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can't wait to see it!

Totally awesome, I'm going to have to see if I can pick one of those up! Thank you JJ

the gum tragacanth will keep the leather nice and smooth on the inside for your gerber, fibers in the leathers rough side won't fray up as easily and etc. The liner I used was just regular bandanna. a little thin for the job, the adhesive spray I used on it went through a little more than I would have liked.

if it were me I would throw fiebing's edge kote on there, along with "Gum Trangacanth" for the inside of the case if you're not going to line it. and get some leathercraft cement for gluing your case sides together (professional touch). you also mentioned rivets? not sure if you have them already but you'll need the proper length (size) and the specific tools to set the rivets. I'm personally a fan of lining my cases

I'm am SO SO glad to hear this, I just switched to Fiebing's from tandy's all-in-one.. and I'm not gonna lie it scared the crap outta me when I first used it. Seeing the red go on in the deepest bergundy I had ever seen was pretty intimidating

Xian does THE best leather seats that I have seen on the web. HANDS DOWN... stuff doesn't even look real I've actually known this guy for over a year, so he's not some estranged contact (I made him sound so in my original post.. oops) He was totally going for the "industrial look".. I think he would actually take your comment as a huge compliment... The angle is pretty bad in the shot, but that isn't the main shot for the product, the one above was only to show his new gloss black finish it came in . His place of work/business is actually called "The Barn", he thinks it clever to be putting out such high quality product in the setting shown, and I gotta say for it being 100% hand made by himself that I've always liked the whole idea (maybe it's a biker thing? I think riding motorcycles for sole transportation messes with our brains?) back to leather though.... I'm going to try daubing the red dye on "post-crease" and see what I get! Also thank you for the light box tip etc... I'm going to be looking that up for sure, because dang it would be nice to just take a picture in the garage! Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! I'll post pics in this thread, hopefully with some awesome detail, when it's done so you guys can see what I've been rambling about

cool, that's what I was guessing I would have to do, just wanted to find out if there might have been another tech. to keep the red away from my white cloth ;-P. Wasn't too too worried about difference in shades but rather having a huge contrasted strip going down the crease (which in all honesty is better than pink), but on all other colors I wouldn't mind (adds character on stress points)... Could take a picture myself, but like they say good photos sell... and I don't have a fancy DLR camera (and photography skills), let alone $1000 to spend on one. below is a photo of one of his products, the resolution is unbelievable, and for this wallet anything less would be underrating.

Hey everyone, heard about these forums from a lot of friends down at my local Tandy. Gotta say I'm amazed by the amount of know-how and years of experience here. It's a priviledge to be a new member (also while starting up my own business currently). I'm making a wallet for a motorcycle customization shop in Britain, and am wanting to do this right considering the contacts he has across the pond. Doing the job for free with the demand that he takes some High Res. pics of the wallet for my web site. Problem is though I'm dyeing the wallet with Fiebing's Red, and as I was messing around with the dye seeing how it would act on the final product I went to fold it and on the crease the dye stretched with the leather and turned pink. Is there a certain technique I can use to prevent this from happening? I'm sewing in a liner that is checkerboard, SO I'm assuming I have to take care of the "dye problem" before the liner is sewn in? maybe not and I'll just have to be super careful while dyeing it again on the crease? Hope this all makes sense. Thanks! & Merry Christmas everyone! God bless.