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nice work and neat design. What is the thread and SPI that you used there?

Here's a wallet I made last week for my girlfriend. She loves purple . The leather is 3/4oz chrome tanned from Tandy. Thread is .020" lilac waxed polycord from Maine Thread. Stitching is 8SPI and made with the GoodsJapan European pricking iron. It was a lot of guesswork as I had no pattern...and a lot of stitching! But I'm pretty happy with how it came out.

That's really cool! I have made my own punches out of sockets before, but this looks way easier and cleaner. How long do those hold an edge? What kind of conduit works best? To the OP, you can try the hole saw but I have some concerns about how clean the edge might be. If it's 2" diameter though it will be big enough for you to clean it up with some sandpaper and burnishing.

I agree with the previous posters that it's best to plan for the particular SPI you will be using when you make your pattern. That being said, if I'm just putting something together quickly I usually don't . To improvise on the fly, Twin Oaks's method is correct. Another thing that will help is that I never go all the one from one corner to another if I'm not sure my stitching will fit perfectly. So start on one side, work almost to the middle, then move over to the other side and work towards the middle. That way, you know your corners are going to be perfect and you can figure out where to split the difference in the middle where it doesn't matter as much.