Basket weave tool needed

[tsunkasapa]

Your basketweave is fine. As Yin Tx pointed out, your border is a bit off. I usually cut and bevel the outline, it gives you a 'ledge' to place the heel of the tool against. As for the spacing of the impressions, I stamp out 8-10 on scrap to get an idea of how many impressions in a set distance. then you can space them as needed. It just takes practice. Or you can start at the center point and work to the ends. Then if you have a bit of space, you can put something else in the corner, like a large seeder.

Edited October 9, 2021 by tsunkasapa

[chuck123wapati]

that is good work friend! The basket weave is right on, the border needs some work as posted above it should also cover/camo  the ends of the weave

[Dwight]

12 hours ago, YinTx said:

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.  YinTx

 

Thanks to every one who replied . . . and I was wondering about rotating the pattern.  I tried to look and figure out what angle most folks did their stamping at . . . kinda thought it was close to 45 degrees . . . so I grabbed my carpenter's square . . . laid it on the leather . . . and drug my stamping tool down along the edge to get two parallel lines at a 45 degree angle.  

Do most of you stamp at a different angle?

As for the deeper / shallower impressions . . . 76 year old hands . . . doing something they never trained for earlier.  Now if I could do the impressions with a lever action .22 or a semi auto military rifle . . . or a Remington typewriter . . . they would be spot on. 

AND . . . I had to get up and drag my $1.25 per pair . . . dollar store . . . seeing eye cheaters so I could see where that stamp was going to land.  Man I hate wearing those things.  I'll look up for my coffee . . . or to check on a sound . . . and my whole world goes to the "big blur" thru those dollar store cheaters.

But again . . . thanks to you all for your advice and encouragement . . . the project is taking shape rather well . . . I didn't charge the guy  enough for it . . . but I'm not planning on making a career out of these things anyway.  But I do enjoy the challenge of a "one of a kind" leather project.  Done many of them . . . hope to do more.

May God bless,

Dwight

[fredk]

Bearing in mind that I've never done a basketweave panel, with or without a border;

When I'm having to stamp a repeat in a straight line; I lightly scribe a line using a ball end tool, then I clamp an iron bar along that line. Then when I'm stamping I just have to worry about the spacing along the line. I have several pieces of steel bar of various lengths and widths but all 3mm thick for this sort of work. If the iron bar is going to be on damp/wet leather I back it with duct/duck/gaffer tape.

[YinTx]

10 hours ago, Dwight said:

Do most of you stamp at a different angle?

 

Most of my stamps land at different angles.  To figure it out, I stamp a sample piece, cut along the line and along the diagonal like in the photo.  This gives me the angle for that specific stamp.  I just use the sample piece to lay out the first line of my first row of stamps, and then run with it.  More than one way to skin this cat, but it's how I do it.

YinTx

[bland]

Dwight the angle depends on the dimensions of the stamp.  You can see in the first photo there is maybe a 5 degree difference between these two stamps. 

You can run them a couple different ways.  One being along a straight line, legs resting on the line.  The other is more of a vertical run along the edge of the panel. Think more like arrowheads on a belt.    Figure out your angle and use it all the way up the first side then run the second all the way up as well, then the third...  As far as the camouflage tool you can run it with the legs on the line or you can run the arc on the line and get a little different look.    

Edited October 10, 2021 by bland
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[Dwight]

Hmmm . . . never gave it a thought.

Just set my square on the leather . . .  went down the 45 side . . .  started knocking out the stamps.

Good to know tht there is a better way.

NOW . . . other than the little half circle star like stamp I used . . . is there any other "border" tool that is normally used???

Sounds picky . . . but I hate doing the same old thing . . .  every time . . . like a bit of spice or difference.  

I've got a deer hoof print tool and a butterfly print tool . . . both of which I hand made . . . will never be used again . . . but was fun using them the first time.  Both made belts that went out as "One of............" belts.  One of em went to my sister I lost this year.

May God bless,

Dwight

[YinTx]

44 minutes ago, Dwight said:

is there any other "border" tool that is normally used???

Sounds picky . . . but I hate doing the same old thing . . .  every time . . . like a bit of spice or difference.

Now you're talkin my language.  I don't like most of the border stamps out there, and always looking for something different.  Just seems there is nothin different.  Problem is I haven't hit a creative side of me yet to design one.  And I don't have the tools and skills to make one, I don't think.  And when I see something I think I might like, seller wants a clean hunner dolla bill for it.  And it seems I'm too tight with my $, and keep making the eagle scream when I stretch the one I got.

My sincere condolences on your loss, as well.

 

YinTx

[bland]

There are all manner of border stamps.  Every vendor has a wide variety.  Here are just few examples.  

https://www.barrykingtools.com/borders.htm

https://tandyleather.com/search?type=article%2Cpage%2Cproduct&q=border*+stamps*

https://www.weaverleathersupply.com/catalog/cp_/shop-now/hand-tools/stamping-carving/stamps

Edited October 10, 2021 by bland

[tsunkasapa]

On 10/9/2021 at 7:18 AM, Dwight said:

Thanks to every one who replied . . . and I was wondering about rotating the pattern.  I tried to look and figure out what angle most folks did their stamping at . . . kinda thought it was close to 45 degrees . . . so I grabbed my carpenter's square . . . laid it on the leather . . . and drug my stamping tool down along the edge to get two parallel lines at a 45 degree angle.  

Do most of you stamp at a different angle?

Here is a link to an older Doodle page that has different angles for different tools. It does make a difference.

Basketweave by Bill McKay- Series 10D Page 1 — Tandy Leather, Inc.