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Lord-Entpooh — Tree of Life bracer 2

Published: 2013-01-24 21:34:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 1438; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 0
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Description here's a shot of the set do to the fact that they are round. I needed to prop them up with something. I think these came out really, really nice
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Comments: 14

CopperDancer [2013-02-04 03:36:24 +0000 UTC]

Yes, they did! Hand tooled, too -- VERY impressive!

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Lord-Entpooh In reply to CopperDancer [2013-02-04 15:50:48 +0000 UTC]

Yep thanks

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LeeleetheBunny [2013-02-01 19:16:20 +0000 UTC]

These are beautiful! Do you hand tool or do you have some sort of repeating stamp?

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Lord-Entpooh In reply to LeeleetheBunny [2013-02-02 18:39:49 +0000 UTC]

these are just swivel knifed. But yes I do all my own tooling everything I do is by hand. I think stamps are fine for some things but I think good tooling is much more sharp and distinct. I would've liked ask you go a little more detail on this one but the gentleman who commissioned me only wanted swivel knifing

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LeeleetheBunny In reply to Lord-Entpooh [2013-02-03 01:48:00 +0000 UTC]

Ah ok. And I have to completely agree, good hand tooling is amazing and stamps simply cannot compare. I can understand their use but the look of hand tooling is just stunning. Thank you for the info!

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Lord-Entpooh In reply to LeeleetheBunny [2013-02-05 16:58:19 +0000 UTC]

you're very welcome always willing to answer questions or comments

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ErlinOdGORa [2013-01-26 22:27:02 +0000 UTC]

not bad not bad Is it hard baked leather, or just like that flexible??

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Lord-Entpooh In reply to ErlinOdGORa [2013-01-28 23:17:47 +0000 UTC]

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. But it is 14 to 15 ounce leather it was only swivel knife and I do leather treatment on it. So there remains hard yet flexible

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ErlinOdGORa In reply to Lord-Entpooh [2013-01-29 03:38:46 +0000 UTC]

Try this:
instead of swivel knife, moisten leather, let it stay a bit than use sharp knife and cut pattern in leather, not to deep, than place leather around wooden stomp or other mold and put it in oven 150 degree for some 20 or so min...
Pattern cuts will open up and leather will become stiff and hard...
Use some small project as bracelet to experiment, you might like results

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Lord-Entpooh In reply to ErlinOdGORa [2013-01-29 17:42:27 +0000 UTC]

thanks so much for the suggestion. I find that my wedding the leather and swivel knifing then when it dries it causes the lines to open up just fine plus a fine baking causes the leather to become less spongelike and brittle. And because I build my stuff for The purpose of combat use brittleness is bad and you don't want to take out the elasticity of leather because that's one of the things that makes it protective because it acts like a super dense sponge absorbing the energy and distributing it across itself. This is why leather works so well as armor
please don't take this as me dissing on your idea not my intention I think each craftsman just has different ways of doing things the way they like. I really do appreciate the suggestion.

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ErlinOdGORa In reply to Lord-Entpooh [2013-01-31 13:20:52 +0000 UTC]

Every critic is a good critic my friend
That technique is not mine,I heard of it from friend armorer hire in Belgrade, and I seened it, it looks good but I really dont know how it works for protection...

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Lord-Entpooh In reply to ErlinOdGORa [2013-02-02 18:40:35 +0000 UTC]

you're absolutely correct I always want to hear criticism towards my work so I know where I need to improve sometimes a creator or the artisan is blind to his own mistakes

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darrgo71 [2013-01-25 03:39:26 +0000 UTC]

Nice Work! no beveling? Still cool. what green do you use?

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Lord-Entpooh In reply to darrgo71 [2013-01-25 07:50:58 +0000 UTC]

no beveling it's not what the client paid for they were going for a different look. I went with forest green and thank you. I think it turned out quite nice

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