Relief Carved Phoenix Wind Chimes
Based on period carving techniques Project Completed August 1, 2002 Although wind and chimes have been heavily documented through the orient through the ages, the modern look and feel of…
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Relief Carved Cricket Box
Based on the Tong through Song Dynasties culture, 618-1278 AD. Project Completed May 21, 2002 (images of completed project not found) Crickets were kept both as fighting pets and a…
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Hand carved drunken sailor doll, based on Late 1500’s German Toy Doll Techniques Project Completed October 22, 2001 Motivation and Inspiration, A Foreword I often reminisce about my childhood. Many…
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Engraved and Stained Board with Smoothed Wooden Counters, based on works discovered from the mid to late 1500’s in the Germanic areas Project Completed July, 2001 (images of completed project…
Read MoreA Brief Timeline of Tooling Leather
The first use of Hand Tooled Leather is lost in history, but preserved leather items have been unearthed from 3,000-year-old Egyptian tombs and are mentioned in the Bible and ancient…
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While there are many types of leather available now, I will list ones that I tend to lean toward. This is not to say that other types are not accessible,…
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There are many tools that are available commercially that are utilized in the leather working processes. There are also naturally occurring tools that are in your own back yard or…
Read MoreStitching Up Leather
Nearly every project will require some type of stitching, if the piece is going to be functional. Hand stitching a piece takes time and patience, it is never as easy…
Read MoreTooling (beveling and embossing) leather
Tooling is a blanket term used for any time you are making a design in leather. It consists of many steps, but the most important thing to remember is that…
Read MoreAging a Finished Piece
One of the questions posed to me frequently is “how did you get it to look so old? I know that this piece is new, but it looks like it’s…
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