Ok. Let's see' em........

[bikermutt07]

5 hours ago, Bodean said:

 

Thanks for that, Bodean. I used to tell people we couldn't imagine it either, but we had to go thru it.

On the other note, I wouldn't mind a few orders but I can't do tooling or much with stamping. It makes my hands and wrists just feel like they are in fire. I work some pretty physical construction and I have to save the pain for the 40 hour week. Plus, hobbies shouldn't be painful ( unless you're sadomasochistic ).

5 hours ago, cjartist said:

Here is mine.  I didn't post it earlier in this thread because I thought some would not believe it was my first.    Now that i see other great firsts, I've decided to have a go too.  The only thing I did prior to this was a small 3 inch phoenix carving on a scrap piece of leather to practice.  This took a few months to complete.

 

Champagne problems, CJ. Champagne problems.....

It reminds me of the first tattoo I got. If I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna drive right in and go big. I got this when I was 18.

 

Edited March 31, 2017 by bikermutt07

[kellyblues]

First thing I ever tooled was when I took a class several years ago with Jim Linnell during the IFLOG show in Indianapolis. I had made small pouches and such for years before I got into tooling. This is my very first tooling in my life.

[Bodean]

3 hours ago, bikermutt07 said:

Thanks for that, Bodean. I used to tell people we couldn't imagine it either, but we had to go thru it.

On the other note, I wouldn't mind a few orders but I can't do tooling or much with stamping. It makes my hands and wrists just feel like they are in fire. I work some pretty physical construction and I have to save the pain for the 40 hour week. Plus, hobbies shouldn't be painful ( unless you're sadomasochistic ).

 

 

I too work construction. Tooling hurts me if I do it any extended time. I take lots of breaks. I push myself till my hand goes numb sometimes. No pain no gain, lol. I guess????

 

[bikermutt07]

43 minutes ago, Bodean said:

I too work construction. Tooling hurts me if I do it any extended time. I take lots of breaks. I push myself till my hand goes numb sometimes. No pain no gain, lol. I guess????

 

Yeah, not doing it. Maybe a little stamping on a bracelet or belt, but mostly just for me.

[Bodean]

47 minutes ago, bikermutt07 said:

Yeah, not doing it. Maybe a little stamping on a bracelet or belt, but mostly just for me.

I am looking at taking some SS tattoo tube grips I have and modifying them to hold stamping tools to provide a larger handle for easier gripping. I notice the smaller handle ones hurt more to grip.

[bikermutt07]

True that. 

My boss has had me ripping apart showers for months now, it seems. I just have to reserve my hands for the job site.

[Bodean]

2 minutes ago, bikermutt07 said:

True that. 

My boss has had me ripping apart showers for months now, it seems. I just have to reserve my hands for the job site.

Been there done that many times. Zero fun.

[kellyblues]

I've been a professional mechanic all of my adult life. It's taken a toll on my hands. And my elbows,kness , back and shoulders. If I have a large project to tool I do it in stages. I've gotten pretty good at covering parts with saran wrap and letting my hands rest.

[HENDREFORGAN]

I'm enjoying the history of this forum thread for within it is an inestimable total of decades of leather working experience.  Thank you @bikermutt07 for a superb idea.

In my own case my first ever project is long gone but just under roughly fifty years ago I made a simple wrist support in leather, it was tan leather and the two rectangular pieces were bound together face outwards by lacing around the edges through punched holes.  It was secured by large pop-studs.  I can neither remember where I got the materials from or the tools either, nor why I chose to make this item this way.  I do remember that in my late teens I broke my right wrist badly playing ice-hockey and for many years cold or damp weather made it ache.  I reckon that was the reason why I made some kind of support.

Your thread @bikermutt07 has reminded me of that first simple piece and, when I think of the complicated articles I've made over the years especially for museum displays, I have to stop and say  . . wow, what a ride that has been.  Yet it all started with what was certainly a very poorly made amateurish piece.  Very much the case of  . . "from an acorn an oak will grow".  Thank you for the reminder. 

[bikermutt07]

6 hours ago, HENDREFORGAN said:

I'm enjoying the history of this forum thread for within it is an inestimable total of decades of leather working experience.  Thank you @bikermutt07 for a superb idea.

In my own case my first ever project is long gone but just under roughly fifty years ago I made a simple wrist support in leather, it was tan leather and the two rectangular pieces were bound together face outwards by lacing around the edges through punched holes.  It was secured by large pop-studs.  I can neither remember where I got the materials from or the tools either, nor why I chose to make this item this way.  I do remember that in my late teens I broke my right wrist badly playing ice-hockey and for many years cold or damp weather made it ache.  I reckon that was the reason why I made some kind of support.

Your thread @bikermutt07 has reminded me of that first simple piece and, when I think of the complicated articles I've made over the years especially for museum displays, I have to stop and say  . . wow, what a ride that has been.  Yet it all started with what was certainly a very poorly made amateurish piece.  Very much the case of  . . "from an acorn an oak will grow".  Thank you for the reminder. 

Glad you are enjoying it.