Making tiny tack is, like any art, a process of growth. Skill and understanding of your craft improves with every piece, though the fruit of this isn't always visible in the next saddle, or even the one after that.
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Making tiny tack is, like any art, a process of growth. Skill and understanding of your craft improves with every piece, though the fruit of this isn't always visible in the next saddle, or even the one after that.
I don't go through supplies very quickly; a half-hide of petite tooling calf has been known to last me 3-4 years (granted, during the dry hobby years of college). I still have some of the sample bottles from my very first dye order. Here's the problem: supplies have a shelf life.
I follow several model horse tack making pages on Facebook, and in one of them someone asked "What tools are needed for model horse tack?" Being the helpful person I am, I went and checked out my desk to see what was lying around and hadn't been put away between projects.
In my last post, I showed a picture of new stuff I'd picked up. Some of it was experimental, and now I that I've played with some of it I can start reporting on the various successes (or failures!).
No matter how much of a Google guru you are, it can be hard to find photos of certain things, like the way the swells are covered and how it's cut for the horn.
I haven't had the time to make a proper light tent, and my makeshift attempts have all failed miserably. The light is too warm, too dark, the results too contrasty, the backgrounds horrible.
Fact: the midwest experiences hot, humid summers that start well before the official beginning on June 21.
Fact: sticky wax has a tendency to smudge, smear, and otherwise become useless in hot, humid conditions.
