For the next sheath I decided to do away with sewing all together and try it with rawhide; the following series of photos shows the pattern cut out, notice how the lace is also cut from the same piece of material then skived and edged as normal, notice also how I created the design so that the edge of the blade runs along the folded side and not the laced side as is normal, doing away with any need for an extra narrow piece along the laced edge.

sheath pattern;

method used for belt loop

 knife in finished sheath after drying

Detail of handle rope work - continous reverse crowning with diamond knots and a 10ply star knot. 

finished knife

Paul

His names red baird and its about his search for the “gold of bane” - http://www.mtn-m.co.uk/Portfolio_flash.html.

paul

Find it on my home page - http://www.mtn-m.co.uk/.

This took me about 12 days to complete from initial ideas to drawing and gathering of assets to the final animation of the whole scene. Quite good fun and opened my eyes to the many techniques which can be used within Flash.

The SWF movie can be seen on my portfolio page - http://www.mtn-m.co.uk/Portfolio_flash.html.

Many of the Guy’s and Gal’s serving at the moment  come back in much the same condition but there will be a few who may not and who, coming from a society wrapped in cotton wool not find the understanding and support they need to recover.

Luckily they have the help of H4H and other such organisations who are equiped to help and deal with injuries, physical and mental which most of use would of never had to deal with. In order to do this they need funds just as much as your sympathy, so please give what ever you can.

my charity page - http://www.justgiving.com/Paul-Carpenter

my video diary of the walk - http://www.mtn-m.co.uk/

http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Paul

To try and make my site alittle more interesting then just plain pictures I started to learn how to use it about 2 months ago and made my new portfolio - http://www.mtn-m.co.uk/Portfolio_flash.html - not fantastic but give me a chance.

After that little experiment I started to play with it in regard to the kids book idea, the image and swf file below show a part of a new flash protfolio I’m in the middle of creating. In the process of designing and creating new illustration for it I had the chance to further develop the look and also manners of the characters as would be shown in short motion film clips I plan to place within the galleries - this in its self enabled me to better understand the type of story I wanted to write - the more I planned it and researched those things that have mostly influenced me, the more I realised that this story was’nt meant for kids but also for adults like in the genre of ’shrek’ or ‘tom and jerry’ (maybe alittle to long ago for some to remember them) and of course ‘the simpsons’.

       Small flash display

I guess being a natural piss taker and prankster, I was going to have differculty trying to make a story which would be suitable for young kids - critics abound in this global village of ours and I would’nt want to make their day at all - so instead as always I,ve ended up following the path that most suits my humour and once I’ve learnt the finer points of flash animation, will carry on with jim and judys adventures in way I guess that best pleases me and brings smile to my viewers.

Paul

Caused one major problem of which might mean I have to snip the end for the competition - The movie was made in flash on a time line of 29 seconds but when saved its length extends to 35 seconds - never really got to the reason why this should happen but if any body knows please tell me as it could be a pain for future master pieces!

I entitled the ‘Get the Manitos’ and  starts with a guy strolling in the park when he is set upon by a gang of doritos…………and eaten - ends with the text ‘eat all doritos now, before they eat you.

Its not been excepted by the Doritos gang and is open to viewing on their site - http://kingofads.doritos.co.uk/video/1163021127

Its loaded here as a HTML movie so will just play on your browser.

Doritos advert

Hope you like it…….

Paul

For the first time in ages I have had two days of long walks, the first was not planned - started as a normal dog walk but because the river findhorn had been so high lately I wanted to try and walk upto a stretch of gorge - unfortunatly it was further away then I had thought but still got a few nice photos

At the moment I don’t hike as much as I used to, so am planning to do a hike a week in the cairngorms to help get ready for the long walk. This friday I’m gonna head towards loch einich from loch an eilein - never have been that way before and given the amount of snow still in the hills, the dog should be able to handle it OK and not sink knee deep into the snow as I did a few weeks ago by the lairig ghru.

Cheers for all donation and encouragement so far.

Paul

if you feel like donating, thanks -  visiting my webpage - http://www.justgiving.com/Paul-Carpenter

here’s hoping that the worsed they all come home with is a deep tan.