Learning How to Leather Carve

I've always been impressed by many artists who have done some amazing leather tooling (i.e. leather carving). I've done some basic leatherworking over time, but I have never done any leather tooling, so I thought I might rectify that oversight.

The Internet is an amazing resource to look up nearly everything that you want to do. There are a ton of tutorials and videos on leather carving. I spent a little bit of time watching some Youtube videos and reading up on leather carving about some of the basics, basic tools, etc., that I would need.

The Tandy leather store was having a September sale, so I picked up a few things that I didn't have just so I could play with leather carving:

• A basic stamp set
  
  
• a couple of Craftaid Templates that would act as my design (so I could concentrate on just the carving portion) 
• scraps of veg-tanned leather for practice. 

After I got everything in place, I just started practicing with some simple basic designs. Here are two examples:

Here are a couple of the resources I looked at on the web. There are a lot, so I suggest doing a Google search on leather carving.

Sample resources:

• Tandy's instructional YouTube videos on Stamping & Carving: 
• http://amtgard.natkd.com/basic_leather_carving.htm 
• http://www.squidoo.com/Basic-Leather-Carving