After a 50 year hiatus from a budding interest in leather craft to do a few things like go military for a couple of years back in the '60's, come back, get married, have kids, get divorced, have 2 entirely different careers spanning most of those 50 odd years, here I am now. To illustrate how much time I had on my hands when I retired in 2008, I am just now getting back into re-learning leather working. I remember so little about my early days tooling leather but one thing my dad drilled into my head, he told me, "If you want to spend time learning something, ...anything..., focus on learning and have no distractions if you want to be able to say , 'I was pretty good at that, whatever it was', and don't waste your time in a noisy environment when there is learning to be done," This is the first video of yours that I attempted to watch and I have to say, there is one or two men in this field who also preach about distractions and both of them are very well known, Mr. Bruce Cheaney and Mr. Al Stohlman. That music in the background was very nice, I could listen to it over a cold beer all afternoon, but it is very distracting when a person is trying to take in information which you may find so easy it is like buttoning your shirt. But to many of us, it is quite offsetting to trying to learn something that, in your own words, is a "Deceptively hard thing to do right". If memory serves me, one of the very first tools I bought was a basket weave tool from the original Tandy Leather store in Texas back in the '50's. Yeah, it was hard for me to learn but I had nobody to show me how to use any of the tools needed to do this work. It took me many tries just to figure out how to line up the tool so the image looked like basket weave instead of chicken scratch all over my piece of leather, [the side of an old high top hunting boot I tore down for the leather to practice on!]. I say this because, in one of my careers, I also taught the trade with which I made my living, and the very first year I taught a fresh out of high school group of guys, I was "caught" doing the exact same thing. I taught a one year program in Auto Body Repair and owned and operated my own shop for 9 years prior to going into teaching. My first task was to show my class how to "rough out" a minor dent in a front fender using a body hammer and dolly. After about 15 minutes of banging and hammering and doing what needed to be done, I stopped and asked if there were any questions. There was dead silence in the shop ..... then one young man stood up and he asked, "Mr. Tom, I can see clearly and I understand what you are doing with that body hammer but tell me, what the heck is that big hunk of steel in your other hand that you have hidden behind the fender supposed to do?" Straightening dents was so familiar to me on a daily basis that I forgot to mention the one crucial tool that allowed me to "roll out" a dent like it was some kind of child's play!! I will let you be the judge of how important it may be, to those of us who are learning something that you may well know like the back of your hand, to find a focus without noisy distractions, but I will try a couple more of your videos to make sure I didn't pull the trigger prematurely on learning from your videos. I find that, at 75 years into my journey on this planet, I still have a craving to learn new things. I hope that you will be one of my teachers .........
Thank you very much for the turorial. I agree with others in that a lower volume music would make your videos better, but the good lesson is what matters most. Hope you make more videos.
Was interested in this process, but that music was just too much. Couldn't get past more than two minutes or so. Good luck getting viewers with such poor attention to detail!
Beautifully done. Thank you for sharing your technique! You and I seem to have the same attitude towards things as well! My cousin was watching the video with me and he said we would probably get along great, LOL 😂
I thought the music was fine and I learned a lot from this, I've been trying to do this but keep failing, I have two basket weave stamps and didn't realize one was bigger than the other, I was using the small one and without making a straight line to follow, I'll make a line next time and use my big one, thanks
Enjoyed both the video about the how-to portion AND the music. I do have an odd question, though. If you are trying to apply the basket weave pattern over a curved surface that cannot be laid out flat, are there any changes in how you approach the layout to make it all flow together right? What I am wanting to do is to simulate a fiberglass weave pattern into a plastic surface and the pattern is a pretty good match for the basket weave, so I was thinking of getting one of the stamps and heating it enough to emboss the pattern into the plastic, then painting it, smoothing it off, and sealing it with a clear coat. I would think that rocking it over the curves *should* work, but I am not certain about how to lay out the guide line(s) to get it to match up. Any suggestions? Thanks.
