Yes! I would love to learn about backgrounds, also what to do when you may not want one. This was a great video! As a photographer it helped so much looking at the photo in this manner and having you point out the triangles and the highlights and shadows like you did!!

I recently acquired some old leather craft supplies. Lots of stamps. Two of the tools that had tiny individual blades. I tried them on some scrap leather. Put them back in the tool block. When I found out what they were I wanted to take another look at them. They were gone! Not a trace. Must've been the favorite tools of the original owner that is no longer with us.

This video is AMAZING! I'm going to watch it several times to soak up every bit of your advice on creating hair texture. I'm so happy to see a tutorial on tooling with this much detail. I'm absolutely thrilled with with your extensive use of modeling spoons! I hope you will be back on a regular basis with much more content. Good job, Weaver, for bring us such an awesome tooling instructor.

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yes, more on backgrounding. Thanks!

Outstanding again buddy, I'm working my way through your back catalogue. I believe you make something to grab someone's attention but on the same hand I wouldn't want it to be gaudy so they notice your work and when they get close enough that's when they actually see the piece, you can look and not see if you get my meaning, and it's the detail that sells it. People can see time thought and imagination have been put into this piece of artwork, you have taken a flat medium and created depth and highlight, you are both painter and sculptor in one you use the tools as a brush and also a chisel. You are an extremely talented artist buddy and an even better teacher as you are very generous with your instruction thank you again and I wish I had a fraction of your talents and skill, all the very best from Scotland.

Very helpful, I've always had problems with hair

I would love to see a video on background shading.

Excellent video. Putting the hair blade in the swivel knife is a great tip! Love learning new things.

Great video! Thanks for taking the time to explain the 'why', not just the 'how' part of the process. I would live to see a video on backgrounding, keep up the great work!!

Beautiful work, as I get more tools I want to try this. Really enjoy your videos.

Amazing. This video will help take my leather work to the next level. Thanks!

That was excellent. I don't do a lot of hair currently but I do a lot of florals where I can apply this .

That's awesome! Just out of curiosity, could you use similar techniques to make bark textures? If not could you do a video to show us how you would approach creating a bark texture in your tooling? Thanks for the amazing instructions!

Daniel, I will give you a really great. Plus you’re amazing at what you can do. Where did you get the double edged sword that you used for the hair? I can see a lot of uses for that in leather 19:45 19:45 airbrush’s I bought, I couldn’t get the paint to come out of the airbrush. I know you get what you pay for. Boy did I get what I paid for, NOTHING. I decided that I would purchase a good airbrush from an excellent manufacturer. I bought an “Ultra 2024” from Harder & Steenbeck of Germany. At least I found out what an excellent airbrush feels like and it worked very well. Thank you forgiving everyone your time and knowledge. Best regards, Richard

Thank you for this one. I'm going to watch this a couple of times so I get it right. Would you mind doing a step video? Like: you are done with the carving then you do this and this. I'd like to know when oiling the project fits in mostly. Or do you even oil the leather? Yes, I'd like a background video also please and thank you. Carving leather, I've thought it's out of my wheel house, but after watching your videos I can't wait to try it. Hopefully soon.

Great vid Dan! The irony was the hook, but after watching your work, I'm going to get me a modeling spoon. One question I have, how long, or how, do you case your leather for that kind of work?

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Bald guy teaching us about hair, that's a Reach. Get it, Daniel Reach? Bwahahaha

Awesome advice! When I started, back in the day, I watched RhymeswithCandy (#ChuckDorsett) videos trying to learn the hair blade - they got nothing on You! I'm finally develoing a concept to creating hair texture! THANK YOU! Also... How wet was your leather when removing texture? It seemed to melt away... As if it was really wet. But it can't be, because then the other textures wouldn't stick, they'd smoothen themselves out...

Okaaayyy..... now the hair hiding his eyes?