JohnnyQ

Thanks for your input. It seems it may be best to just buy a large chunk of the leather and then actually wrap it around the bars, especially paying attention to the bends, and make my calculations from that. This is all in my spare time, so it may take a while.

Hi all, I'm going to make some leather crash bar covers. Has anyone else tried that? Seems fairly straightforward, but as usual, I discover some new things, like the thickness of the leather can throw off your initial measurements. Now, before I buy the leather and cut my pieces and possibly waste leather, I have a question: do I have to compensate somehow on the bends, making it wider for example, or will it all just cinch up tightly and follow the contours as I lace it up? Thanks