Tape gets so expensive when backing your leather, plus it can be a pain to remove after tooling. Switch to "shelf liner" found in kitchen department at dollar tree. Comes in larger rolls, peels off beautifully after tooling. Give it a try and it will change your leathercraft!!! Been working with leather for 16 years and this is one of the greatest tips I've learned.
@@bugelux Leather has "plasticity" and when it is wet it can be "molded" or stretched to different degrees. So when a craftsmans tools on wet leather, usually there is a specific size the piece has been cut too. To prevent stretching beyond this set size, the back, flesh side, or nappy side of the leather is bound with some sort of material. There are many ways to accomplish this and most of it is personal preference. You can rubber cement the back of your piece to cardboard and tool it. You can tape the back with painters tape or some use packaging tape. And you can also use shelf liner. If you are considering getting into the craft. Look into the Leather Crafters and Saddlers Journal. It is a great source of information for crafters of every experience level.
Thank you for making the video. I had an opportunity to have started about 50 years ago and today I would be teaching you but life changes and my craft changed to making garments instead. So now you are teaching me the leather tooling art.
Ok. Im convinced now. Ive been making with leather for a couple of years but carving never really appealed to me. Its not a big thing here in Australia. For some reason in the last month or so all ive been drawn to is carving vids on yt and insta. I think it started when people started wanting celtic and viking designs on a belt? Ive got a couple of basic stamps like that but Ive never even done basket stamps even. But these stamps looked pretty cool and sparked a deeper interest in this other side of leather craft. A new challenge to take on with leather. I just ordered some basic basket stamps and saw a beginner carving kit where i buy my supplies. I think ill order that kit too and see how i go. Thanks for tipping the scales for me 🤙
That’s awesome! I’m glad to have helped out some. Tooling definitely takes quite a bit of time to start figuring out, but it can get addicting (or annoying) very quick! It seems like people either love the process or hate it. Feel free to reach out with any questions anytime!
I’m sorry but I don’t know what you are referring to. I don’t sell anything on Etsy. At this point in time the only patterns I offer are a set of 3 belt patterns on my website.
Just watching and learning. Thank you for your videos. So does the swivel knife part the leather as it cuts to form a channel? It doesn't appear to remove material. Thanks again.
Sorry, but no, I drew the pattern by hand directly onto the leather before making the video. I might do a build along video in the future and make the pattern available for that project
