Archer bracer pattern

[Meleck]

It's a very nice pattern that I might poach. Always wondered how I would set-up an archery bracher that had the string aligned with the pinky finger.

Your Thor hammer bracer looks great. I think the colors look great together and the carving is n_i_c_e. I would be awefully proud to own that one.

[TomSwede]

Thank you Meleck!

Go ahead and use the pattern or modify to your needs.

I be thrilled to see others interpretations of it wich is one reason I put it up here.

Welcome to Leatherworker! This a great place were the spirit is high!

Tom

[rdb]

Thanx for sharing, Tom! Could you show a pic showing the side laced up?

[leatheroo]

great work tom, thanks

[TwinOaks]

Very nice work Tom. Dang. Another pattern I just have to try.

[TomSwede]

Thanx for sharing, Tom! Could you show a pic showing the side laced up?

Oh right, I put a post it note this time over my desktop to remember. I just have my *ss full so I keep forgetting it.

thank you Roo and Twinoaks, yeah I have a huge "must do it sometime list" too, lol.

[custom79]

Great work. I make a quite a bit of cowboy gear and have put together cowboy working cuffs which look like a similar project.

Cheers.

C79

[cem]

Thankyou Tom for the pattern and explanation, my partner saw that raw picture when i was looking at your blog and decided that I would be making him one. I really loved that Raw look on your latest bracer, but it's definately come up really well with the gold and bronze on the black.

Thanks again

Cheers,

Clair

[TomSwede]

Thank you C79 and Clair!

Are the used for any special reason in the cowboy world (like mine is really for archers) or just decorative? (I make mine mainly for good looks, 1 archer so far).

I agree with you Clair but being a heavy metal man myself I just have to live with making some black. Metallics are very good to accent the tooling with since they apply on top of the black and is not streaky either. I really liked them better naked. Glad to hear people find their way into my blog.

Tom

[TomSwede]

I was finally able to take a pic of how this one's stringed together at the outer side of the arm. Left arm in this case. This is the smaller female version of the previous one and that's why there's such a huge gap in the stringing area. It looks fine this way too but we've talked about the contours of this bracer to marry the joint against the hand and that's where this one fails to be put to use on my arm. A regular shaped bracer doesn't really need (for function) to be all away around the arm with just a small gap in the stringing area. That's just my personal pref and I have had customers requesting a huge gap since they love look of the crossed stringing.

tom