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You can also burnish it after it's stamped. Same things, denim or glass. If you use glass, it'll level out the highs and lows on basket stamp. Go easy using glass. Irregular shapes, I use denim.

Try slicking the leather before you stamp. Burnish it with denim or glass when it's dry. Case and stamp it. Compare the results.

The book cover is coming along. Same 4-5oz but in brown. When the house is around 65°F, I keep wondering if using a heating pad to warm up the Horween will help it mold. I'm not going to wrinkle the leather up so it will marble with pull up. Any pull up on the B5 journal will happen from use. Putting it on and pulling it off the book. I have 3-4oz Horween cavalier in a strap I lined a belt billet with. It's a bit thin for my tastes being the whole project. They have 8-9oz cavalier and for the world of me, I can't think of a thing, to where that thick of Horween could be used. Boots? Definitely not the things in my range of making. 4-5oz on the card holder, "fits" my style of doing things. And I hope it gives y'all lots of ideas.

Thank You, Gentlemen. It's 4-5oz. Total thickness, empty, measured with the veg tanned, 8.3mm or about 5/16ths. Measuring just the chrome, 6mm, ~ a hair under 1/4".

I once glued a liner on a belt using some kind of industrial two part epoxy. This freaking stuff was being used to glue panels on the outside of the building...overhead. The workers had thrown away a brand new double tube of it. The tubes, side by side, took a dedicated gluing gun. Afterwards, trying to push a needle through it was like trying to stitch a plastic coke bottle.

What did you put inside them?

Those are awesome! Pattern weights?

I have the Japanese leather knife that's portrayed as a skiver. I'm not into using, in American terms, a sharpened putty knife. Cutting corners? That's about all it's good for. I've never owned a safety skiver so I can't attest to it. I have a 4mm French skiver. Cheapo Chinese special off of Amazon. It does ok. I have a 1/4" skiver on the way. I can't see me needing something wider or more narrow as 4mm. Otherwise, I use a table top belt sander. Last requirement was the mounting tips of ranger belt billets. 80 grit. Before I bought the sander. It was a sanding drum in a drill press.

I'm a stickler for stitching. If it's not right, it throws off the whole piece. Yellow in unforgiving. It's big and bold. Brown thread would have hid the stitch line. Blended it in. Not with brighter colors. You can see mistakes from across the room. Seating the thread in the Horween takes a butter touch. The type of thing to where you run a practice stitch before stitching for real. It's rather enjoyable stitching chrome. Today's agenda is cutting the brown Horween for the journal. I'm still thinking out what decorations it's going to get. It usually takes me a few days of coming up a design I like. Lots of doodling in a notebook.

I've found out that all my stamps are of Tandy vintage. Bought in person in Austin. Craftool and US Stamp brand. I don't have a huge collection but I do have everything I need. I'd say something like ~25 total stamps. I'm kinda impressed with myself. My leather tools have survived my rough life. I've never lost anything. I still have them all. I have a can of saddle lac. 32oz. The can is dated 2008. The label has turned black. It's still good. Now you can't buy saddle lac unless you get a spray can.

Thank You. I usually hate everything I make. Don't see it for myself. I guess. It needs .06mm thread. And if it went traditional steam. Cigar colored. I held blue, green, and red up to the plum. I ran practice stitches using red and white. If I did it again, Green in .060mm. For which is going to never happen. Because me and this card holder have made friends. This is an item that's going to be a daily occurrence in my life. This is what that's going to be in my pocket. I bought a panel of the brown Horween cavalier. The full 26". I'm gonna cover a 7x10 inch journal. Do it up proper.

Pretty color on the back. I counter sunk the back of the snap in the chome. Only the veg tanned is holding the snap. It lays flat. Today was it's first day being in a pocket. I can barely feel it's there. (3.38mm stitch spacing. Any wider stitch looking loop was done with a 3.85mm French iron to make things match up with the corners.)

It's crazy nice leather. Hand stitching it takes practice. If you go from stitching nothing but stiff veg tanned to semi soft chrome. It's an adventure. Putting the two together adds to it. Let me take a picture of the inside. The color isn't that struck through.

This came straight out my head. I used 4-5oz Horween caviler in plum(buckleguy). Veg tanned 3-4oz dyed chocolate(Fiebing pro dye) with a huge .08mm yellow thread(Ritza). Angelus brown edge paint. I used one of those fancy open eye snaps in 12mm(buckleguy). Half the time it's ugly, the other half it's in your pocket. But it's mine. Probably my last, 'wallet' of my lifetime.

The only store bought tool I used was the needles that come in the handy stitcher. The awl with a bobbin in the handle. I never used it like it was. The needle was stuck in a drill press. Stitching wheel to mark the holes and a 12" drill press to push the needle through. I stitched leather, using a drill press, for decades. Up until I bought pricking irons.

My stitch hammer for pounding a stitch line. I can't remember what kind of hammer it was but it had the face I needed. Polished and cold blue. Shingle hammer? (It wasn't a body hammer).

Closer Pic of the ends. Lot's of dremel work. I have no idea when, "Round edgers" first came out but I was making and using them before I knew you could buy them.

The handles are short legs for something(Ash?). Bought at Lowe's. The big end was put towards the blades because of the hole the mounting screw was in. The spring steel was flat stock. I'd date the couch to the 50's or 60's. It had real cotton padding. Red oak for wood. But it was worn out and tossed. That's when I stripped it of every piece of metal. The blades are held in with two part epoxy. I don't remember the brand of glue but it's still going solid.

Thank You!

Round edgers, creaser and stitch groover. The edgers and creaser were recycled spring steel from a vintage couch. Tempered. The best metal I could find at the time of having zero money. The groover is drill stock. I made these in 2006. I've since updated to Ron's tools. But to tell the truth, I still reach for these. They give the Ron's a run for the money. The creaser is still in use. The groover is retired. <a href="https://imageresizer.com/" target="_blank">Image Resizer</a>

How are y'all posting pictures? I've tried a few ways but no success. I'm viewing this site on a tablet. I can also view it by phone. Trying to post of picture on either. I get a message the file is too big. Any help?

Nice.

I'd follow recommendations for expensive shoes made of the same. Look into things like "renovateur cream" by Saphir.

Spray that bad boy with saddle lac. I have a couple of items more then 20years old. Knife sheath and a belt. Both worn while working construction. I've laid under vehicles in dry rocky dirt. Really scooted around on the ground. Everything took a beating and Saddle Lac is the ultimate. Even after 20years, you can still see the gloss shine.

That's something, someone will cherish.