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Hard to believe this craftaid is 67 years old.

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Recent carving from an old craftaid I assume?  Nicely done, look forward to seeing the final version!  I have ended up with some rather old patterns and such myself, I look forward to making some of them.

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5 hours ago, YinTx said:

Recent carving from an old craftaid I assume?  Nicely done, look forward to seeing the final version!  I have ended up with some rather old patterns and such myself, I look forward to making some of them.

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Yes, working on it now. I changed the veiner and camo stamping a bit, bit for the more part I stay true to form. The original carver for the craftaid was a person named Joey. I wish I knew a little more about him. Thank for the kind words.

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I think that's Joey Smith.  How big is the design?

JLS  "Observation is 9/10 of the law."

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

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1 minute ago, JLSleather said:

I think that's Joey Smith.  How big is the design?

Thanks I will have to look him up.

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7 minutes ago, JLSleather said:

I think that's Joey Smith.  How big is the design?

You were right. Gick decided to put more focus on the leather end of the business and bought out Pauly to bring in leather carving expert Joey Smith as a partner and an instructor.  Their classes brought a lot of attention to leathercraft, catching the attention of leathercrafters such as Al Shelton, as well as artist and inventor Lou Roth.  After innovating a plastic engraving sheet to help apply patterns on to leather to expedite teaching, Roth, Gick, Smith, Al Stohlman and Dick McGahen started a company to manufacture these new “Craftaids” through the Craftool Company.

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I LOVE craftaids.  Granted, they're limiting because you're locked into that design, but I CERTAINLY recommend them for the new guy.  Lets a 'rookie' spend practice time CARVING instead of TRACING and DRAWING.  And, seriously, I STILL get asked to make those goods shown in photos from the 50's - 80's, many of which became "craftaids".  Last month I did a wallet of a Stohlman pattern from the 80's for a gal's husband, and yesterday there's an email for a belt with a design from the 50's. :o

A guy making them today could make a MINT.  Not the imitation, seen everywhere, standardized "templates" you see everywhere due to the falling cost of laser tech.  But like clicker dies, where a guy could get his own design put in a 'craftaid'...

Your carving looks good - quite smooth.  Only suggestion ... modeling spoon over the long beveled lines/curves.  Round the edges, adds a LOT of realism in the finished look for very little trouble.  Where you used a 'cam' tool along the scrolls appears more 'round' because the tool depressed the edge, "rounded" it.  A spoon do the same thing on the stems where cam not used. ANd the seed 'pods', or whatever we're calling those thingies in the flowers.

JLS  "Observation is 9/10 of the law."

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

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53 minutes ago, JLSleather said:

I LOVE craftaids.  Granted, they're limiting because you're locked into that design, but I CERTAINLY recommend them for the new guy.  Lets a 'rookie' spend practice time CARVING instead of TRACING and DRAWING.  And, seriously, I STILL get asked to make those goods shown in photos from the 50's - 80's, many of which became "craftaids".  Last month I did a wallet of a Stohlman pattern from the 80's for a gal's husband, and yesterday there's an email for a belt with a design from the 50's. :o

A guy making them today could make a MINT.  Not the imitation, seen everywhere, standardized "templates" you see everywhere due to the falling cost of laser tech.  But like clicker dies, where a guy could get his own design put in a 'craftaid'...

Your carving looks good - quite smooth.  Only suggestion ... modeling spoon over the long beveled lines/curves.  Round the edges, adds a LOT of realism in the finished look for very little trouble.  Where you used a 'cam' tool along the scrolls appears more 'round' because the tool depressed the edge, "rounded" it.  A spoon do the same thing on the stems where cam not used. ANd the seed 'pods', or whatever we're calling those thingies in the flowers.

Modeling spoon use.....on the beveled side or the other? Can you explain the 'cam' tool a little more please? Thanks

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7 hours ago, JLSleather said:

 modeling spoon over the long beveled lines/curves.  Round the edges, adds a LOT of realism in the finished look for very little trouble.  Where you used a 'cam' tool along the scrolls appears more 'round' because the tool depressed the edge, "rounded" it.  A spoon do the same thing on the stems where cam not used. ANd the seed 'pods', or whatever we're calling those thingies in the flowers.

Gotcha, That makes sense. Thanks for the tips. Certain craftaids, I feel never go out of style. A lot of them are dated and are out of style. One day I would like to beable to draw my own designs. I am going to be dating myself now, but back in 1975 I drew a mural on poster board of all the Disney characters and my dad set it to the Disney studios we got a reply back in about a month saying to send them another drawing after I was ready to graduate high school. I was so happy I was going to be a cartoonist, well I found out about girls and got side tracked lol. but anyway drawing leather design is not easy. If it were everyone would be doing it, but I am going to take a stab it

Chris

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