Craft Works - Let's Get Creative!
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Long time no post
Just got back from Japan on sunday (spent 2 weeks in Kyoto) and after seeing all those beautiful japanese leather wallets in shops inspired me to finally get my shit together and make that new wallet I've been thinking about for quite some time now. A few years since I last made anything but yup, I've still got it. Not perfect by any means but good enough. Actually this was the first time I've done anything without straight lines so couldn't use a ruler for cutting and had to punch each hole separately with free hand spacing so stitching isn't perfect but I'm very happy with the end result. Made a belt as warm-up too but no pics of that since it was a straight forward boring 20 minute job.
Veteran and replacement.
I wanted something thinner and with cleaner/simpler lines than the old one with capacity for loads of cards (each slot takes three cards) and bill/receipt/etc pockets. No need for a coin pocket and the zipper of it in the old wallet wreaked havoc on my cards. Had to fit in the back pocket too so no long wallets even though that would have been better regarding card placement (horizontally vs vertically) and access to bill pockets. Can't have everything I guess
Bought the leathers from Tokyu Hands on a last minute shopping spree and I'm happy I did. Took me about six hours to make (of which most was during a "can't-sleep-jetlag-night"). -
Damn that looks awesome!
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So glad to see you back @Jii, look at that evo on the old faithful! It appears like we have now come full circle, since you were the one who started this thread
To keep the wheel of dharma turning, The Purps has been freshly sealed and varnished and is DONE!
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Carnage! Might not look like much, but a tremendous amount goes into it, and out of it as it were.
And the pencils start out like this and then get worn down to that
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Great question, @Finn666, I'm happy to provide more detail, thanks for asking! The short answer is that I'm spending way way way too much money on my materials, papers, pencils, pastels, blenders, sharpeners (I will never tell what sharpener I use because they are discontinued and I have been hoarding them for years ;D) and varnishes. It's all money out of pocket, but I do it for the love of the handmade and unique. I just want to make things I think are useful. So I work clever odd jobs to keep me alive barely. Starving artists are real! Per month, it's probably half my rent, ~500, if I went full on artist-mode doing it all day everyday, it would easily be around $1000+/month.
Primarily, I use two types of colored pencils. There are exceptions, but the two I use are the Faber-Castell Polychromos, and the Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901. These two are by far the highest quality lightfast color available. The Polychromos are my workhorses at $1.75-2.50/pencil depending on if I buy In bulk or locally, and the 6901's are my finishers at $3.80-4.50/pencil. The amount of pencils I have been going through lately is staggering, but that's a good thing!!
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Here's a pic of just the pencils I've completely worn down over the last two months. These are all now too small to fit into my manual sharpener. The colorful ones are the Faber-Castell, and the ones with the cedar wood are the Caran d'Ache. I included a full size pencil for reference.
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Marvelous idea, G! This will definitely happen :-*, don't know when though 8). I think it can improve….I got some ideas...maybe call it "The Special G Pencil Version"
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That's a work of art right there. Adam, you mount them on a decent piece of card in a "random" arrangement, and I'll buy it there and then…...
This
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@adam313 really nice work.
"When there is no pebble tossed"
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"Let there be songs to fill the air!"
Thank you all so much for the kind words!
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One of my all time favorites. I get my fix now through the Professor and his Deadpod.
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This is on the same paper as The Purps (^^above), but it's five years older! Cotton paper ages like cotton jeans
This one is still going strong, but just about to retire
Earlier in its evolution:
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The last step in the process!! Ultra-high definition imaging:
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The Blue is officially retired! An IHForum exclusive one-off peace. Here's the raw, un-cropped, minimized .jpg version (the original .tif is 600MB
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Looks really great!
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new cardholder
