I'm A Leather Worker Noob

[Jerry791hd]

I know what you mean about being hooked the minute you walked into Tandy; it is addicting! Your work is great!

thank you.... amazing how much work went into that little pouch... I have a whole new level of respect for all the small leather projects i see everywhere.... lol

nice.... well done....

So would I Seriously I've just been doing conchos and Trail Riding ID tags up until now. And I'm 'blinging' some already made tack sets to sell so I can get some leather to do my own tack sets. I'll put on the IDs I made. One was for my partner which is how we met, and one is mine I've used at other places to advertise. I'll put on some conchos too, musta made a million of them but I was ahead or behind my time :-) Nobody wants leather conchos. Only sold the first set I ever made, but I recently put a set I made on a new tack set I bought online that I'm redyeing. And realized I had a MAJOR flaw in the design (which doesn't seem possible on something that small). I used mod podge in the gutters I made for the bling, then covered the tops with it too to help them stay glued on during use. I screwed the chicago screw in at the bit area in tight on one side, and while I was taking them off, noticed that one had a crease in it. Wasn't a crease, it was a crack. I guess since the mod podge dries so hard, which was why I used it, it also cracks under pressure. So I have a years worth of mistakes I could show you but I don't see it that way. It lead to me starting a business instead of haphazardly listing things here and there, and it also allowed me to become familiar with my tools. And now I can take the bling back off, clean it up and use it again. This is the set that cracked. I carved and tooled these, made the leaves with a pear shader then carved the edges of them. Used a tool to make the thorns, and put vintage black glass scarabs on as the blackberries. I'm just glad I learned now before I sent a set out on a tack set I made. I attached the drawing I found online I took the design from.