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"Chief" Arm Guard (Finished)
GregB:
Beautiful work! I've been doing some leather carving myself mostly on knife sheaths. Kinda of difficult for detail work because I don't have a lot of room to work with on such a small piece of leather as a sheath. I especially like the results of your dying combinations.
Pappy:
Just beautiful,I like that a lot. :)
Pappy
Cameroo:
Thank you Greg. I saw a sheath that you made with the squirrel. Looks really good!
I found with the stain, if I dilute it with water it makes it easier to control the darkness of it. It works well for areas that you want to be highlights. Then in the shadow areas you can either go over the same area several time with the diluted stain and build up, or just use the straight stain undiluted.
Thanks Pappy!
Lee Slikkers:
Hey Cameroo, that is turning out awesome...the dye work really provides some depth and makes the work "pop." Love it...when you did your initial layout what/how did you do the stencil work or put the pattern down on the cased leather?
Anyway, stunning work as usual...
Cameroo:
Hey Lee, thanks! I don't have a picture of the "picture" that I used for the pattern (I'm at work >:D ). But usually what I'll do is just draw something out (or in this case I cheated and found a picture of "Chief" on google. I am kinda artsy but not that great at drawing). There are different ways to make the pattern. For example, in the arm guard I made with the 2 deer, I used trace paper, put the outline of the arm guard on it, and then just filled the space by tracing different examples of leather carving from a book I bought. In the case of Chief, I just printed it off on normal paper.
Then it's just a matter of casing the leather (wet it down with a sponge and let it sit a few minutes till the color goes back to normal, then the water has been absorbed and it's ready to tool), laying your patter on top (I tape it down so it doesn't slip), and then go over your lines with a scribe to transfer the design on to the leather. With good veg-tanned leather, you don't have to press very hard at all.
Hope that answers your question. Better get back to work ;)
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