My Leather Carving and Tooling Class Experience - Don Gonzales Class Review -
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- Опубликовано: 1 мар 2024
- First, The classes were a blast. Don ran well organized hands on tooling classes.
Don Gonzales took the time to connect with each person in the class. The class size was 15. That seemed a good class size as it brought more questions for everyone to learn from. All participants seemed to really enjoy the teaching style that Don used.
Don knows the right questions to ask to quickly figure out where each person was as far as experience and skill level than quickly tailored the instruction for each person. He had plenty of supplies from Hermann Oak Leather for us to use. Don provided handouts and additional patterns for us to take with use and I believe helped each person tool their panel the best that they could.
If you are considering signing up for a class taught by Don Gonzales, I would highly recommend it. I believe it was one of the best investments in the craft that I spent hard earn money on.
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Its always great to have a master teach us, great info you provided about yor experiance
I agree that Don is a master. Thanks for commenting
as an experienced leather carver I think you did great for day two2. If you enjoyed it keep it up. You can only get better with practice
I did enjoy it. Your are right, can’t beat investing time
You did great work !
Thanks. I had great guidance
Thanks I have been thinking about these classes happy to hear it's time and money well spent
Don is an excellent instructor!
Thank you for the overview and review of your recent class, Robert. Your day two finished project looks fantastic! It is good to hear that Don's personality in person is consistent with what comes across in his videos. His personality is the type of instructor I would do well to learn under. Perhaps I will have the opportunity to learn from him directly at some point in the future, once I feel as though I am ready to dive into tooling as you have done.
Yeah it’s interesting to try and figure out what a person back. I think I’ve decided it’s ourselves. I say that because I held myself back from trying to tool. I’m working on a different type of tooling now and it’s coming out good. I do have to say that my panel was the best it could be because when I got to a sticking point I could ask him. Now on my own I have to figure some out myself. I think without the class that I wouldn’t have carried through the hard first spots. Well maybe I would have. Enjoy your weekend
Robert, I think those panels look amazing, very nice work. Sounds like a good few days with like minded folks and a good learning experience. Take care!
It was fun to be in a group of people with the same interests. I don’t run into people in my daily walk with the same interest
The day one panel you worked on looks great. The day two was even better.
Thanks. I’m proud of the results
Sounds like you had a good instructor.
Don was very approachable and a great teacher.
I am really impressed with your work and improvement you got your money’s worth
Thanks. I need to practice more. It was a great experience
That’s awesome glad you enjoyed the classes. Enjoying retirement at its best! Way to go!
It was a great experience
Carving looks great..on your to more great success in leather carving Robert...thank you for sharing.
Don gave good instruction and then great guidance
Robert, enjoyed meeting you. Don really challenged us and I feel I'm better for it.
100 percent agree. I’m working on some other tooling at this point. Excited to get onto a floral project.
Glad you enjoyed the classes. 👍🏻
Learned a bunch.
I want to improve my craving on the leather I met him at his shop and his family there are very nice people and he is very nice too met and talk too
110 percent right there! I wish that I was in closer proximity to these suppliers and creators!
Looked like you had a great experience in Dons classes! Your work from the class looked great to me. Take care Robert👍🏻👍🏻
It was a blast.
He also has a tooling series from a few years ago that include 2 floral patterns, a horse head and a skull with a head dress. Each pattern is broken down into 3 or 4 videos and you can tool right along with him.
I will see if I can find them. I appreciate the heads up
One is called horse figure carving and the skull one is the July leather series
Thanks!
Robert, I think your tooling looks nice. I wouldn't wrinkle my nose at it. Being good at it takes practice. I sure am no expert and will not be teaching classes to anyone. Don is a nice guy I think. He is right about HO for tooling. It does burnish nicer than most import stuff. Price difference is just what keeps me from buying it. Though I think some burnish issues may also be from older leather. The older leather is, the more it dries out, and loses oils. Makes it harder to tool and make it harder to work with. Most of the leather I have bought does not have date stamping, so you never know how old it might be until you cut into it. How it's tanned sure had a lot to do with it too. I just bought some Mimosa to try from Tandy. I'm curious to see how it tools.
I think education no matter what the subject, is valuable. You are providing it yourself right through this channel. I doubt I'll ever go that far away to take a class, but I bet you sure learned a lot. I think this year I am going to buy a couple of Don's kits. The golf ball one looks pretty interesting.
Thanks for the comment! I agree on everything that you said. I did purchase his golf ball pattern with tooling pattern. I plan to create a video and see how it goes. You got me thinking about what effect it would have on the tooling with a light oil ahead (a day before) of casing and then tooling the leather. Have to see.
Very nice job 👌🏻that i call skills , i have to try some day it looks fun , gues i have to hurry up to send you a piece from Tärnsjö leather so you can try some swedish leather , what thicknes do you prefer ,
Thanks. You know it probably expensive to ship. I’ll send you an email to talk about options.