Members Chavez Posted June 9, 2012 Members Report Posted June 9, 2012 Hi Chavez, I would love to post more pics, but unfortunately the wallet has already been delivered to the customer quite some time ago. I made up this part as I went along. When I have time to put out some templates, I'll post pics of it. Hi Reddevil, Any chances of the coin pocket template? I'm starting another 6-pocket one, but planning to do one with coins after. Thanks in advance! Quote
reddevil76 Posted June 9, 2012 Author Report Posted June 9, 2012 Hi Reddevil, Any chances of the coin pocket template? I'm starting another 6-pocket one, but planning to do one with coins after. Thanks in advance! Hi Chavez, still haven't done a template. But I hate to disappoint, so I did these pictures on the fly. Its suppose to just give you an idea, but for sizing/spacing, you gotta figure that out on your end. I suggest you cut them out on art paper or something cheap before you commit them on leather. Good luck! Quote
Members Chavez Posted June 9, 2012 Members Report Posted June 9, 2012 Thank you reddevil! The template looks very nice. Can't wait to try it out=) Quote
Members Anacott Steel Posted June 9, 2012 Members Report Posted June 9, 2012 Hey Reddevil - im curious as to what program you have used for the templates ? I've tried to use InDesign but it's so complicated I gave up after making a rectangle ! Cheers Quote
JohnBarton Posted June 9, 2012 Report Posted June 9, 2012 A free and light vector drawing program is InkScape - you can find it via google easily. We use CorelDraw when we do patterns on the computer. You can find older versions of Corel for very little money that work perfectly fine for the needs of leatherworkers on Ebay. Look for Corel9, 10, 11, 12 and 13. I find that mocking up on paper is the trick here. We sample almost every part and element on paper and cardboard first and then in scrap leather before we commit to using the good stuff. With practice you can learn to print your patterns at exactly the right size you want. Sometimes you will need to print on two or more sheets and tape them together. Invest the time to learn to set up your printer's settings and learn and it will pay off hugely for those of you who would like to make your patterns on the computer. Lastly, try to avoid stretching your patterns if you want to change sizes. The computer is great for making patterns BUT you can get distorted easily if you start stretching the images you make. The way to do it in my opinion is to select the nodes and move them thus preserving proportions. This last bit is surely over the heads of those of you who have never used a drawing program to set up patterns. But as you get into it this will become clear. The beauty of using the computer is that you can change shapes and sizes easily. For example the credit card dividers that Reddevil shows can easily be changed to an almost infinite number of shapes and still retain function. Quote Support Quality. We are all humans. Buy the best no matter where it's made. That way everyone lives in harmony. Nature knows no flags.
reddevil76 Posted June 10, 2012 Author Report Posted June 10, 2012 Hey Reddevil - im curious as to what program you have used for the templates ? I've tried to use InDesign but it's so complicated I gave up after making a rectangle ! Cheers Hi, before this, i was using paper, pencil and a french curve set. Later on, a colleague gave me a 1995 version of MS Visio, which is what you saw. But I found that it is a very obscure software, and when I sent it to template makers, they are unable to use it. I would go with John's advise instead. Searching Corel now! Quote
Members jmkjmk2 Posted June 10, 2012 Members Report Posted June 10, 2012 you got great skills! Quote bit.ly/LeatherTools4Sale Stamps, Swivel Knives, Mallets, Modeling Tools, Etc Message me if you want to buy/sell tools
Members Chavez Posted June 10, 2012 Members Report Posted June 10, 2012 (edited) Well, since we started talking about pattern making software, my vote goes to Inkscape. Being a linux user my software choice is a bit limited, however, you don't really need much more than gimp for bitmap images and inkscape for vector graphics. Both are free. Both are available for windows (although I don't know how well they perform in an alien system) and both support graphics tablet input which sometimes comes in handy. PS vector graphics is what you need to use if you want to avoid distortion while stretching that JohnBarton is talking about. While you can draw cutting patterns right in inkscape, for carving patterns you can do the following: My usual course of digitising a hand-drawn pattern or a bitmap image from the internet is: 1) Open image in gimp; 2) Remove all colour. All you need is black and white; 3) Increase contrast (or play with light curves if you know what you're doing) to highlight curves; 4) Copy the image to inkscape 5) Transform the bitmap to path. 6) You've got your digitised carving pattern. Edited June 10, 2012 by Chavez Quote
Members Tzalabak Posted June 11, 2012 Members Report Posted June 11, 2012 (edited) I really like the look of the long wallet, it's a very nice, clean look. I'm actually using it as the inspiration of my first project. I'm just king of free-eyeing the pictures of the finished product and making up templates and prototypes that are similar, but not the same as, your design. I hope you don't mind, heh. Again, very nice items. Edited June 11, 2012 by Tzalabak Quote
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