stitchwizzard

Today I made a leather patch for a custom Guitar strap. Engraved .015 deep then Acrylic filled. Stitch~

I saw a couple of nice guitar pick case's here and thought I'd come up with a style to use up scraps. A nice way to use up the scrap and some spare time too! Thanks for looking. Stitch.

Hmmm... I see your point. Sure wish that I were still able to do hand tooling. But, I made the choice to not lay down and quit. All of my tooling is farmed out to old masters like yourself whom I pay damn good money to tool leather for me. I bet they are grateful for me increasing my sales. So the fact that I have old school tooled leather for many years dosen't count even though I cannot do hand tooling anymore due to my disability? I was really excited to try this new technology as it enhances what I can now offer. And... This job was not "cheap" by any stretch of the imagination. I feel like the first people that wore glasses to overcome their disability and were chastized by people with perfect vision for interfering with natures way. I see the future maybe a little clearer now and will continue to use this technology to increase my sale of custom made items. The way this has "effected" me, is to offer an enhanced product for my customer with precision and quality that I could never do even with my many years of experience. Adding old school hand work with this technology will be my method of choice from now on. Offering my customers more for their hard earned money. They will be the ones that ultimately decide if they like it or not. And that's what it's all about really. I charge a pretty good price for my work and have alot of repeat business. Wayout watty seemed to hit it right on the head. I've heard this same argument from "Purists" with every advancement in technology to come down the pike in my years. However, I do appreciate your comments and thought process. We used to call it "sorting the Wheat from the Chaff". Let's agree to disagree. Try not to confuse advancement with detriment, I never made a "mass produced" item in my life, don't plan to either. Just quality custom work as always, only better. But I see where you are coming from... and I see where I am going. Peace! Stitch

The latest, These were CAD designed and laser cut from Wicket & Craig English briddle leather. The customer wanted a winged design in Burgandy with no tooling, so this is what my friends with the laser machine came up with. I really enjoy making the custom ones even though these required no tooling or stitching, my customer absolutely loved them! My friends at Black River Laser in Ohio did an outstanding job on these. Thanks for looking! Stitch

Hey thank you! The shop that made my stencil templates doesn't make them often, usually on request as their business is geared towards Veteran's memorial items. I just happened to mention that how nice it would be to have custom laser cut templates for my dad's knife sheath and they made both sets of them for me for a song! Nice people. I'm not sure if I can post their website here though without violating any rules. Sorry!

Thank you! I tried to upload bigger pic's but I was having trouble trying to get them up. I used Wicket and Craig leather for the sheath's and what super nice quality it is!

Here are two new knife sheath's I've recently made. The small drop point is is one of several I've bought from Ebay. It's an Mtech drop point style hunter and is a really good knife for the money. The supplied sheath was useless so I made new ones to fit them for gifts. The second is my Dad's Camillus M2 fighting knife that needed a sheath. It was a great break to be able to use the original style sheath template, I had them custom made in by a laser shop in ohio. They both fit like gloves!

Hey! Thank you Mike. It was driving me crazy trying to find these!

I sure would like to find a source for these tabs. Anyone have any idea?? Thank you in advance, Stitch W.