Members Dwight Posted September 28, 2021 Members Report Posted September 28, 2021 I have a couple of junk basket weave tools that may become fishing weights or something. I have read in the past that there are some really good ones out there . . . especially one that has little "horns" on each end . . . line em up and your spacing is always perfect one person said. I just need someone to point me in the right direction as to where to buy them . . . have a basket weave job coming up . . . ain't using the junk tools any more. Will pass the job if nothing else. May God bless, Dwight Quote If you can breathe, . . . thank God. If you can read, . . . thank a teacher. If you are reading this in English, . . . thank a veteran. www.dwightsgunleather.com
Members bland Posted September 28, 2021 Members Report Posted September 28, 2021 I have been happy with the Barry King basket stamps. There are quite a few different designs, styles and sizes. Quote
Contributing Member fredk Posted September 28, 2021 Contributing Member Report Posted September 28, 2021 I got one from this chap https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/tuningstarltd?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 He's located in Bulgaria but afair he posts from Germany, and post to me from there was 3 days. It might take a week or two to the US, but it may be worth it (?) The one I got is plain but I don't see it on his list anymore https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/m.html?item=264500459452&_ssn=tuningstarltd&_osacat=0&hash=item3d9574b7bc%3Ag%3AnEUAAOSwNMZdpuXz&_odkw=&_from=R40&_trksid=p2046732.m570.l1313&_nkw=basketweave&_sacat=0 They are well made. They make a sharp impression. And as you want, wee alignment 'horns' on the corners. See on this one https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263862086180?hash=item3d6f67ea24:g:rU8AAOSwfSJbYZb0 TBH, I've only done a few wee lines with my tool, never yet done a full piece Actually, I like the look of this one https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264500462164?hash=item3d9574c254:g:h0gAAOSwqApdpucm I just might buy one Quote Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..
PastorBob Posted September 28, 2021 Report Posted September 28, 2021 Sergey makes a good one and you can get it from Springfield leather. Fairly reasonably priced if I remember correctly. His stamps are designed to line up real nice. SLC can get them to you real quick. (Based on the image in @fredk link above, I believe it is a Sergey stamp as well. Quote In God's Grace, Pastor Bob "While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." - Romans 5:8 www.PastorBobLeather.com YouTube Channel
Members YinTx Posted September 28, 2021 Members Report Posted September 28, 2021 (edited) +1 for Sergey. You can find them on ebay, amazon, Springfield leather, and direct from the man himself. They typically have a "key" that allows them to fit into the previous impression. Even the ones that don't are pretty easy to line up. - my experience is with his unusual geometrics, I don't have any of his plain basketweave stamps. However, he does make basket stamps with multiple impressions, this really really helps - makes the job faster, and those 4 marks are perfectly aligned! YinTx edit: I just checked out his site, looks like the baskets are groups of 3, some of the other geometrics like scales etc come up to groups of 4 in a single stamp. Edited September 28, 2021 by YinTx Quote YinTx https://www.instagram.com/lanasia_2017/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK6HvLWuZTzjt3MbR0Yhcj_WIQIvchezo
Members Cattledude Posted September 28, 2021 Members Report Posted September 28, 2021 + 1 for Barry King, I use them on my saddles. Very nice imprint and easier to run than the cheap stamps. Quote
Members Scootch Posted September 28, 2021 Members Report Posted September 28, 2021 Do you have a style or pattern you're interested in? I find the smaller the stamp the more difficult it is not to have a crooked one, especially a smaller stamp on thicker leather. I also do better making my first row of stamps on the same side of the layout line. Some folks alternate each side of the layout line on the first pass. I find this approach more to be difficult. Scootch Quote
Members Dwight Posted September 29, 2021 Author Members Report Posted September 29, 2021 5 hours ago, Scootch said: Do you have a style or pattern you're interested in? I find the smaller the stamp the more difficult it is not to have a crooked one, especially a smaller stamp on thicker leather. I also do better making my first row of stamps on the same side of the layout line. Some folks alternate each side of the layout line on the first pass. I find this approach more to be difficult. Scootch Actually, Scootch . . . just a common basket weave will do for me. Being as honest as I can . . . I'd rather hand sew a 55 inch gun belt . . . than stamp anything. I've never been able to really get much more than a couple patterns to work like I want them to. And that is only a basic border stamping. I have a "one of a kind" project for a Texan . . . he wanted it to have a Texas flavor to it . . . and I just wanted to basket weave some of the smaller parts . . . but the cheap garbage Tandy stamps I've got . . . won't do it . . . and just as soon as I get a decent one or two . . . they're liable to wind up being ballast for the local garbage truck. Thanks to all of you for your suggestions . . . one of them will probably work out . . . Sergey and Barry King will get my attention for the time being . . . and we'll go from there. May God bless, Dwight Quote If you can breathe, . . . thank God. If you can read, . . . thank a teacher. If you are reading this in English, . . . thank a veteran. www.dwightsgunleather.com
Members Dwight Posted October 9, 2021 Author Members Report Posted October 9, 2021 Well . . . I went out to my shop . . . thinking I had a couple of old basket weave stamps I got years ago from Tandy. Watched a video on "how to" . . . and started messing with it. Would just like you guys that do this . . . give me an honest . . . brutal if necessary . . . assessment of the second thing I did a basket weave on. It is a box that will be folded up and the basket weave follow around the sides. I'll post pictures of the finished project in a week or two . . . depending on how long it takes. I thought I had it today . . . found out I left out one of the really important pieces . . . this box I stamped. Thanks. . . . may God bless, Dwight Quote If you can breathe, . . . thank God. If you can read, . . . thank a teacher. If you are reading this in English, . . . thank a veteran. www.dwightsgunleather.com
Members YinTx Posted October 9, 2021 Members Report Posted October 9, 2021 The lines are pretty good. The entire pattern needs to be rotated ever so slightly counter clockwise. That is freakin nitpicky, by the way, and only on occasion do I nail it right. Some of the stamps are getting deeper impressions than others - could be the leather, could be casing, could be the force of the hammer being slightly different. Also, freakin nitpicky. Camo stamps along the bottom are a bit out of whack, considering how nicely the basket is done. Some are slightly twisted, some high some low, some overlapping some gapped to far apart. That's a pretty brutal assessment of a nicely done bit of stamping that the general public wouldn't see a thing wrong in it. For a second piece of basket weave, you should feel pretty good about it. I did dozens before I felt I would let anyone look at one. YinTx Quote YinTx https://www.instagram.com/lanasia_2017/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK6HvLWuZTzjt3MbR0Yhcj_WIQIvchezo
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