Tooled Car Seats

[Tim Schroeder]

Here is some pictures of a drawing and the tooling. When I draw a pattern I try to make the background area as small as as possible. Then when I trace the pattern I draw outside the lines. Then after beveling and bar grounding the background areas still come out to big. The bar grounding and dying take a lot of time and the smaller the area the less work on pieces like this anyway. There is four of these. They are 2 bench seat covers going in a 71 International Harvester Travel All. The Logo was suppose to be tooled into the big piece but when I was laying it on top to see where we wanted to put it they asked if I could just sew that piece on top for some depth. Black outside with the Choc. Light Brown tooling. The basket weave border will be red with the I red and the H black. Not sure about the area around area around the IH.  

Edited May 13, 2018 by Tim Schroeder
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[KingsCountyLeather]

Wow!

Your work is absolutely amazing.

[alpha2]

WOW! That is gorgeous. Lucky old Traveall.

[garypl]

Beautiful work Tim!  I would not want to sit on them for fear of ruining all your work!

Gary

[Bodean]

Very nice work.

[bikermutt07]

Bravo, Tim, as always.

[DJole]

Are they going to go 4-wheeling, getting stuck in bogs and mudholes and streams with that gorgeous tooling on their seats?! Brave souls!

[Bob Blea]

As someone who also works to minimize the amount of bargrounding in my floral designs, I think you are doing a great job.  You have less barground space in your designs than I have in mine.  I think it looks pretty good.

Bob