Completely Hypothetical....

[A Hay]

Here's a small project I worked on this weekend. Dirka, this is for you.



It's based on the Celtic Knot in Dirka Skene's Avatar.
It was a nice little practice piece. Size is about 5 inches by 8 inches. Only tools needed were a swivel knife, a beveler and mallet, a modeler spoon and a edger. I put Resolene finish on the light parts of the knot and then used Tandy Dark Brown Antique Stain for the finish.

Next time I'll pay more attention to getting the width of the lines on the pattern more uniform before tracing it onto the damp leather, but this was just practice to see how it looks.

If Dirka has the talent to draw the knots, she should be able to do the leather work also. Other aspiring leather workers, let's see your work too!

This was my last decent size piece of leather. Need to get to the store next week while I'm on vacation. Then I want to make a really good Scottish Lion Brown Sporran for myself. Then a Welsh Dragon for my new St. David's cilt.

Cheers,
Tom

[Splash_4]

Oh My! that is a pretty piece and deserves to be featured in some sort of product.

[Dirka Skene]

That's awesome! How long did it take you to do it?

[A Hay]

That's awesome! How long did it take you to do it?

I did this in about 2 hours, but hurried a bit.
To do this carefully would be about 3 hours. It would take about 14 hours all together to make a sporran with this knot on the front.

Dirka, if you would like to have the sample (to guide you in your own efforts), send me a PM with a mailing address. No charge. I'll be traveling until after 9 July.

Tom Hays

[cacunn]

Sorry Coast Guard is not available.

Now you tell me. I stopped in at the Tandy store in Harrisburg, PA (took to trips to find it) and on the counter they had a number of stamps at 1/2 off. As I looked through the pile for the Army stamp all I could find were Coast Guard stamps.

Maybe next time.