Improve your leather tooling in less than 30 minutes
Learn tips, tricks, & techniques to achieve smooth beautiful tooling.
The foundation of tooling starts with your swivel knife, beveling, and shading.
This video will simplify these tools and get you well on your way to improving your tooling.
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OLD Leather Smith here, great video 4 beginners, nice explanations but you forgot 1 thing, telling your audience 2 put a few drops of liquid dish soap in the water 4 smother movement of your tools, even in inexpensive, snd thinner leather. GOD'S BLESSINGS ✝️⚾🙃
Mr. Joe! Thank you very much for your work in creating, editing & posting this wonderful video. I appreciate it greatly.
I’m new to the craft and my biggest thing with tilting my punch’s and bevels is looking at where I was rather then where I’m going I try to tip it and see how it hit ranther then take a second and look to see if I like the way it came out
It seems I have been trying to learn tooling on leather that is too thin. I think I finally figured out why your cuts look so different from mine. The leather you are using is like twice the thickness of what I have been struggling with. Also, the finger being right down on the surface, controlling the swivel better. Thank you, sir!!
If forced to tool thinner leather for whatever reason, get a roll of that white, closed cell high density foam. I think they call it EVA Foam, Craft foam, or Cosplay foam. It lets the leather stretch further, beyond the level of the surface it's sitting in, giving you deeper impressions with your stamping tools.
Excellent content as always!
Outstanding 👏 I want to learn how to shade initials... It was hard to see the results of the beveling, because the leather was flat... You picked it up on some occasion... Nevertheless, you did an outstanding job of explaining everything... Wonderful job 👏👏 Thank you 🙏
Fantastic video, especially for us newbies. Thank you !
Great presentation! Probably the best I've seen. Thanks Joe!
Thank you, this is really helpful.
Great video!
Excellent training, After my 45 year break from tooling Iam starting all over again, You are definitly helping me get it better this time Thank you
Outstanding explanations and filming
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and techniques! I've watched this video several times and I'm still finding things to improve my skills. Thank you again!
I watched several of your videos, they're all great and very thorough - thank you for sharing your knowledge!
great instruction, these are the basis of leather work, so important !!!!!!
Hey Joe, you got some good tips in there. Nice video!
Thank you so much for making this video. I really appreciate it!!
Love your vids and ty for being such a Gud teacher. 😊
Another awesome video full of great tips. And incredibly well explained. Thank you Joe. As an aside, is there any idea of an approx timeline as to when your beginner deluxe stamping tool kit might be available for purchase again?
Always a great video to learn and enjoy, thanks! Could you do a video of which swivel blades you prefer, and which ones you would suggest for various projects?
Great work, great instructional video, Joe... One day I hope my choppy bevels, look as consistent as yours...lol
Eres el mejor 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Gracias 👍
I’ve learned a lot from your lessons... thanks... after you remove the tape from the back of the leather.. what do you do to finish it?
Hello! Thank you so much for the channel and the techniques and way of working you show on it. If possible I would like to ask you to make a video of engraving a diamond on a belt, Because today I tried to do it but nothing rece. Thank you in advance, My you be alive and well and I wish you a lot of health, luck and success.
This is a great very educational video! Thanks! Also I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but you sound exactly like woody harrelson!!
Would you be so kind as to do a video on FL type stuff...such as Palm Trees, palmettos, fish etc....? Thanks PS - also I've noticed that when I get some of these tools (Most of em) they're really small - much smaller than I expected. Great video - helped a lot. Thanks
Would a flat not checkered bevel look better or are the checkered patterns there for a reason
Hi Joe Meling, I watch your videos a lot, I've learned a lot, one question, do you ship to Mexico, I would like to get the sock package?
Just as an observation. Where you showed the choppiness of the bevel on the longer curves. It seems like that would be a technique to enhance the look of certain pieces. Possibly the beginning of a leaf vein. And a Question. Are there designs where you would choose not to bevel? The petals you did without beveling seem to have gained definition from the shader.
Where can I get the deluxe beginner's kit??
When doing leather tooling can I do sections at a time? I’m fairly new to it but was unsure about it. I also noticed in your videos that you wet the whole leather and not just the section your working on. Reason why for that?
Haven’t stared the craft yet waiting for my tools been watching a lot of videos. No one explains what side of the line to bevel. How do you know what side of the line to bevel?
what swivel knife do you use
my acrylic paint domt stick to my projects when i antiuqe it, what leather is best for tooling?
Can u tell me where I can get those 3 tools that I just figured out that I now need. Lol
to case leather you need to wet both sides of the leather. If you tape one side, you're not casing.
In all the videos showing almost everything to do with leather craft, Herman Oak is used exclusively. In most cases where someone is just getting into the craft folks are reluctant to spend the kind of money required to get HO, so wind up using 2nd grade leather, and are disappointed with their results. One of you brave you tubers that makes a ton of money or gets freebies from sponsors, should do a series on how to use lesser quality leathers and get reasonable results. That would be MOST informative. Consider it...thanks.
OLd Leather Smith here,. I have a suggestion 4 you, in the water you soak or spray on your leather put a few drops of liquid dish soap, it helps your tools move through the leather smoother. It cuts the tension of your leather no matter how cheap it is as long as it's veg tanned. So you R aware you can carve any leather, but I would have 2 teach you how. GOD'S BLESSINGS ✝️⚾🙃
Who hurt you Paul?
Look up Bruce Cheaney, he is an old saddle maker and uses a lot of import leather (maybe not on his saddles, i don’t know for sure) for his crafts and does really nice work.
@@james2592OldLeatherSmith The soap.. doesn't leave any residue?
@@yohon5117Good question!
My memory is effected by my disability. With that said, I may write multiple and separate comments. 1st) You haven't said it yet, but as a beginner I have noticed that the tilt of the beveler, you have made a resemblance of a cattail weed and if you turn the beveler around and do the same thing, you've created a silhouette of a cattail... lol. I know that wasn't the point just saying. 2) you haven't mentioned it yet at least about stopping the swivel knife and not completing the lines but stopping before the joining of the lines. That shows me that you have done this for a while. I have heard it from other vid posters. Just an observation.
Your writing was fine, and solid points made.
I thought CASING took much longer this is just wetting the leather
You have a knack for teaching. I hope you have kids
I did not know you could rotate your workpiece as well as the tool.
Heck ya, no rules😀