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OK, gents, I'm going out on a limb here. I would love to get your objective feedback on last night's project...
Creasing my AB Deluxe has always presented somewhat of a challenge. Marc Kitter used the Crystal Skull block on this one, and sent it to me in open crown condition. When I received the hat, I tried a few dry bashes just to check out the possibilities. Without any work whatsoever, this lid fell perfectly into place with the traditional center dent -- it almost creased itself. So, in that sense, the hat really wanted to be a center dent by its very nature. In fact, my dog whispered as much to me...
I would have been OK with the center dent, but, it sat right on the top of my noggin -- so I went with a teardrop instead. The teardrop that I put in the hat initially passed muster, I think, but I have never been completely happy with it. It seems that the combination of the Crystal Skull block and a teardrop crease left a fairly large "dome" (or "inner teardrop" as I like to call it). I had to sink the inner teardrop down in order not to have the dome portrude up over the top of the sides of the lid (which is a terrible look, IMO).
Last evening, I decided to raise the height of the teardrop to where I would normally have it. This resulted in the dome portruding fairly significantly above the sides of the lid. The question was how to keep the teardrop where I wanted it, but somehow be able to lower the height of the top of the dome itself.
My solution was to create a double teardrop. It's an unconventional look, I'll admit, but it accomplished what I was after. I'm not posting this because I think that anyone will particularly like this crease -- I'm posting it to share a somewhat different approach and to solicit your feedback. If you like it great -- if you don't, great. I'm just curious as to how this look strikes you -- any feedback is welcome. Anyway, here goes...
Cheers,
JtL
Creasing my AB Deluxe has always presented somewhat of a challenge. Marc Kitter used the Crystal Skull block on this one, and sent it to me in open crown condition. When I received the hat, I tried a few dry bashes just to check out the possibilities. Without any work whatsoever, this lid fell perfectly into place with the traditional center dent -- it almost creased itself. So, in that sense, the hat really wanted to be a center dent by its very nature. In fact, my dog whispered as much to me...
I would have been OK with the center dent, but, it sat right on the top of my noggin -- so I went with a teardrop instead. The teardrop that I put in the hat initially passed muster, I think, but I have never been completely happy with it. It seems that the combination of the Crystal Skull block and a teardrop crease left a fairly large "dome" (or "inner teardrop" as I like to call it
). I had to sink the inner teardrop down in order not to have the dome portrude up over the top of the sides of the lid (which is a terrible look, IMO).Last evening, I decided to raise the height of the teardrop to where I would normally have it. This resulted in the dome portruding fairly significantly above the sides of the lid. The question was how to keep the teardrop where I wanted it, but somehow be able to lower the height of the top of the dome itself.
My solution was to create a double teardrop. It's an unconventional look, I'll admit, but it accomplished what I was after. I'm not posting this because I think that anyone will particularly like this crease -- I'm posting it to share a somewhat different approach and to solicit your feedback. If you like it great -- if you don't, great. I'm just curious as to how this look strikes you -- any feedback is welcome. Anyway, here goes...
Cheers,
JtL
