The most exciting event from last week was the Rocky Mountain Leather Trade Show in Sheridan, WY. Chris and I made a few really good purchases. We added to our tools with three new knives from Knip Custom Knives out of Rochester, MN. They are the sharpest knives I have ever used and I am so excited to use them. I cut out tops and panels out of tooling leather, for the dark brown chaps I am working on now with the round knife and it was like I was cutting paper. They cut so much better then any of the other knives we have, there is just no comparison.
The other knives we got were a curved knife used for straight cuts and getting in tight corners. And then another called a skiving knife which should make one of the hardest processes of leather working just that much easier. I have to say skiving is one of the biggest things I need to work on more, to do it well, and it can't hurt to have a tool sharp enough to handle the cut.
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| Knip Custom Knives |
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| Tops and Panels |
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| Wayne Jueschke Stamping tools |
The other cool tools we bought at the Trade Show are two stamping tools. I can only buy a few a year because of the cost but these should be tools that will last a life time. The bigger of the two is a geometric stamp and then the other is a border stamp. These stamping tools are made by Wayne Jueschke out of Elko, NV. I can't say enough about the quality of his tools, and we will see how the end product looks on the tops for the chaps I am working on now.
