latest project

[Clay]

Morning everyone

I finished this celtic belt and thought I would share it. It is colored with spirit dyes and antique paste. The belt is a one inch dress belt. The knotwork is only a half inch so it was a little tight doing the tooling.

ClayM.

[calanneh]

Looks nice Clay! I like it!

William

[UKRay]

That is a very nice looking belt, Clay. How long did it take to carve?

[Luke Hatley]

TIGHT TOOLING INDEED. ONE FINE LOOKING BELT...............

[Clay]

That is a very nice looking belt, Clay. How long did it take to carve?

Well The first time I tried to start this belt I was having a hard time getting the pattern traced down to the leather, then the swicelknife cuts were not coming out the way I wanted so I contacted Jeff Mosby and he made me a stamp that was able to cut the knotwork into the leather making it a lot faster neater and easier. It took away the tracing and swivelknife work so all I had to do was bevel and background. For the background I ground down a A-104 background tool to about one third of the origional size for the tiny areas.

Thanks,

ClayM.

[wildrose]

That is gorgeous. I was going to say that was way more knotwork than I'd want to do (carving/tooling)...then I read about the "help" you got! Smart move!

[hidepounder]

Way to go Clay!.....that was a "heads up move"! Very nice!