Horn Cap

[Peter_M]

Did this one a bit ago for a saddle I just finished.




Thank you for looking.

Peter

 

[diandwill]

The initials, background and flowers are great. The bright cut scrolls are really good, a few dog legs, but life sized who will notice. The running wheat border is weak. A little more taper to the cuts at the points, and more on the notches would help lots. All in all, a great looking cap!

 

[Arnaud Van Tilburgh]

Will look great on a saddle

arnaud

 

[Willem Parel]

Beautiful piece Peter, I like every part of it:clapping:
I am really impressed, what's your way of working on a piece like this.
Do you make a drawing on paper first?
Do you start with the flowers and start to wriggle followed by brightcut or is every detail planned before you start.

 

[Peter_M]

Thank you all for commenting and pressing the like button.

Diandwill,
Got a bit of track on wiggling the backbone, looked good at the time but its off a bit, thanks on the tips for the border, first time I tried my hand on that.

Arnaud,
It dose look good on the saddle and the customer is happy.

Willem,
The horn cap 3" diameter (7.5 cm). I do draw and decide on the basic layout on paper. On this one I cut the border first, drew the flowers and backbone on the silver, cut the flowers, wiggled the backbone and then brightcut the leaves. It ended up quite close how I had planed it out initially.

Peter

 

[diandwill]

Here is Sam's tutorial. Yours is nice, just needs a little refinement.

http://www.igraver.com/runningwheat/