Mountain Dulcimer Case

Case for my handmade mountain dulcimer.

First BIG project and even bigger learning experience.

Took ~ a year or so to finish (and i never fully lined it...)

This was the first phase of the dye job. I grew dissatisfied with the washed out look and dyed over it again and finished it. Don't have pics yet.

learned:

1.) Casing is important. NOT soaking the leather to mush is important. hot water is BAD

2.) Parallel lines are a pain.

3.) Hand stitching hurts

4.) Mitering is difficult

5.) leather stretches more than you want it too

6.) eco-flo black sucks. eco-flo black antique, also sucks.

7.) basket weave is tricksy.

in person is easy to see my 'learning curve' in my tooling and stitching. its an interesting capture of the growth of my skills.