EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[daxigait]

Shalom to all @kwhites634
This are my first attempts of leather tooling, would appreciate your opinion, remember I don't have the professional tools, all my tools are makeshift one that I have made from bolts. It impossible to find them here, and the one I have ordered have not arrived yet.
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I have no professional opinion on this, but they look really nice I wouldn't have that marched artistic talent if I followed a pattern and had great tools. You could earn good money tooling leather. Almost a lost art here.

 

[daxigait]

Camel? I prefer rhinos!
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[daxigait]

I have been gone because I have been spending all my time trying to build a website on my cell phone talk about driving you self crazy I'm going to start something real basic until I get on a computer and fix it up.

 

[kwhites634]

See this, I want to get close to this level

It's not that difficult once you know the techniques. Someone once asked me if I could tell whether the purse she'd purchased in Mexico, where artisans turned out leatherwork for the tourists, was actually hand-tooled or done with a machine. After examining it in detail, I told her it was, indeed, hand-tooled. When she asked how I knew, I told her I'd found a mistake, where the tool had slipped; machines don't make mistakes.

In those days it was pretty easy to tell whether a particul piece, like a lady's purse, was made in Mexico. The giveaway was the smell when the owner got caught in the rain while carrying it; it gave off a slight odor of urine, which was said to be due to the leather being tanned with uric acid. I never tried to confirm that.

 

[daxigait]

So did you end up getting a deer this year?

 

[daxigait]

@ChickenCanoe Pen is still recovering from a pretty serious molt,but I thought you might like to see him.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I have no professional opinion on this, but they look really nice I wouldn't have that marched artistic talent if I followed a pattern and had great tools. You could earn good money tooling leather. Almost a lost art here.

It is very satisfying art! I feel that it fills a neglected corner in my soul.

 

[daxigait]

It is very satisfying art! I feel that it fills a neglected corner in my soul.

When you're not working out or learning something new.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

@ChickenCanoe Pen is still recovering from a pretty serious Moulton but I thought you might like to see him.
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Awesome. Thanks. He looks nice. How do you like him?

 

[Akrnaf2]

When you're not working out or learning something new.

Exactly, I HAVE to learn constantly if not I feel That I am degenerating.