Leathersmith​/Archer

These are business card cases. The upper right one, which is the only black one, is my personal one. I was trying various stamping patterns on the others to see how they turned out. The edges have single loop lacing (kinda my signature) on them.

This was a scroll for a friend. The award is for people who do good things for my barony but are not members of my barony, i.e. they live somewhere else. This was fashioned after the Sigurd Stone and the words are written in runes around the serpent on the scroll. Inside is a replaceable notebook.

This was a commission. Inside is a replaceable notebook. The design is a rendition of the Celtic Tree Of Life.

The baroness of my local barony asked me to make her coronets that were not metal or "solar collectors" as she called them. These are all leather. The silver part is 3 - 4 oz leather faced with green split grain. They are backed with black deer hide. The exquisite metal piece in the middle is silver with a real jade gem stone made by my most excellent friend Grimm who lives up North. These coronets are personal gifts of the current baron and baroness.

The baroness of my local barony asked me to make her coronets that were not metal or "solar collectors" as she called them. These are all leather. The silver part is 3 - 4 oz leather faced with green split grain. They are backed with black deer hide. The exquisite metal piece in the middle is silver with a real jade gem stone made by my most excellent friend Grimm who lives up North. These coronets are personal gifts of the current baron and baroness.

Another coronet for a friend in Florida. She was known most for being a chiurgeon (medic) at our SCA events thus the red/white symbol in front. (We were asked to remove it later as she no longer can perform those duties.) The winged bunnies are on her device and her colors are blue and white. She admits that everyone says she is nuts so she got acorns instead of the traditional pearls for a baronrial coronet. The acorns were cast by another friend Octovio de Flores.

Side view of the coronet.

Coronet made for a friend. Front view. As the pearls often pull out over time from leather coronets I used a new glue and twisted a loop in the bottom of the post. The post was then glued between the outer layer and the inner lining. Here you can see the holes at the back. There are two sets for adjustment of size. As this was for a lady, sometimes a veil, sometimes not. Thus the need for changing the size.

Pouch made to house knife shown elsewhere. Seated winged greyhound is my household symbol.

Back of knife pouch showing scabbard for knife.

This knife was gifted to me by Mark Greene who you may have seen on Forged In Fire on TV. He started this blade with dirt from which he created a bloom and then the knife blade. This knife is truly one of a kind and a gift! d(In truth, he gave a matching knife to my wife as well.)

This my personal pouch. The pattern is Celtic dogs in a circle and is impressed into the leather instead of being lifted up like most tooling.

This was a commission for a friend who wanted a larger pouch. The fur on the front flap is impala that I laced on using a single loop lace pattern. The pouch is patterned off my "standard" pounch but elongated a bit.

Standard pouch with a Celtic knot tooled in to the top flap. I've learned the trick of how to dodge out the natural leather so it doesn't take the staining applied to the rest of the piece. This causes the knot to stand out as you see here.

This is my signature item. Inside is a double walled plastic tumbler. Keeps cold things cold without sweating. The outside is covered with tooled leather. This pattern is 14th Century Italian White Vine for which my lady is well known. Yes, all that is actually tooled into the leather then painted.