How Do You Use A Single-Action Tool On Leather Working?
“Okay, so a single-action tool, remember, the single action that it has is a downward action where it’s making an impression. And, so , here I have a piece of case leather, and, really, you know, in a best, best of all possible worlds, best case scenario, you want to be able to make that impression with one strike of your mallet. And, it’s not always as easy as that sounds, because you kind of need to have a lot of practice hitting that tool kind of firmly and directly. So, if I was going to do a single action with this tool, this is kind of a five-pointed star, I’ve already cased this leather out, you place the tool, you make sure that it’s vertical. Not all the time, but if you do have a straight design like any of these, a flower or star or something where you want the whole design in your impression, you want to make sure it’s vertical. I’ll talk in a little bit about examples where you might want to have the tool at an angle. But, for most single action tools, you have the tool pe
