Tooled Make Up Bag

[Tooled Make Up Bag]

[Ladies Travel Wallet]

Just finished this travel wallet for my sister in law. They live in Italy so they carry a passport most of the time. She wears a necklace with this knot on it and he has this knot tattooed on his arm. 

The ouside is 3/4 oz. Herman Oak and the inside is some .5 mm Kangaroo.  

[RFID wallet]

Thanks Fred  I already have some of the copper stuff. Thanks for the tip on the aluminum tape.

[RFID wallet]

Just curious if anybody is building RFID wallets. Do you need to line every pocket or do you just need a layer in between the outside cover and the lining on the outside so when you fold it there would be a layer on both sides of the cards. I know the RFID material can't be in contact with the cards or it will become an antenna.

Thanks for any input.

[Dopp Kit Cover]

Thanks.  This piece took 10 hrs to trace, cut and tool. I usually average about 1 hour per circle plus the fill in areas.

[Dopp Kit Cover]

Thanks  It's a Chuck Smith flower center with a Barry King center shader around it. 

[Dopp Kit Cover]

I tooled this piece to make myself a dopp kit but have gotten to lazy to finish it.  Still trying to find some soft chromium tanned leather to make the gusset out of.  I made one from some veg tanned leather and dyed it the same color but it was some cheap Tandy leather and it's pretty stiff.

[Seats and Door Panels]

It was for a job. I would love to have this vehicle. LS-1 motor with a Pro charger, overdrive trannny and Ford 9". Not all that big won it sitting on the ground but it's not mine.

[Seats and Door Panels]

 Tooled Seats and Door Panels. The headliner was Hair on hide from front to back. 

[Tooled Door Panels]

These are the door panels to match the tooled seats in the International Travel All. The car has to be in Houston on Feb. 21  so I should have some finished pictures of the seats and door panels in a couple of weeks. The section with arm rest will be hair on hide and the section with the wi9ndow crank will be walnut wood.

[Bolt Bags]

 Thanks for the comments. Embossing is when you push the image out from the back. Then you build a plug that fits in the image so it doesn't collapse. The plugs in the brown set are made of 6/7 oz. with another 6/7 oz.  on top of that for the hardhat and the another little strip on top of that for the brim of the hardhat.

[Bolt Bags]

Here's a couple of sets of bolt bags. They wanted durable. They are 6/7 oz. Hermann Oak with the top trim out of some cheaper Tandy 3/4 oz. because it seems to stay a little stiffer after I wet it to fold over the top.  The skulls in both sets are embossed.  They are lined with Flame Retardant Kevlar material. 

[Ironworker Bolt Bag]

Prototype for some bolt bags I'm getting ready to start making This one is unlined made out of 6/7 oz. Herman Oak and the light colored leather trim is some 3/4 oz. Tandy leather. I'm wanting to make them out of 4/5 oz. lined with some 2/3 oz.. Looking for something thin (canvas maybe) to line them with so the outside can be 6/7 oz.

[Tooled Wallet]

19 hours ago, JLSleather said:

Toolin' looks good, and I like the color choices.  Maybe git sumthin' under the presser foot to prevent them stitchy marks?  Pic too dark to tell, how'dya do the edges?

I was just looking at the presser foot and it was tilted to the back with just the back touching. Changed that presser foot right before sewing that guitar strap and this wallet. One of those ID10T errors.  Been using that machine for years and have never had that problem.  The edges are burnished using Glycerin soap, canvas and wax. I can't seem to get the Wyo Sheen to look good on the edges so I usually just put some Atom Wax on the edges when finished. 

[Tooled Wallet]

Thanks Gary, If your talking about the beveling around the tooling I use Barry King Bevelers then a spoon modeling tool one pass to smooth it up and then a ball point modeling tool to bevel the edge of the tooling so it doesn't look so flat and that also widens the beveling and smoothes it up more.

[Tooled Guitar Strap]

This strap is for my wife's brother and Christmas presents are suppose to be a surprise. So I couldn't make it custom fit. He'll just have to deal with it. I'll tell him I will make a new tail piece if it's to long.

[Tooled Wallet]

New wallet for myself. This one has Kangaroo for the inside. 

[Tooled Guitar Strap]

[New Work Boots]

Chappell Boots.url  It's called The Boot Book By C.T. Chappell.  940-995-2600  He's not there until noon  (CST)  If he doesn't answer you will just have to keep trying until he does. He's a great guy to deal with. 

C.T. Chappell Boot Shop and Seminars

 

 

[New Work Boots]

I wore those boots for 16 months. Carl Chappell said the veg tan vamps would crack quicker than the chrome tan vamps so not to use veg tan for vamps. The ankle area with tooling started breaking apart.  The first pair of slip on style boots with tooled uppers didn't do that in Those were the last pair of lace up boots I made but in January one of my buddies wants a pair of 12" tall lace up logger style boots. Probably all Kangaroo. 

Carl Chappell's book is pretty good. His shop is only about an hour from my house. I took a I day personal class from him and that pretty much answered all questions after buying his book.

Bespoke Shoemaking by Tim Skyrme is a good book too. It has information about design and patterning. 

[Landis 5 in 1]

Just finished putting my 5 in 1 back together. It was in pretty rough shape when I got it. $400 plus shipping off of Ebay. I have a new cutting wheel on the way and I sharpened the skiving blade myself. Completely disassembled cleaned and painted.  I am getting it to skive 1 1/4" on some sole leather. 

[Tooled Car Seats]

Here is some pictures of a drawing and the tooling. When I draw a pattern I try to make the background area as small as as possible. Then when I trace the pattern I draw outside the lines. Then after beveling and bar grounding the background areas still come out to big. The bar grounding and dying take a lot of time and the smaller the area the less work on pieces like this anyway. There is four of these. They are 2 bench seat covers going in a 71 International Harvester Travel All. The Logo was suppose to be tooled into the big piece but when I was laying it on top to see where we wanted to put it they asked if I could just sew that piece on top for some depth. Black outside with the Choc. Light Brown tooling. The basket weave border will be red with the I red and the H black. Not sure about the area around area around the IH.  

[Hummingbird Notebook]

Excellent job.  Like the geometric design on the back.

[Tooled Handbag]

Thanks Gary. Each side took about 7 hours. It usually takes a little over an hour per circle plus some time for the fill in areas. 

[Tooled Handbag]

My wife finally said something about a tooled handbag. This one matches everything she carries. The handles are from the old one she carried that I used as a starting point.