Basket weave tool needed

[Dwight]

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

[bland]

I have been happy with the Barry King basket stamps.  There are quite a few different designs, styles and sizes.  

[fredk]

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

[PastorBob]

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.

[YinTx]

+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

[Cattledude]

+ 1 for Barry King, I use them on my saddles. Very nice imprint and easier to run than the cheap stamps.

[Scootch]

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

[Dwight]

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

[Dwight]

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

[YinTx]

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