Beautiful work!!!
Just need the money to buy some leather.....
Beautiful work!!!
Another option to carving and stamping leather is embossing. When I was working leather professionally 40 years ago I had some embossing dies made that greatly speeded up the process. I have shown some examples with a couple of products that I still have from back in the day. A local rubber stamp company could make these for me out of a zinc casting from my pen on paper diagrams. The zinc is relatively fragile, but by epoxying the thin zinc die onto a piece of 3/8" scrap steel, they could be kept from bending which would break them and they would last indefinitely. I had my makers mark stamp made this way and still use it. I used to make a lot of military replica holsters and Civil War replica leather and the US die shown was used to emboss that onto the flap holsters. I too learned everything I know about leather just by doing it and making every mistake there is to make.Alien883 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:41 amJust playing around, never been taught by a pro....just having fun with it!!OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 11:05 pmSome nice examples of your sheaths. I could never get into floral carving, preferred basketweave or animal carving. Your floral looks great.