jae
November 22, 2018, 7:03pm
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Quick project for a contest someone else is running in a FB group. We all got the passport cover design to start with… after that…
I had some fun with it
Lasers make the little details so much easier!
PG Thick leather, Fiebings Medium Brown leather dye and Angelus Pearlescent 18K Gold acrylic leather paint. Total project time around 2 hours plus a bunch of ‘waiting for paint to dry’ time on the shiny bits (4-5 coats of paint!)
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Looks great. Can you tell us about your rivet tool?
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jae
November 22, 2018, 9:42pm
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I set my rivets by hand with a hammer and one of these:
Nothing fancy.
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Jules
November 22, 2018, 9:47pm
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That looks awesome with the gold paint!
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ptodd
November 23, 2018, 12:03am
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It does look like a spellbook!
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cynd11
November 23, 2018, 4:07pm
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Gosh, the gold really pops! It’s a perfect accent to the brown leather.
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jbv
November 24, 2018, 2:37am
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Darn, I was really hoping you were gonna show us some incrediblely clever quick-set rivet tool that I had never heard of!
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