New Project in progress: Music Case

[RockyAussie]

Oh well .... Who the hell wants to be Regular anyway, I'd rather be %#$* REAL anyday     ...

[Windrider30]

26 minutes ago, RockyAussie said:

Oh well .... Who the hell wants to be Regular anyway, I'd rather be %#$* REAL anyday     ...

Lol wife thinks I am crazy asi just use duct tape when bleeding stops the blood and makes stabbing myself just a little harder!!!

[RhodesAveDesigns]

Thx for the info. The Tandy leather photographs nicely, if that's any consolation, with a nice color/ variegation. The one time I went to Tandy to see about a sale leather, there was none of that particular product to be found, the "Miscellaneous/Sale" bin was terrible, and the employees were rude; if not for the Internet, I would never have begun leatherwork as a hobby.

Your projects tend to be beautiful, so "prototyping" may not be terribly necessary (until it is, and then you'd be upset about "wasting" materials, so there probably is no winning in this debate). I wish you and your thumb a speedy recovery.

"You see, leather, wood, and metal workers cut and stab themselves with alarming regularity.   Regular folk don't do that!" - Add glassworkers to that list! In addition to being a klutz, far too many of my hobbies involve inadvertent blood donations.

- Elizabeth

 

[Grey Drakkon]

On 8/7/2017 at 5:08 PM, YinTx said:

 Of course, putting a liner in as an after thought has compromised the edge work, but it is what it is.  Open to comments as I progress!

 

Oh, yeah, those edges just look like total crap.  --__--  Seriously beautiful work, as always.  Also, you followed the key rule, which is don't bleed on the artwork.  (floors, clothes, and fish are permissible.)

[kiwican]

3 hours ago, Grey Drakkon said:

(floors, clothes, and fish are permissible.)

Ha, that's funny, as a kid I used to keep Cichlids that were pretty aggressive, used to feed them ground beef sometimes from the end of my finger. From time to time they would latch on and draw blood

[Grey Drakkon]

You tease the fish-o, you get the bite-o.  ;D

[YinTx]

On 8/10/2017 at 0:47 PM, Grey Drakkon said:

Oh, yeah, those edges just look like total crap.  --__--  Seriously beautiful work, as always.  Also, you followed the key rule, which is don't bleed on the artwork.  (floors, clothes, and fish are permissible.)

I'll take a photo of a not so good edge.   And I remembered that key rule, which I learned in the beginning when I was reading about stitching... at the time, I was thinking, "What are they talking about?"  I soon found out.   

The thumb seems a bit better, so I made a little progress today, now taking a break to let the forearms recover on ice.

YinTx

 

 

 

 

[YinTx]

On 8/10/2017 at 0:47 PM, Grey Drakkon said:

Oh, yeah, those edges just look like total crap.  --__--  Seriously beautiful work, as always.  Also, you followed the key rule, which is don't bleed on the artwork.  (floors, clothes, and fish are permissible.)

As promised, a pic of the not so great edge, caused by trying to trim the suede only due to putting the liner in after the leather has been cut to size.

Here is the last edge, dyed and ready for burnishing:

Getting closer to finishing!

YinTx

[plinkercases]

This looks great so far and looking forward to more (non gore) pictures.

One of the reasons I stared wearing vinyl gloves when sticking was to keep the blood in the glove and off the leather!!! Recently stitched a lot and had a great pokes and scraps but luckily no gushes.  Interestingly enough the tacky stuff I was trying on my fingers may have helped slow any bleeding... just  theory and I won't intentionally test it but will keep an eye on it. I now much prefer no gloves as I can "feel" what I am doing better. 

The idea of using a rubber block on the back die at times is brilliant.

Heal well and fast.

[Grey Drakkon]

Yin, if that's the worst part of the entire bag, then you don't have much to worry about.  Looks like it's really shaping up!