Day three was a continuation of preparing the pieces and components of the shoe, and coming to grips with tools, and for the first time, some machines. Sewing machines mainly. Plus brogueing. To fit together, the pieces of leather need to be cut with allowance for sewing; small extra edges Read more…
Okay, so day two was all about finishing the patterns, and then cutting. Lots of cutting. Basically all day cutting. So it was also about the tools. The original tool I worked with was a craft scalpel with a disposal blade. Which was fine, but didn’t quite feel right in Read more…
So this is all happening because of a chance bit of searching on the basis of finding something old, namely, some boots I had made years ago. These were made by Sue Engels of Something Shoetable, which at the time was based in Upper Cuba street, Wellington. There were various Read more…
This is a few photos from the knife making course I did in September, 2016, following on from the billet making course I did in August, and I talked about in a previous post. I will try and tidy this up, order the photos, and discuss it a bit more Read more…
The knife making course I did was through the Learning Connexion, which is a private art school based in Upper Hutt. I ended up doing two courses; the first was three days making a piece of “Damascus Steel”, the second was three days making a knife, using the piece of Read more…
This is the first window Jo and I made. It’s been a while but I’ve finally added some pictures. Originally we were going to do two designs; one upper or lower half each. We even went so far as to but the coloured glass. However it soon became apparent that Read more…