D436 is a very common stamp. Not sure why you're buying it in a set. I've seen it at both Tandy and SLC (They carry Realeather just don't mention the brand I don't think), probably a lot more. Just go to the Tandy or SLC website and search for D436. It's a camo stamp and will run you about 8 bucks pretty much anywhere.
I don't like hitting with a maul especially with the nerve damage in my arm so I use an old bronze head Lixie hammer. It weighs 12 oz and is perfect for me as I cannot hold the tool in my left hand because not enough gripping strength. So I hold stamp with right hand (am right-handed) and hammer with left, actually after practice I do better than I did before I hurt my arm.
its good info, but yes, the music is very hard to hear over. you're also trying to talk over it making it feel even louder than it already is and makes it sound like you are unsure of what you're doing, which isn't true after watching the full video. I hope this gave some good advice and I hope to see more of your stuff.
One of the best videos on basket weave I have seen. Thanks. By the way, who is it that makes the Little Wacker square mallet? My audio burped as you were telling about it.
Don’t really like the border look on basket weave. My first and only time so far was a business card holder and I just faded the basket weave into the stitch line.
Would have liked to watch this, but the music and the volume so completely competed with one another that I stopped it after 1:32 and decided to leave. No subscribing to this waste of band width,
After drawing the start line, it seems that the placement of the die is critical. You explain how to line up after the first impression but it’s almost impossible to seehohw you do it on the video as there is either a shadow or your hand blocks the view. Frustrating as hell to try to see and the hammer or your hand blocks the view. Clearly you know what you’re doing but I wish it were easier to see. As an aside, the background sound is distracting to me.
I disliked your video for 1 reason not even 37 seconds into it. Turn the music down. It's easier to hear you explain thing and is not distracting like it now.
After a 50 year hiatus from a budding interest in leather craft to do a few things like go military for a couple of years back in the '60's, come back, get married, have kids, get divorced, have 2 entirely different careers spanning most of those 50 odd years, here I am now. To illustrate how much time I had on my hands when I retired in 2008, I am just now getting back into re-learning leather working.
I remember so little about my early days tooling leather but one thing my dad drilled into my head, he told me, "If you want to spend time learning something, ...anything..., focus on learning and have no distractions if you want to be able to say , 'I was pretty good at that, whatever it was', and don't waste your time in a noisy environment when there is learning to be done,"
This is the first video of yours that I attempted to watch and I have to say, there is one or two men in this field who also preach about distractions and both of them are very well known, Mr. Bruce Cheaney and Mr. Al Stohlman. That music in the background was very nice, I could listen to it over a cold beer all afternoon, but it is very distracting when a person is trying to take in information which you may find so easy it is like buttoning your shirt. But to many of us, it is quite offsetting to trying to learn something that, in your own words, is a "Deceptively hard thing to do right". If memory serves me, one of the very first tools I bought was a basket weave tool from the original Tandy Leather store in Texas back in the '50's. Yeah, it was hard for me to learn but I had nobody to show me how to use any of the tools needed to do this work. It took me many tries just to figure out how to line up the tool so the image looked like basket weave instead of chicken scratch all over my piece of leather, [the side of an old high top hunting boot I tore down for the leather to practice on!].
I say this because, in one of my careers, I also taught the trade with which I made my living, and the very first year I taught a fresh out of high school group of guys, I was "caught" doing the exact same thing. I taught a one year program in Auto Body Repair and owned and operated my own shop for 9 years prior to going into teaching. My first task was to show my class how to "rough out" a minor dent in a front fender using a body hammer and dolly. After about 15 minutes of banging and hammering and doing what needed to be done, I stopped and asked if there were any questions. There was dead silence in the shop ..... then one young man stood up and he asked, "Mr. Tom, I can see clearly and I understand what you are doing with that body hammer but tell me, what the heck is that big hunk of steel in your other hand that you have hidden behind the fender supposed to do?" Straightening dents was so familiar to me on a daily basis that I forgot to mention the one crucial tool that allowed me to "roll out" a dent like it was some kind of child's play!!
