celtic project

[Tangent Creations]

I did it! I wanted to do this as a personal assignment and to work on my carving and highlighting skills. This was my very first completed carving project, start to finish. I did however alter some of the materials. I was NOT about to use carriage bolts on this with simple thin straps for the back. Instead I made a rolled handle and a flat folded arm strap and then used cut tacks to put them on. Much more period! Anyhoo, what do you think?

[ETW Grumpy]

I don't think your carving and highlighting skills need any work. How did you get the different shades on different areas? Did you have to dye/antique/stain/highlight each area individually? That's a beautiful piece.

[Tangent Creations]

Thank You! I resisted the light areas with varnish then antiqued the whole thing. Different areas of the leather came out different shades (besides the highly textured background and resisted areas) for a nifty effect that I wasn't expecting. I'm very happy with how it turned out personally, but have gotten alot of guff for it being a tandy design (from some local Larp'ers) but I haven't seen anyone else attempt it...

Being able to complete it really boosted my confidence in tooling as well, even though I don't do the real deep carving *yet* :biggrin:

[Beaverslayer]

Thats a beautiful piece Tangent. The color is very stunning.

What diameter is it?

Ken

[Tangent Creations]

Thank You! The full diameter of the targe is roughly 24 inches.

[Prince]

Very cool. Is that the one pictured on the tandy site, or one inspired by it? Either way, its quite good. I've been tempted to try the design myself.

[bustedlifter]

Beautiful,just beautiful!

[abn]

That is truly beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Alex

[ClayB]

I did it! I wanted to do this as a personal assignment and to work on my carving and highlighting skills. This was my very first completed carving project, start to finish. I did however alter some of the materials. I was NOT about to use carriage bolts on this with simple thin straps for the back. Instead I made a rolled handle and a flat folded arm strap and then used cut tacks to put them on. Much more period! Anyhoo, what do you think?

That's your first completed carving project? WOW! I dont get into the celtic designs much myself but that is really, really nice. The coloring really sets it off. Thanks for sharing the pictures and I hope we get to see more of your work in the future.

Clay

[Tangent Creations]

Thank you all!

Azmal, yes, it is the one on the Tandy site. Give it a go! It was a fun project for me, but very time consuming. Now that I know more about what I'm doing, I can make these type of projects much faster.

I love Celtic art and really enjoy tooling it. I'm really trying hard not to limit myself just to celtic, I am also working on figure carving as well.

Here is another Tandy inspired project that I did as a wall hanging.