How to Use Basket Tools in Leather Working

Video Transcript

"So remember there is a lot of different tools that are available, single action tools and I've only shown you a few, kind of the more popular ones. Some of them are designed in kind of a neat way which allows you to make really kind of more intricate patterns over a large area. I've got an example of one of those here. This is one example of like a basket weave tool which as you can see on it's own is just kind of, has one little pattern. If I do one single impression of this, I'll kind of do one right now, it kind of looks like this. You can maybe see that. Actually, I can maybe do that a little bit more firmly here. Let me do that a little bit more firmly. I did about three whacks there, but the tool didn't move from where it was supposed to be so. I can sort of, kind of feel the ridges there and kind of slip it back in. That's like what one impression of what the basket tool looks like. Maybe not too interesting on it's own but what you can do is, you can start doing several impressions like this next to one another. So now I've kind of done a second one here, let me kind of get a little deeper. Okay, now I'll do a third one right next to it here. See, you can see a pattern starting to develop. So now what I do for the next row, I'm going to have the same tool just sort of shifted so that it's about kind of in the middle. Sort of like, almost like doing a brick laying pattern. So now I'm going to do the next row like this. And then shift it over again and what you'll see when we continue this, that a pattern starts to develop that looks almost like a basket weave here. I'll just do one more little impression here. Alright, so I've basically done several stampings of this tool kind of in a brick laying fashion, you see it's starting to make what looks kind of like a basket weave pattern. Actually I have another sort of not the best example but, here's kind of an example I did earlier of kind of the basket pattern alright. There's a lot of different stamps like this that are available, you can do kind of really neat effect like this over a large area."