I will let you be the judge of how important it may be, to those of us who are learning something that you may well know like the back of your hand, to find a focus without noisy distractions, but I will try a couple more of your videos to make sure I didn't pull the trigger prematurely on learning from your videos. I find that, at 75 years into my journey on this planet, I still have a craving to learn new things. I hope that you will be one of my teachers .........
Thank you very much for the turorial. I agree with others in that a lower volume music would make your videos better, but the good lesson is what matters most. Hope you make more videos.
Was interested in this process, but that music was just too much. Couldn't get past more than two minutes or so. Good luck getting viewers with such poor attention to detail!
Straight to the point awesome video this really helped me lot thanks!!
Flogging Molly! Love that band!
Wow dude! You arw good! I was amazed at your speed until I remembered that I was watching this at 2x speed! Thank you foe tips!!!
I have been working on my basket weave a lot lately. I really appreciated the tips.
Beautifully done. Thank you for sharing your technique! You and I seem to have the same attitude towards things as well! My cousin was watching the video with me and he said we would probably get along great, LOL 😂
Some good tips, thanks for sharing your experience.
AWESOME video! Thank you!
music to loud hard to hear the voice over back ground noise
Thanks for the lesson. Good tips on border stamps.
Muy bueno para asee las cosas lo felicito
What is that racket in the back ground.
I too shall drop a music comment... at least its Floggin Molly
Music distracting
Ernie Thomas Tandy leather carries that tool now anyway it’s in your new book
Where can you purchase the tool you used
I thought the music was fine and I learned a lot from this, I've been trying to do this but keep failing, I have two basket weave stamps and didn't realize one was bigger than the other, I was using the small one and without making a straight line to follow, I'll make a line next time and use my big one, thanks
good job and great video
Enjoyed both the video about the how-to portion AND the music. I do have an odd question, though. If you are trying to apply the basket weave pattern over a curved surface that cannot be laid out flat, are there any changes in how you approach the layout to make it all flow together right? What I am wanting to do is to simulate a fiberglass weave pattern into a plastic surface and the pattern is a pretty good match for the basket weave, so I was thinking of getting one of the stamps and heating it enough to emboss the pattern into the plastic, then painting it, smoothing it off, and sealing it with a clear coat. I would think that rocking it over the curves *should* work, but I am not certain about how to lay out the guide line(s) to get it to match up. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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D436 is a very common stamp. Not sure why you're buying it in a set. I've seen it at both Tandy and SLC (They carry Realeather just don't mention the brand I don't think), probably a lot more.
Just go to the Tandy or SLC website and search for D436. It's a camo stamp and will run you about 8 bucks pretty much anywhere.
What is the song starting at 6:58?
GET RID OF MUSIC
@ 18:48 I got that same tool you used for the border in a really cheap 20 piece set I got off ebay so I think that is a Chinese made leather tool
Beautiful!!!
the music is not that loud...I wonder if these guys would be whining so much if it was that techno/dance crap you hear on everything now.
Where did you get your basket weave stamping tool and do they have different sizes? Thanks.
I got it from Clay miller, pretty sure he's got quite a few styles and sizes
m.facebook.com/leatherstampsbyclaymiller/
I don't like hitting with a maul especially with the nerve damage in my arm so I use an old bronze head Lixie hammer. It weighs 12 oz and is perfect for me as I cannot hold the tool in my left hand because not enough gripping strength. So I hold stamp with right hand (am right-handed) and hammer with left, actually after practice I do better than I did before I hurt my arm.
its good info, but yes, the music is very hard to hear over. you're also trying to talk over it making it feel even louder than it already is and makes it sound like you are unsure of what you're doing, which isn't true after watching the full video. I hope this gave some good advice and I hope to see more of your stuff.
