Back Braid

 Back Braid

When putting a handle on a four stranded leash or key chain, you can use this method to form the handle.

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About Leatherwork

I hope it will inspire you.

Come learn about new things with me.

-- JOHAN

Rope

I cannot remember where I saw this first.  It was long ago, but it has become one of my signature decorations on projects.

This is how I achieve a very effective border: 

 Mark two parallel lines with a compass.   

Cut them with a swivel knife.  

Now use a lined sharp-tip beveler [F910] along one of the lines to make one row of indents and then turn the leather around to make the row of indents along the other cut line.  

The smooth and checkered bevelers, with the same shape, does not have the same good effect, but try them by all means, you might like their effect more.

My friend Dawson recently came up with this clever variation:

• In the bottom row, A is first beveled on the inside of two cut lines - sections B and C is not beveled at all.
• In the top row, the inside of the cut lines were first beveled for all the sections.
• Sections A and B were done with the basic V407 veiner; C and D with a larger one and E with a smaller veiner.

Another friend, Jeanne, came up with a very striking variation:   simply a different spacing:

Jeanne did this:

I hope this can inspire you!

[First published Oct 31 2007

Updated March 2024]

Antique Paste

 Using Fiebing's antique paste and ProResist

These examples and videos were made with the antique paste and ProResist made by Fiebings.

In my experience these two products should always be paired - they do not work well with other resists or antique stains.

Here are two videos that show the process:

3D CONSTRUCTION

 This blog post will be completed as more videos are created.   So this is really still a draft version.

I am also still testing the best way to get my TikTok videos here on my blog....

Stamping Suggestions

STAMPING SUGGESTIONS 

Our local leather guild recently came up with some stamping suggestions.  Here are the results - I hope it inspires you!

Not all stamping, but a friend came up with some swivel knife suggestions as well:

The following two pics show examples done only with the stamps that are identified by their numbers (it is one piece of leather, so there is overlap.)

Another blog post about this can be seen at

Basic Stamping Tools

Basic Stamping Tools

To start with tooling on your project,  you need very few tools. 

I picked here the basic tools in most starter sets,  and added two that I think are really nice to have : F910 and a basketweave.

Just sitting down with those eight tools, I came up with these examples of what you can do with them (this excludes carving that first requires swivel knife cuts).

These are then what most people refer to as geometric stamping.