Craft Works - Let's Get Creative!

[GimpKid]

Nice thread. I'm not that gifted, but I'm sure others around here are.

I actually had a question about your work. Do you use some sort of pattern or just go off instinct?

[jimmy]

i would like to know how you finish your edge?

[ChuckDenim]

[Jii]

@jimmy:

i would like to know how you finish your edge?

I have to admit hat's one of the things I need to work on. When working with vegetable tanned leather I usually burnish the edges by hand with a bit of moisture and a piece of leather or wood and then I finish them by a small amount of EdgeKote. When using chrome tanned leather I use only Edgekote.

And GK: I just go off by instinct, I usually make a rough sketch of what I want the final thing to look like and just carve away

ChuckDenim, that's a good looking rein you have there. I've tried a bit of braiding as well but haven't been too happy with the results.

[injunjack]

rein available on request…

[Giles]

My pathetic attempt really does not deserve being in the same company as the stuff above, but at least my Mac has a proper place to live now

[Jii]

Cool!

[MastersOfDeath]

^^my Mac needs some-a-that!

[Lucifer]

I try to make some leather stuff myself, but not even close to the level of Jii!

You can barely see my newest creation, a kindle-pouch, here: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6199/6137706128_76abbc763c_b.jpg

So, Jii, do you sell watch straps?

[madmonday]

you know i have been meaning to ask jii that question for sometime now.

i just always forget to 

[van Olzon]

Finished today some new hardware for the incoming 25oz tomorrow … 

It's a 1,5" belt with 4,5mm blank cowhide leather and a brass buckle (thx to Finn/Rafa for the hint)

[injunjack]

well well well… I have same buckles coming in, 2 black and 1 natural blanks waiting

[Finn666]

great job there vO…if i can get some new scratch i might go and do another belt or similar

[Lucifer]

Looks great! Just made one similar myself, just with a two-pronged black buckle and black thread.

Waiting for two new blanks now (natural and black).

[Guest]

OK so I just figured out how to post pics!

I work with colored pencil and paper.  It all started in 2005 when I decided to keep my journal on one sheet of paper, a nice sheet of course, 100+g/m (basic "drawing" paper) or more at least.  Back then I had to write in different colors so that I could see the top layer I was writing.  After time its become more about accumulation and texture than about identifying individual words.  When I write nowadays, I envision myself raking rocks in a Zen garden.

With the exception of the third pic, which is an intaglio monoprint with colored pencil on top, everything that you see was created with only drawn lines and hand written words.  After a while the paper starts to shred, and then things get interesting…

Pigments of My Imagination:

Head ON:

What Are You Hiding?:

Personal Space:

Pressure Point:

[MastersOfDeath]

Amazing…. Especially like the first one.

[Giles]

WOW…...

[Jii]

Way cool!

[rocket]

beautiful work… really like that

[ChuckDenim]

Some years ago I was addicted to origami.