cowboychmst

I used an awl for the pancake sheath. I have a 4 pronged stitching chisel that I use sometimes. If there are multiple layers of leather I struggle with keeping the back line straight though. I imagine practice will improve that.

Maybe this will work. I'm new to leatherworker.net so I hope sharing my album will get you access to the rest of the pictures. once again feel free to critique my work. Thanks

I decided it would be a good idea to make my daughter a belt for christmas. This is the final product, any advice on how to bring out the tooling better would be greatly appreciated. after the belt I caught the bug and purchased some leather. my next projects were sheaths for some knives and an axe, and a holster. I will post pictures of the other projects soon. Please give any advice on how to make my work look more finished.

Thanks for this very thorough tutorial. As a beginner in this craft I definitely have learned a lot, and appreciate your willingness to share your experience. I do have one question about the finish. Is the stain you used water based? I have used water based ecoflow stains before with poor results on the finish. Especially getting them to not run when wet. Is olive oil all you used to finish? How much and how many coats? Any way thank you in advance for answering my question.