Today I started on a western saddle. I wanted to try out my new tooling set, but I mostly just used one piece. Even in 1:9 scale, tooling takes a long time.
Getting there….
Done!
Then I dyed the pieces and construction starts hopefully tomorrow.
The night ended with this. Another snow storm.
During this weekend, Joann’s Fabrics was offering a 20% total purchase along with a 40% any regular priced item. Which meant that all local craft stores had the almighty 20% off the total purchase. With the wonderful coupons, I came home with these. A jewelry mallet, wire, a leather tooling set and sharp thing-ers (I think they are similar to awls).
The leather tooling set really made me excited. With some scraps I played around with the different tooling pieces. I see a western saddle in the future!
The longer that I am a part of the hobby, the more I keep learning that if you want to produce nice things, you must have the right equipment to do so.
Up until today, whenever I would make holes for a piece of tack, I would use a push pin.
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The pros of using them was that I could find them virtually anywhere in my house. The con was that I wasn’t punching a hole. Instead I was just tearing a hole into the leather so the hole never stayed in place. Once I moved the leather *bam* it was like the hole was never there.
After school today I went to Office Max and bought a pair of technical/drafting pencils. Jennifer Buxton of Braymere Custom Saddlery had an awesome tutorial of how she made holes.
Following it, I took apart the pencils and am now ready to punch holes! I can’t wait to make something. Mostly so that I can use a hammer. :)
This is what I made.
It is not spectacular but I did make semi-working buckle tongues and made it out of ribbon. School is back in session after a lovely week of two hour delays and snow days.
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