Stingray Cell Phone Case

This little Cell Phone Case to hang on your belt, was made by Eric R.  He used the same effect he uses with the seams on his gun cases to frame the inlay of the stingray.

Imperial Lace Rocks!

I finished this handle for a modeling tool Jason R made for me a few years ago.

I know this blog is about leather and this lace is not leather, but wow!  this lace blows your mind away - it works like a dream, it lays itself down snug, it comes in a pure white (and three other colors), it is super strong and it is any day as good as kangaroo lace to braid with.

The knot is a six bight knot with a gaucho interweave.

HiFi cover

Early in the 1980's a blind friend asked me to make a cover for her Hifi to protect it from dust.  And here is what I came up with.

The next photo shows details of the design I used.  It has a few interesting facts behind it.

It was the very early days of PC's and the bank where I worked had two Apples to do their graphic work with.  I spent my lunch times playing there and making slides for the IT Director's presentations.  This design was one of the few cliparts that were available (not on the web - this was held on a 100 Kbyte floppy).

I immediately liked the design - Amanda had told me that for her, her whole world were inside her, because she could not see the world around her that we experience as a shell around us.  And see, the design is a globe inside the outlines of a head!

Horse Brasses

Long ago in a land far away, a very British sounding lady asked me to make a strap for her horse brasses (pre Google / internet days).   I had no idea what these should look like and she did not really know either.   So I completely dreamed these up.  But she liked them...!

More detail:

Original Human Figure Project

In October 2005, in this blog, I showed the restoration of the big human figure carving I had done.  (You can see it HERE)   Now I have uncovered the photos showing how I did the project in the first place.   Unfortunately it was before free digital photography, so I only have these few photos.

First is the start of the tooling:

The project was tooled on vegtan Blue Wildebeest leather.

And this was with the figure dyed completely:

...and then mounted and framed with a thin strip of leather - at the time I did not want any framing to take away from the carving itself.

This piece traveled 8,000 miles and underwent a lot of 'abuse', which was why I had to restore it in 2005.  So this again, is what it looked like after the restoration: