Thread: Playing with leather

Originally Posted by Ooops

So much awesomeness, I don’t know where to start!

@ Ftx325 & hunter Al.7mm08
What an awesome thread, being in a different time zone I wake up every morning looking forward to reading the latest revelations.
I asked for some pointers and I’m getting a master class.
You’ve all really inspired me to have a go at this, I can’t thank you enough, absolutely awesome information and display of talent
Keep posting guys, I’m living vicariously through you

@Ftx325
The modularity of your sheath carry options is very clever. Hunter is spot on with his comment about the base model ute and the options to customise.

@ hunter Al.7mm08
people’s ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. You must get a real buzz out of using tools that your grandfather thought up, made & used. I bet he’s smiling down on you.

@Gapped axe
I’m sorry to hear about your health issues. I’ve been going through a few hard times my self but this puts things in perspective and makes me appreciate what I have. You humble me sir. I too wish you the very best of luck in your battle

Your work is fantastic but I’m particularly drawn to the bracelet in your special projects section, very special, simple & elegant.

Hi @Ooops thanks for the feedback. Just pleased to know that you are finding this helpful.
As I have said before there's so much talent around hidden in bsck sheds , @Gapped axe being a damn sight better example than me!
I may have a wee project brewing for/with gapped axe so I may be able to do a photo walk thru of how I do my sheaths....if gapped axe doesn't mind seeing my dodgy techniques that is ...lol
The following photo is of a few of the pewter sculptures I used to create for a jeweler locally which I have seen for sale in tourist shops all over the country on the odd occasion. I would carve them out of wax and he would cast them into pewter. The tuatara for example took nearly 12hrs to carve and it's only about 3 inches long. I ended up giving that up as he wouldn't pay me sod all for the original and nothing at all im royalties for each unit sold. I must have done nearly 20odd designs for him including a map of NZ in the top of a teaspoon handle...including carving out all the mountain ranges and lakes.
Then I did pet portraits for a while. People would give me photos of dogs etc and I would draw them... but being a glutton for punishment I would draw them in dots using a Biro then lightly colour them with coloured pencils...the dot technique was the only way to get the detail I wanted , but lord it took forever... The hawk photo is one I did for myself nearly 20yrs ago so the colour has turned a bit orangy but if you look closely you can see the individual dots...

I have some other copies of my drawings kicking around if anyone's interested...but enough of that for now...this is supposed to be a "playing with leather"thread....