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When I first got into leatherworking in the early seventies, I assumed that the best way to get good was to buy every single ^&%&((*&$#%$ stamp. Nothing wrong with them, but it's not very artistic. Based on what little I remembered from about a half-century ago, I'd get a couple of very good swivel knives, a stone plate to do your work upon, a skiving tool or two and a couple of edgers.Beginning leather working author K. Laye?
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Hand tools powered or non powered that is the question.
Thank you for the information.When I first got into leatherworking in the early seventies, I assumed that the best way to get good was to buy every single ^&%&((*&$#%$ stamp. Nothing wrong with them, but it's not very artistic. Based on what little I remembered from about a half-century ago, I'd get a couple of very good swivel knives, a stone plate to do your work upon, a skiving tool or two and a couple of edgers.
You'd be surprised just how well you can do your art with just those tools along with a coupla thread punches as well as circular ones, some Chicago screw sets, waxed thread, and maybe some rivets; you should be able to make just about anything. The hard plastic "braille" style of raised designs you roll (I used a rolling pin) onto cased leather gives you a good start, but I like free-hand.
But I wouldn't spend on power tools unless maybe if I were to sew some ~4-ounce leather into leggings or maybe a shirt.
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