Monthly challenge for June

[Crystal]

Dangit. I wanted to be the first. I probably WOULD have been if I had only posted the pictures I took. I saw the design right after it was posted and KNEW it was right up my alley! I scaled it for a rounder, and got busy. By the end of the day, June 1, I had my little Celtic rounder.

Then I got turbo lazy and never uploaded the picture! Oh well. At least Crystal made a cool somethign out of her project. Mine's just another wierd round thing laying around...

Brent

I like the pointed ends on yours - somehow when I traced mine, I rounded them out.

And you did get yours done first - I was no where near done on the 1st of June. Great job!

Crystal

[Clay]

Brent,

Great job on the tooling. Gotta do something about the turbo tho... LOL

Thanks for taking the challenge!!!

ClayM.

[TomSwede]

TOM THANKS FOR MAKING IT LARGER........ now to find time to carve it..........

weeell, if we hang around here long enough time should come to us....

and a couple of these , listening to a cd or two , oh and a whisky upon that and now check out the latest post on LW and so we're ready to do some leatherwo.......oh, oops almost morning and time to go to sleep. Oh well, tomorrow...

Tom

[wildrose]

I couldn't let a Celtic one pass me by...so here's what I came up with. Just a basic rounder. I had more trouble with the circle (hate 'em!) than the knot itself...No one else had done inverted, so I went that route:

[bruce johnson]

OK, I have never done any Celtic before. Stepping out of the box here and showing my version of cowboy Celtic. I kind of free handed the pattern in, and there are a couple rough spots. I thought about backgrounding with a tiny basket, but on a scrap that looked too busy to me and took away from the design. I can see this as the center on a rope can, hide inlay, and a Celtic design outer ring. This is a lot fun, I am already thinking of some design changes. Thanks Clay for coming up with the design and idea.

[sodapop]

wow bruce!!...ya i think it would look great on some saddle related work vs traditional...

look forward to seein you use this concept in your work, with the cowboy touch

darryl

[Clay]

Bruce,

Very nice!! I am very impressed with what you came up with!!!I like the rope look and have never been very good at it. I am trying to remember if you have done a demo here on how you do the rope stamping. If you have it would be cool to see it again. (hint hint)

ClayM.

[pavilionpony]

Neat thread! it is the weekend... ...I wonder what mine would look like after a few of these? Everyones is very nice! And yes, a tutorial on the rope would be awesome....another hint bruce..... . I do too many horses. I need to start doing other things.

[hiloboy]

Bruce, i like your idea of useing rope for the Celtic design.. like sodapop said i think it would look great on saddle related stuff .. i to would like to see a demo on your rope work..great job!!

[phlegmaticdog]

I used a "sharpie metallic silver" marker on this and gave it a coat of Neat-Lac. That was a few weeks ago and I've been using it as a coaster since then so it has had some exposure to water. It still looks the same now (for better or worse).