2 finger carved bird

[bobocat]

The work is just used the swivelknife to cut out.But I hope you will like it.

It's just only used the cutted line to show the fluent,beautiful feeling.

[wildrose]

That is beautiful! It reminds me of the Pennsylvania Dutch artwork I saw alot around Lancaster.

[BradB]

Bobcat - you do such amazing work I would love to be able to watch you work so I could see how you produce such beautiful leather! Keep posting!!!

[bustedlifter]

Outstanding!!!

[Pip]

Stunning!! Wow.

[BearMan]

Outstanding Work!!

[Howling Wolf Leather]

Great Job Bobcat

WC

[birchart]

You sir are a true craftsman

[TroyWest]

Bobocat,

I really love your 2 finger carving. Could you share with us how you created the mirror image effect?

[JohnBarton]

Bobocat,

I really love your 2 finger carving. Could you share with us how you created the mirror image effect?

Bobcat was at my place last night and I was asked to ask him this question.

He said that he laid out the design on the computer and simply reversed the image and then crossed it a little. Then when he transferred it to the leather he only did the large outlines and did the detail by freehand. Thus you can see that even though the base image is the same the detail is different on each side.

Folks I have to tell you that Bobocat is a cool cat. He is totally committed to the art of leather tooling. Myself, Zhen Hai, Long Wei, Bobocat's friend Kevin, and my wife had a lovely evening discussing leather working, philosophy of design, the zen of teaching others and other topics.

Just an example of how committed he is; he told us that when he sees something that someone else did he will print a picture and tape it to his wall and think about it for a month. Then he will tool it and a year later he will do another one to compare his skill to the previous year's work. He doesn't do customer orders, he makes what he wants to make and sells his work accordingly. He won't put a customer's name on his work. He said that it only has value if it only has my name on it. Not talking about sentimental value here :-)

I thoroughly enjoyed the evening and hope that next time Bobocat is in our area I can hire him to do a clinic in our shop. We have already improved just based on the small amount of instruction he gave us last night.