May 2012 Challenge

[kndust]

[Here is my piece

Edited May 11, 2012 by kndust

[Sylvia]

[Here is my piece

Good job! You might want to try smoothing out those beveler marks with your modeling spoon.

Overall I think you did awesome for your first challenge. Bravo!

S

[Cyberthrasher]

Here is my piece

What tools did you use on it?

[kndust]

sorry I forgot to list tools I used swivel knife, beveler and modeling tool

What tools did you use on it?

I will thanks for the input

Good job! You might want to try smoothing out those beveler marks with your modeling spoon.

Overall I think you did awesome for your first challenge. Bravo!

S

[Cyberthrasher]

it's still great, so I really don't want to take away from the job you did by giving more advice , but I have to since that's how we all get better and succeed.

It looks like you may also need to work on your casing, and probably sharpen up the knife quite a bit. Beveling takes A LOT of practice to really get it clean looking. I struggled with it for a really long time. If your knife is anything like my beginner one was/is, all it's doing is compressing the leather and not actually cutting it. Mine came with a completely rounded edge and I used it like that for a little while stupidly thinking that that's how it was supposed to be because there's no way they'd send a knife that was supposed to be sharpened with a visibly round edge on it.

[kndust]

it's still great, so I really don't want to take away from the job you did by giving more advice , but I have to since that's how we all get better and succeed.

It looks like you may also need to work on your casing, and probably sharpen up the knife quite a bit. Beveling takes A LOT of practice to really get it clean looking. I struggled with it for a really long time. If your knife is anything like my beginner one was/is, all it's doing is compressing the leather and not actually cutting it. Mine came with a completely rounded edge and I used it like that for a little while stupidly thinking that that's how it was supposed to be because there's no way they'd send a knife that was supposed to be sharpened with a visibly round edge on it.

again thank you for the info I just got back into doing leather since haveing a stroke back in 01 so I need all the help I can get right now

[Cyberthrasher]

again thank you for the info I just got back into doing leather since haveing a stroke back in 01 so I need all the help I can get right now

Well, we're glad to have you back

I just started this year myself, so all those struggles are pretty fresh in my head (ok, they still exist).

[chancey77]

It looks like a piece of 4-5oz leather which is very thin, so you can't really get to deep with the knife. It juts looks to me that the beveling and spoon smashed the knife marks.

I know very well cause that is what I ended up using for the door panels, but the trick with leather that thin is not to do to much other than the cuts and a light bevel.

Thanks for participating!

I am way to swamped this month to do this challenge but I will enjoy the back seat:) LOL

[WScott]

I have three designs ready to go, but no time to get them started.

Maybe with the May long weekend (Victoria Day in Canada)..I've got a 4 days off, sort of.

[DoubleC]

Sylvia, yours make me ashamed to put up what I have so far. I did this last night for the seat of a camp stool. The picture is a fire dragon so I still have to do all the cracks in the dragon before I start the coloring process. But it was so fun to do something that was ALMOST not work related. I'm going to use the camp stool at the farmers market so it still is kinda. But it was so fun to do something other than an eye looking back at me. So this is dragon 1 and I hope you don't mind me putting it up as i progress because I haven't had time to enter in a challenge in so long. I'm just taking the time right now.

I used a stylus, swivel knife, beveler, and pear shader (I STILL don't have any background tools) The cracks in the dragon will be done with the stylus from looking at the picture.