Froghunter Report post Posted January 17, 2008 Hello All! New Member here in Florida. I have been doing leather work for about 5 years, although I did dabble back in the 70's while in 4-h and Scouts. I work for Tandy, but please don't let that skew your opinion of me! I have been tooling leather for about 7 months. Although I am getting better, I still have much to gleen, so when a friend and customer told me about this place, I had to come over. I am blown away by the quality of work I am seeing. I hope that my carving will be up to par some day. I will hopefully learn to post pics soon and give a sample of my work. I will try to upload one fo my first REAL carvings of a carhop...let's see if this works. Oh, and I have tough skin......constructive critisism is cheerfully accepted. But do remember this is one of my first, so a lot of what is wrong I have been trying to correct! Thanks for reading this long rant...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rdb Report post Posted January 17, 2008 That's a kewl pic Froggy. Welcome to the Board. Watch out for the donut throwers, and keep posting pix. We love 'em Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wolvenstien Report post Posted January 17, 2008 Welcome Froggy, nice carving.... like the car and the chicky.... And dont worry, we wont hold it against you.... we love all our suppliers.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Froghunter Report post Posted January 17, 2008 Welcome Froggy, nice carving.... like the car and the chicky.... And dont worry, we wont hold it against you.... we love all our suppliers.... Thanks for the kind words! The artwork is my own, the original drawing was handed off to my tattoo artist and she inked it on my left calf. I made the leather hanging as a "thank you" and she proudly displays it at her shop. as for being a "supplier" I was a leatherworker first! =0) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beaverslayer Report post Posted January 17, 2008 Welcome again Frog, glad to see you're finding your way around okay. Great looking picture. Ken Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Roger Report post Posted January 17, 2008 welcome froghunter! i really like the design! your lacing looks fairly consistant. the biggest thing i see you need to work on is your beveling. looks like you are moving the bevel too far with each tap of the tool. you should only move your bevel about a quarter of the width of the tool at a time. walk the tool in smaller steps and it will smooth out for you Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Don101 Report post Posted January 17, 2008 Hi Froghunter welcome to the forum, i like the hot rod pic its really cool, Don Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abn Report post Posted January 17, 2008 I work for Tandy, but please don't let that skew your opinion of me! Tandy's Richmond store is a favorite hang-out of mine... Believe me, I won't hold it against you! Nice work, by the way, and... Alex Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
David Report post Posted January 17, 2008 Cool Artwork it would make a nice old school bike seat! Keep up the good work and welcome to Leatherworker.net David Theobald Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
David Fields Report post Posted January 17, 2008 I like your design. Welcome to the forum Froghunter. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freak Report post Posted January 17, 2008 Welcome Willy, glad you decided to join us. That's waaaaaayyyy better then any of my first carving !! I like your style man. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Randyc Report post Posted January 18, 2008 Frog, Welcome to the forum Randy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kagekeeper Report post Posted January 31, 2008 if any of you have seen frogs other pics u will see how far he has come. i am a constant thorn in his side at the shop , spending most of my free time bugging him their. he is a great teacher and has alot of patients. i used to work a little with leather helping my father over 30 years ago and got all his tools form him about 8mo back. considering i was 7 or 8 when i tinkered with him i am VERY much the beginner now at 40 and frogs encouragement keeps me wanting to do more and better. it will be a shame when he leaves ORLANDO because cause there are very few i call 'FRIENDS' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
