Life has brought me forth on crooked ways. For long I felt lost.
1998 I becme a dad to my newborn son and the cycle of life had completed,
inner gates to the self was opened.
The inner eye had been given vision.
One dusk winternight a dark figure visited me. One raven on each shoulder sat, on his head a large hat, hiding his true nature. He gave me two tools:
a hammer and a compass.
1999 I saw a tooled leather and I was soon sitting with my hammer and homemade tools, tooling leathers.
I kept my first leather bracer with a celtic dragon, carved and tooled poorly but it was there.
The following bracers was sold on instant when I showed them in public, to friends and foe and so a few years passed on. I got my hands on proper tools
after a while and 50-60 bracers, a couple of bookcovers and small items, a growing son with growing needs of tender care and neckproblems due to monotonous work with leather it was time to check that compass again.
I wanted to move on and expand my skills towards more complex work with the leather but my compass showed another direction and I packed
down my small leathershop in 2003.
After this point I made about 1-3 bracer per year just to "keep it in my hands".
Autumn 2007. I got requests for other type of leatherproducts, my neck was allright and my son had grown into quite an independent 10 year old.
That compass had once again shifted and this time back to the leathertrail.
The results from 2007 and on can be seen in my
galleries and more is adding to it.
I'm gonna have a page dedicated to some of my old works aswell.
So what about that dark figure I met?
He's sometimes called the one eyed one and I believe he put the stars in the nightsky and gave guidance to the moon and sun on their path, he rides
a eightlegged horse, we call him Allfather or Odin.
He is also the master of handicraft and I owe him.
The present and the future!
As of today June 2008 I'm currently working alot with portfolio work. For publishing here and to tune up my skills. I' have learned alot over the past winter and still picking up fast.
I use alot alot of heavy braiding with lace instead of sewing but can do handsewing aswell. Most my work is finished of with a topcoat of acrylic finish to bind the colouring and give a good shine. 

I'm a member of leatherworker.net wich holds alot of the worlds leathercrafters, ranging from total newbies to pro's.
My work has been given good credit there and I graciously thanks the guys and gals over there, you sure know I'm tomSwede with this lengthy text;-), a special thanks to "the skullcrew" you know who you are, peeps!

I'm currently also registrating to Lone star Leathercrafters of Forth Worth Texas wich can lead to new possibilities in the future.  A special thanks to John K Karnes of Lone star who's helping me out with this and also has made me my makers stamp, the eye and compass. Love that stamp!!!

Future and what I want to do: Motorcycle seats, more fishingrod tubes, bags, ??objects covered with decorated leather like a guitar or furniture or dashboards,
boat interiors, new stuff that challenge is what I seek, making the one off custom work that might come to anyones need or add that sparkling sensation of luxury.

I aim to please!!

Tom
Confucius - Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.