@Regis and BustedLifter: Yeah, I need to get one of those one of these days. All I have is the basic 6 + swivel knife. I was going to buy some more tools, but I'm running out of leather and I would rather have leather with my current tools then more tools and no leather.
@william: Would you believe a dinner table? Most times I use my desk because it doesn't have the give or bounce that the table does, but I started tooling this wallet right after supper and the wife and kiddos where still eating so I stayed at the table. Marble is on my wish list. Oh, I've heard about glueing to cardboard. Whats matt board? Same basic thing? and no, I don't have any glue yet.
@billsotx: This is from a left over Tandy kit(6-8 projects ending with a wallet) that someone gave my wife's family when she was little and her parents gave it to me about a month or so back when I borrowed the tools from them.
I'm suspicious that I made my cuts to deep so when I pounded the shader in, the face of the other side didn't pull down to break the edges leaving them sharp. I really honed the blade on this project and it was very sharp.