This piece is quite a bit different from a lot of my other work but it really was a lot of fun to make. What made it so fun was that I was really branching out into something new. I've done a lot of leather work before but not something like this.
First off let me say that the pattern for this shield is not mine. I got the pattern as a free download from Tandy Leather. All of the work on this shield however is mine. This is by far the largest leather piece I had done to that point, the shield is 24 inches in diameter, so it's full size.
The tooling work on it is quite extensive as you can see. It took me close to 40 hours to make this, but the end result made it totally worth it.
I made this shield as a special gift for a sword and arms collector.
The back of the shield is covered in a buck-skin suede with some strong leather strips for the arm straps. The core of this shield is 3/4 inch plywood rather painstakingly cut into a circle.
Here is a close up just for the fun of it. This way you can see the leather tooling better.
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