Understand the Effect of Double Action Tools on Leather Working

Video Transcript

"So, we'll get into some of these different double action tools and kind of go through them, kind of one by one, the different types here. But I want to give you kind of a demonstration of what I mean when I say double action. So we'll take one like this, this is a tool called a beveler and instead of, remember it doesn't really have a design on it, so I don't want to just set that and do kind of a hard impression there. I mean, I guess you can, there's no rule that says you can't but that's not really, not really what a tool like this is designed for. What a tool like this is designed for is a more of a shaping and a molding tool to go over a long area. So if I hold it kind of in the middle, sort of loosely, right in position, but you kind of, loosely so that it can bounce up and down as you whack it with the mallet. So what I'm going to do is just kind of give it a series of taps about even force, but I'm going to just sort of let it bounce back up and sort of glide between taps. So this is kind of what it looks like. So, you can't really see the bouncing happen, but what you did see is with each tap it moved a little bit. So, what I did is now I've kind of produced this kind of area here where it's raised up here and it's sort of depressed down in here. So, this is the kind of thing you use a beveler tool for. You get this kind of effect by not being too strict about where that tool remains. In fact you want it to glide and you want it to move across the surface of the leather as you're working. So, that's why it's called the double action tool."