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Excellent job. The face almost looks real. Great detail in the hair and beard.

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1 hour ago, immiketoo said:

Ive only been at this for 6 years.  Got my start right here.

 

Wow such awesome work! How many hours roughly for this leather work of art. 

Hope to be at this level of carving in 5 and a bit years,lol. 

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Beautiful work Mike!  Any estimate of how many hours you have into this piece?

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Sick work Mike!

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8 hours ago, bikermutt07 said:

You tellinge you only started leather work 6 years ago? Or that you only started carving 6 years ago?

Either way, your embossing is beyond any others' I have seen around here. (No offense anyone).

I always drool over your stuff.

yessir.  September, 2012.  Thank you!

8 hours ago, Scoutmom103 said:

That looks amazing.

 

Thanks, turned out nicely.

8 hours ago, TSes said:

Excellent job. The face almost looks real. Great detail in the hair and beard.

Thank you!  Facebook wanted to tag several people when I took the picture!

7 hours ago, noobleather said:

Wow such awesome work! How many hours roughly for this leather work of art. 

Hope to be at this level of carving in 5 and a bit years,lol. 

I have maybe 6 hours into this one?  The hair took a long time.

6 hours ago, garypl said:

Beautiful work Mike!  Any estimate of how many hours you have into this piece?

Gary

6-ish.

4 hours ago, battlemunky said:

Sick work Mike!

Thanks man!

 

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YOU KNOW better 'n' that... SOMETHING in the pic for SCALE :nono:

Carving looks good... kaint tell how far it raised though -- did I already mention some SCALE? :blush: 

Be nice to see how you color this one.. them grapes should be good learnin's

 

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IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.

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16 hours ago, JLSleather said:

YOU KNOW better 'n' that... SOMETHING in the pic for SCALE :nono:

Carving looks good... kaint tell how far it raised though -- did I already mention some SCALE? :blush: 

Be nice to see how you color this one.. them grapes should be good learnin's

 

It's raised just the right amount.  Too little and why bother, too much and it looks unnatural.  Scale is irrelevant, as each piece is raised just the right amount for the size of the carving, which is far more important that a static measurement of how far it's raised.  Found that one out early on in my embossing career.  I figured more is better, but it turns out there are physical limitations to embossing leather.  Especially the trade offs between the stretch of thinner leathers and the extended depth you can get with thicker leather.

This piece wont be colored, but grapes are easy.  Peter gave me a class on this exact technique.  Essentially, thinned spirit dyes in varying degrees of intensity.  Looks difficult, but it's not.

 

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Wow! Hey Mike, this is so good you can give up your day job! This ain't 'leather work'. It's leather art!

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1 hour ago, Riem said:

Wow! Hey Mike, this is so good you can give up your day job! This ain't 'leather work'. It's leather art!

I don't have a day job!  Now what do I do?

 

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