Suggestions Please!

[benlilly1]

Leather workers, Here is a photo of what I'm working on. I need this to look like a bullet hole and it will be in black leather. I got the image off of the internet but when tooled it looks like a odd flower. I need depth where the bullet goes through and any suggestions otherwise I'd appreciate. Thanks a bunch!

[woodandsteel]

Shoot it?

[benlilly1]

I guess that would work!!

Shoot it?

[dirtclod]

I've never tried a bullet hole. Maybe if you really bevel the edges down and then do the same thing inside where the hole is. Might work might not. The one you have done looks pretty neat to me.

If you were to shoot it your going to have round hole nothing like what your going for.

[benlilly1]

Also because it's on black I can't get any depth to show up so I have to make up for that in how I bevel or tool.

I've never tried a bullet hole. Maybe if you really bevel the edges down and then do the same thing inside where the hole is. Might work might not. The one you have done looks pretty neat to me.

If you were to shoot it your going to have round hole nothing like what your going for.

[pete]

I wouldn't out a border around it. Jagged hole and lots of spiderwebbing/cracks.

Have you seen the fake (plastic, clear, stick on) bullet holes that you get at a joke store to make it look like someone shot your windshield?

Check out google for joke stores, pranks, etc.

pete

[dirtclod]

Just though a petal lifter might work. What about dry bushing some silver or gray highlights if it has to be black.

Edited September 25, 2011 by dirtclod

[benlilly1]

Thanks Pete I'll check that out and I'll try without border... dirtclod- I thought of that but I've never petal lifted. I would like to learn but I need the tool to do this also.

[dirtclod]

You can make a petal lifter out a screw driver or a awl. Cut the end off and and grind or sand a bevel on it. Strop it and your ready to go. try lifting on a scrap piece it's easy.

[moeg]

I thought i'd give it a try and it's either a bullet hole or a blob.

The only tools used were a modeling spoon and the other end of a background tool

Sorry about the quality of the pic, it's from my cell phone.

Moe

[Blackey Cole]

Try using a Sheridan beveler instead of the crafttool ones, the angle is steeper, Also fill the "hole" in using a USMC Black instead of the common black. It looks as you are using the sprit dyes instead of oil dyes. Myself I prefer the latter.

[Dwight]

The problem is that you are trying to use the wrong image. That image is of a bullet hole that has gone through a piece of sheet metal that has both a final coating and a primer coating. The square like frame around the hole is designed to look like the primer, . . .

Typically, . . . that is the image of a bullet hole in a car body.

Enclosed is a 240 grain, jacketed hollow point, +/- 700 feet per second, .45 caliber, at about 8 feet, . . . going through a 9 oz piece of veggie tan. The quarter is to help you determine the relative size.

May God bless,

Dwight

[Slider]

I have never tried this buy you might try using an undercut beveler to make it look more like the edges are rolled back. by the bullet.

Leather workers, Here is a photo of what I'm working on. I need this to look like a bullet hole and it will be in black leather. I got the image off of the internet but when tooled it looks like a odd flower. I need depth where the bullet goes through and any suggestions otherwise I'd appreciate. Thanks a bunch!

[benlilly1]

Thanks for all the replies everyone. And thanks for the photo Dwight. That helps.

[Ladykahu]

Gotta love this forum !!!

Only here would someone go and shoot a bit of leather for someone else to see what it really looks like !

Gave me a good chuckle

thanks guys

[Suicide]

Only here would someone go and shoot a bit of leather for someone else to see what it really looks like !

Seriously, guys, don't waste a time on carving these holes.

Bring your masterpieces to Mr. Dwight to let him make his nice decorative shots!

And remember leather must be properly cased to help Mr. Dwight do great, deep and crisp holes

Sorry for flood but I also gotta love this forum for such a great guys here!

[BIGGUNDOCTOR]

If you can't have a hole completely through the item, take something like the handle used for 3-D stamps, or whatever caliber you want, and use that to do the hole. Then bevel down to the depth of the flattened area in a smooth radius, rough edged, or whatever look you want to portray.. Where I see a problem is getting it to stand out as a hole, and not just a decorative design. Like Dwight showed, a real bullet hole has a darker ring which is caused by lead ,or bullet lube, rubbing off onto the item shot. As the bullet pierces the item it curves in before opening up. On soft targets like paper, or leather the sides will spring back after the bullet passes through. That is for standard shaped bullets. Wadcutters, bullets that have a flat nose, and are used in target shooting, will actually punch a hole like a hole punch. To get this to show up as a bullet hole I feel that you will need to highlight it in some fashion.

[Sylvia]

Gotta love this forum !!!

Only here would someone go and shoot a bit of leather for someone else to see what it really looks like !

Gave me a good chuckle

thanks guys

Ha ha ha... I completely agree. Awesome job Dwight. If that darned leather isn't cooperating.... Shoot it! LOL

[Northmount]

If you are imitating the look of a hole through black painted metal, like your bike fender, the hole is a shadow and won't be as "black" as the black paint. If there is light on the other side, then it will be a bright spot.