suede about 3/4" wide, apply glue to the underside of the strip, fold it over itself in half, press and roll. This will give you a 3/8" wide strip that you would glue to the edge of the liner, and it will keep the nylon liner from fraying when you punch holes and pull lace through them. Be sure to p glue the strip down with the folded edge on the exposed side of the lace.

Hope you understand what I mean

Ken

[Apholsters]

Awsome Possum Tom

Chris