Leatherwork Part IV

I noticed today staring really close at this picture of Caspian that his the edge on the armour appears to be a stitched and rolled over piece of thin leather all along the edges... Since I have never done that kind of work, and frankly think what I am doing will be close enough for now, I doubt I will do that addition. Instead I am going to simulate the affect by just beveling the edges a little.

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Here is a picture of one of my vambraces with a ball peen hammer and a bevel tool. You can see that in order to make the bevel I first make my lines using the swivel knife and then use the bevel tool to indent down the leather along the line giving the bevel a raised appearance.



I was able to reach my goal for today and completed the tooling of one side of the leather armour. Some pieces are darker than others due to them still being wet. Once dried (tomorrow), I will dye them using the dark brown stain I purchased last week.

If you click the image here, and zoom in, you can see that I have a few flaws... Firstly, my lines with the hatches in them are not a uniform size... they do not line up properly, and I put them on the wrong side on the main piece but correctly on the upper and lower... :-) Now I have to decide if I make my other side match this one, or do it correctly. Decisions, decisions... I can tell all ready my next shoulder will be a big improvement over this one... Oh well.