Good youtube videos for beginners?

[immiketoo]

2 minutes ago, Raksha said:

Is there somwwhere online I cant get those? With worldvide shipping? 

The only place is from Bob.  He does ship internationally.  You'll have to call him or message him on FB.  Problem is he's REALLY busy.  Like think a year wait list.

 

[Raksha]

1 minute ago, immiketoo said:

The only place is from Bob.  He does ship internationally.  You'll have to call him or message him on FB.  Problem is he's REALLY busy.  Like think a year wait list.

 

Thanks! I'm in no hurry  

 

[immiketoo]

I'll talk to him and see if I can't get my hands on a few for distribution.

 

[Raksha]

3 minutes ago, immiketoo said:

I'll talk to him and see if I can't get my hands on a few for distribution.

 

Give me a hint if you do, and send international :D  

 

[immiketoo]

I'm international too. No worries.

 

[Raksha]

I saw that now, just asumed you where "over there", sorry    

[Railrider1920]

1 hour ago, immiketoo said:

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..... I use B2 through B6.  If you want to see a close up, let me know.

If you're interested, I can put together a short segment on Celtic carving for you since it's not too complicated, you just need to follow the formula and pay attention to the details.

If you have the time for the close up pic of the tools, that would be very nice.

If you happen to have time to do a video on the celtic work, that would be great. Thanks!  That Oden is something else. Wow. Beautiful work. So faces like that is called figure carving? Good to know. Are there other types of carving? All I know of right now is western/floral, celtic and figure.

16 minutes ago, Raksha said:

I'll talk to him and see if I can't get my hands on a few for distribution.

Let me know too if you would lol.

 

Johana, thanks for letting me know about that site.

[immiketoo]

13 minutes ago, Raksha said:

I saw that now, just asumed you where "over there", sorry    

No worries, I used to be.  Then I fell in love, retired and moved to the old country.

12 minutes ago, Railrider1920 said:

If you have the time for the close up pic of the tools, that would be very nice.

If you happen to have time to do a video on the celtic work, that would be great. Thanks!  That Oden is something else. Wow. Beautiful work. So faces like that is called figure carving? Good to know. Are there other types of carving? All I know of right now is western/floral, celtic and figure.

Let me know too if you would lol.

 

Johana, thanks for letting me know about that site.

Anything that involves something living other than plants is probably considered figure carving.  There are as many debates about this as there are leather workers, but I classify them like this.  Geometric and basketweave go together.  Animals, people, and many logos and symbols fall into figure carving.  Floral covers flowers, plants and acanthus.  Pictorial covers scenery, mountains, trees, structures etc.  Celtic could almost be its own category, although many viking images involve a bit of figure as well.  There may be more I am forgetting and I'm sure others can fill in the blanks.

[billybopp]

  If you are looking to learn how to carve and tool leather, most YouTube videos are too brief to really learn a lot from.  Not that it's hard to do, but a single ten minute video just can't show you all that much no matter how skilled the teacher is, and some of those are better than others.   One of the best I've found, by a true master, is Tandy's video series by Jim Linnell.  He takes you through tooling and making a wallet from beginning to end.  The pattern for cutting leather and tooling can be found at  https://www.leathercraftlibrary.com/download/K33pit53cr3t/Blog_Project_Patterns/TLF_BillfoldBlog_1115.pdf  .   Bear in mind that it's sponsored by Tandy and references their tools and supplies, but of course you don't HAVE to buy their stuff. 

And, of course, as mentioned above, LearnLeather is a great resource with some free and some paid content.  Also as mentioned above Ian Atkinson and Nigel Armitage both have very good content on YouTube, but are more oriented toward leather project construction techniques than toward carving/tooling.  Others that are worth a look include Don Gonzales, Serge Volken, TandyLeatherfactory,  and UKSaddlery.  There are others that are good to be sure, and quite a few more that are not so good.

Hope that helps

-Bill

[Railrider1920]

Bill, thanks for the info aND additional links.