What Blade?

[reddevil76]

May i know if what he is using is a beader blade?

If yes, why is 2 passes necessary?

[electrathon]

He is using a beader blade. The first pass is being cut light because he is bacicly freehanding it. Once he establishes a line he then cuts it deep.

Aaron

[McJeep]

So far I've watched about four of these vids - at this point I'm undecided as to whether this guy is motivating me to push harder to improve my knife skills, or to just give up and take up gardening! LMAO

Back to you tube I go for some more punishment ;0) Picking up some good pointers just watching this

Thanks for the link!

Rob

[reddevil76]

This guy is not only good, he is fast!

[Sylvia]

So far I've watched about four of these vids - at this point I'm undecided as to whether this guy is motivating me to push harder to improve my knife skills, or to just give up and take up gardening! LMAO

Back to you tube I go for some more punishment ;0) Picking up some good pointers just watching this

Thanks for the link!

Rob

I just hope he speaks or writes English well enough that I can ask him questions.

[reddevil76]

He is in japan, because one of the videos where he is dyeing some leather, he was using a Japanese newspaper underneath.

However in certain shots, it seems he is a Caucasian. Not Japanese. And the music he is blasting away in the background is usually rock n roll. So he could well be a Caucasian living in Japan.

[sandycreek]

Hi All,

Is it my imagination and lack of screen contrast or did he cut that whole pattern basically freehand? If so.... I think I shall also just go back to gardening...

-Aaron

EDIT: sorry. for reference purposes I am looking at "muvie0004.avi"

Edited February 13, 2012 by sandycreek

[Suicide]

Is it my imagination and lack of screen contrast or did he cut that whole pattern basically freehand? If so.... I think I shall also just go back to gardening...

You shouldn't go gardening, he has pattern transferred on the leather for sure, you can see it in some of movies

[snapmyfengerleatherwork]

The border tool he is using looks like it is made of a medal-type product. The plastic ones I buy break after several attempts to use, probably tightening screw to much. Does anyone know where to find the medal ones?

[HellfireJack]

Suicide, In one of the videos it shows that he free hand draws his patterns on the leather with a modelling tool. The only template I've seen him use is a simple circle template for the basic placement of the flowers.

It looks like he's been doing this a long time and from the stacks of leather cut outs he's working on he's probably done thousands of each item he's making and has simply memorized the process. There is no doubt that this guy has truly mastered these items. It's amazing to watch him do it. If I asked you to draw a simple line drawing 5000 times by about the 300th one you should have it memorized and be able to do them without a reference.

For what it's worth, From the title spellings of his videos he is probably Japanese. He has a verbal knowledge of English but not too good at the written side. "muvie" = movie "wacht" = watch and so on. Also the Japanese love American music just as much as they love American baseball. It's no surprise to me that a Japanese person would listen to it while working.

Has anyone every worked with the sonic cutter he uses? Wondering what they cost and how easy/hard they are to use. Not that I'll ever probably need one....