Thanx bro
Music made it much to distracting to watch. I made it 50 seconds.
thats 45 seconds more than i could stand, such annoying background noise
Music, poor sound quality, shadowing of tool by hand could be overcome by adjusting lighting, interesting and instructive
are you serious w/ the music...good info though
What's with that f#@king music? Left at the one minute mark.
I think Tandy used to make a camouflage tool like that, but it's been long discontinued.
One of the best videos on basket weave I have seen. Thanks. By the way, who is it that makes the Little Wacker square mallet? My audio burped as you were telling about it.
Leather wranglers
leatherwranglers.com/shop?olsPage=products%2Flw-whacker
Thanks.
D436 stamp you can get it from SLC (Springfield Leather Company)
I was going to subscribe, but that music killed any desire I had to follow your channel.
I found that stamp here - www.weaverleathersupply.com/. Do you do anything special to get the blue tape completely off? I'm having trouble with that.
Depends on the leather, if it's being particularly obstinate I will try to skive it off with a head knife
Why the tape? I don't understand why you used the tape.
What the hell would you blast music when trying to teach
I CAN CLEARLY HEAR YOU.
There's a couple of things that make a bad video and loud music in the background is one of them.
Don’t really like the border look on basket weave. My first and only time so far was a business card holder and I just faded the basket weave into the stitch line.
Start right where can't fipping see it
Enough of the MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!~!
Really like the background music. What is it
Dropkick Murpheys, Devil's Dance Floor
Flogging Molly not Dropkick Murphys
Love Flogging Molly but please turn the stereo down.
I love the music. Man after my own heart!!
I like music and I like to learn. I was here to learn. I could not hear you.
When you went to school did your teacher play music in the background while she taught? Ahhhh Nope...neither should you...
That's for sure!
Would have liked to watch this, but the music and the volume so completely competed with one another that I stopped it after 1:32 and decided to leave. No subscribing to this waste of band width,
No music please.
Sadly found the music distracting
I'm trying so hard not to sing along with Dropkick Murphy's. Lol
Must focus
Isn't it Floggin Molly? :-) I love this song :-D
Flogging Molly
OHHH Get RID of that damn horrible noise in the background.
Bad music. Can’t watch. ☹️
If you’re going to make videos, turn the radio off first. It’s hard to hear you over the radio.
Gosh, lose the music noise...very annoying !
If you only you can complain about the music you have missed the whole. lesson only because your were not serious to learn the trade. Have a good day.
wish you didn't have music on
Working in the shadow of your own hand does not equal accuracy.
Why is the music so loud? It is annoying and takes away from the video.
After drawing the start line, it seems that the placement of the die is critical. You explain how to line up after the first impression but it’s almost impossible to seehohw you do it on the video as there is either a shadow or your hand blocks the view. Frustrating as hell to try to see and the hammer or your hand blocks the view. Clearly you know what you’re doing but I wish it were easier to see. As an aside, the background sound is distracting to me.
Music is way to loud 😮
Turn the music off it's unnecessary in a tutorial...
One more hate comment....kill the music! One minute-thirty seconds....I am out....
Music it too amnoying. Couldnt do it.
Get rid of the music !!
Didn’t like music in background, poor lighting, ( hands shadowing where you place stamp), and your project is out of frame.
Why are you yelling over music that’s too loud. Maybe I’ll check you out some other time.
Basket weave is not hard, anyone can do it.
Might have learned something but anyone who thinks that crap music is the right background isn't worth listening too. Bye.
I tried to watch. The music is annoying.
To bad the background music ruins your video,, Not wasting my time..
Music needs to go. So distracting
Music is annoying
Shut off the music
Turn off the damn music! We want the info but get out of the music crap!!
Get rid of the music
The music is yuck!
Turn that darn music down or off, can’t subscribe or thumbs up due to that crap!
Somethings wrong with you man.
I disliked your video for 1 reason not even 37 seconds into it. Turn the music down. It's easier to hear you explain thing and is not distracting like it now.
This may be the
worst video produced EVER!
I don’t like your language.
I listened for 1 minute and then left. GET RID OF THAT MUSIC.