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Arm guard leather carving (Finally finished!!)
Wolf Watcher:
An old Indian told me that you can dye some of the patterns in your design a certain color and then paint them with Natala. When the Natala dries then you can use a rub on antique paste over the whole pattern. Use Carnauba Cream from Tandy to clean up the excess. The paste will accent the edges of your patterns. You can use Natala on any pattern before dying and it will maintain the original leather color. Natala will not prevent a pattern from losing its color if a regular dye is used over it! Its my opinion that learning to carve patterns in leather is not as has been said "rocket science", but it takes some artistic talent to produce beautiful leather carvings! One last thing that may be of interest--The quality of the leather you are carving has a great deal to do with the good results. Good grade hides cost much more, but when you are going to spend hours working on it with swivel knives and leather tools and having good dye results it is well worth the extra money! An Old Indian--Joe
Wolf Watcher:
For some reason the words Neat-Lac were changed in the post that I just made. Some times I would like to smash this darn Confuser and go back to Smoke signals. Red Faced Joe
Cameroo:
Thanks Joe. I have used that technique on the first arm guards I made ( http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,23397.msg315337.html#msg315337 ), although I used Super Sheen instead of Neat-Lac (never heard of that). It seemed to work pretty good. I just picked up some of that Carnauba Cream the other day, I haven't used it yet but will do a little test piece and if I like it, that's probably what I'll use for a finish. The super sheen is a little too glossy.
Gonna try to get some more done on this tonight!
Cameroo:
I spent a couple hours on this tonight and this is all I've got to show for it :) It took a while before starting to mix up dyes and do some practicing. Of course I had to jump right in and tackle the deer. When I was at Tandy the other day, I showed this to the owner and he told me, "If you spend 2 hours carving something, you should spend 3 hours finishing it". I hope that doesn't mean it's going to take me 18 hours to finish! I thought he was a bit out to lunch, but now I can see why. It doesn't help when I'm running to the computer every 5 minutes to see if I have my name for the bow swap :) I think I'm done for tonight.
Keenan:
Cam your work is incredible to say the least. That is going to be a jaw dropper for sure. Then again so is the one that i already got from you ;D Still going to have to get some pics of it up for every one to see. ;)
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