Leather Craft - Tiller´s Guitar Strap

 Tiller´s guitar strap.. flames, blood and my Guild S-90..

Gilding & Lettering

More or less done with the outline and shadowing of the gold leaf on my friends Sportster gas tank..

For this one I used House of Kolor "Royal Blue" and "Process Blue". I dont think I´m going to use HOK much more again.. 1-shot enamel is more glossy, more pigment, it flows better, it doesn´t dry as fast and is a little cheaper.. :-)

Anyway, now it´s time for my friend Kristian Sabel to add the clear to make the flake pop..

Gold Leaf - Little Bastard

Started to put some blue variegated gold leaf on a Sportster gas tank for a Harley bobber.. With a little outlining, shadowing and clear to make the flake pop, I think it might be pretty cool :-) or what do you think? :-)

Chalkboard Sign at il moro

Wasting some quality time at my favourite coffee shop "il moro" in Oslo and the owner asked if I wanted to do a chalkboard sign.. haven´t been playing with chalk since the school days, but the owner was happy about it and then I guess I should be too.. the other side will be done when having the next coffee. Guess I should wear my "will work for coffee" sign...

Graphics..

Just trying to learn some photoshop graphic for sign inspiration..

Lettering sketch..

Just sketching some lettering ideas..

Lettering - Betty Boom Boom

Started to do some lettering on my friends shotgun.. "Betty Boom Boom" as the shotgun is from his grandmother Betty.. it´ll be the only gun I´ll ever spill some paint on..

Leather Craft - La Linea

 The "La Linea" Panhead bobber in progress which I made the Biltwell leather solo seat for.. soon to be ready on the road!

Leather Craft - Letterpress

Got a dresser with twelve drawers full of old letters and numbers, all made out of brass, all kinds of fonts and styles for an old letterpress.. experimenting on how to use them on leather with a home made press.. The drawback is that some "clown" tipped over the dresser and thousands of letters where mixed together, and it's a nightmare to sort them all again. At least I got something to do the next few months... Lots of oppertuneties for wallets, book covers, tank bibs etc..

Oslo Motor Show 2012

A few shots from our stand at Oslo Motor Show 2012 where me and Kristian Sabel had a corner on Biker Journalesn stand.. over 30.000 visitors over the weekend and there was a lot of interest for my leather work.. The photos below is taken by Kristian Tjessem.

Leather Craft - Tuck & Roll/French Seam

Finished a new leather solo seat today with a kind of tuck & roll with french seam..

Durkopp Adler 291

Beside painting it, It´s pretty cool to sew pinstriping motives... The machine easily sews a couple of layers of thick veg tanned leather and it´s great for upholstery work too.. Guess a little nerdy, but this is very exciting :-) Lots of new opportunities is opening up with this machine..

Leather Craft - Gillens New Chopper

Seat is all done and attached and the bike is ready for the road..

Leather Craft - Tank bib..

Rolf Arilds gas tank bib. (not a very good picture, but the only one I got)

Leather Craft - All done..

Leather Craft - Dragon seat update..

Leather Craft - New Dragon Seat

Started on a new seat for a huge redneck engineering framed chopper..

Leather Craft - Harley Tank Bib..

A hand tooled skull tank bib for Rolf Arild´s Harley..

1-shot pinstriping enamel

Finally 1-Shot pinstriping and lettering enamel has a dealer in Norway again! Ordered yesterday and the package was already at the post office today :-) Check out SCS Norway: https://www.facebook.com/ScsNorway or http://www.scs-norway.com for their 1-shot products.. Also, if you are interested in custom paint, they are a dealer of "Pinstriping & Custom Graphics Magazine". One of the better magazines out there of this kind.

Pinstriping - Softail Bobber

A Harley Softail Bobber which I pinstriped gas tank and back fender a little while ago is now attached and on the road.. Paint by Kristian Sabel.

Leather Craft - Credit Card Holder

Credit Card Holder with Old Skool "Biltwell" motive for sale at: http://276ccm.bigcartel.com/

Pinstriping, Gold Leaf & Leather Craft

Kristian Sabel painted and flaked it and I pinstriped the flames, added gold leaf motive on the oil tank and made the leather seat with motive..

Leather Craft - New Credit Card Holders

Just made some new credit card holders, and they are for sale at : http://276ccm.bigcartel.com/

Leather Craft - Watch Strap

Just did my first attemt at making my self a watch strap.. already got some ideas for making improvements with stitches and maybe some skull rivets, but at least it looks a lot cooler than the white plastic strap it used to have :-) even tho the watch is still crap!

New items in the store..

Made several new credit card holders and added some new leather craft items at the store: http://276ccm.bigcartel.com/

Leather Craft - Bikes on the road..

Three bikes I made leather seats for is ready for the road...

Leather Craft - La Pera solo seat.

All done and ready to be attached to the custom chopper.

Big Cartel Store

Just got a Big Cartel store for my leather craft products.. click here: http://276ccm.bigcartel.com/ to check it out.. Remember to bookmark it and check back now and then as I will add more products as soon as it´s made. Cheers..