MonicaJacobson

Nice!

Those are great, I especially like the first one with the shield sewn on. Super classy. Also, the natural colored groove accent is a cool touch. You'd need a steady hand, for sure.

Very nice, I like all of them!

I'll have to try that.

Thanks for posting the story!

Cool sheath, Chris!

Wow, I love both of them. Thanks for showing pictures!

Yaaay, Karina! It's because I'm actually in Atlanta, right? You know, potentially, that I actually could chase you down.

Karina, thanks for the very clear how-to!!

Nice job, TRH, I like the stiffer leather choice. Thanks for posting pictures!

Sweet bag!!

Nice belt. You are not underpricing it at all. Like Bob said, you really need more than 2 items in your shop. I'd give Rohn's advice a try and put it on ebay. You may not sell it at once, but you'll only lose a dollar or two listing it, and you might get a more cowboyish audience there. That said, there are a lot of people on here who sell that kind of tooling on etsy, and they seem to do all right. However, the higher my items price (for example), the longer it takes me to sell them. Maybe etsy just isn't the right place. I haven't even tried Ebay. However, I usually don't care how long it takes. Sometimes, if it wasn't my best idea, it takes a year, but things usually sell in the end.

Nice stuff, Ian. I like your airbrush job on the passport wallet. I agree with Matt, I like your logo.

Nice one, Darren!

NP - I am an internet junky, so I always reply right away. What you need is this: (I found it on pinterest) Too bad you live in the UK - Springfield has several lime leathers, in both suede and normal that they sell by the square foot in their bag and chap leathers: http://springfieldleather.com/18229/Hide%2CMiracleUphlstry%2CLime/ Check out Maverick Leather company: http://www.maverickleathercompany.com/ They might be inexpensive enough to justify sending it overseas. They're great to work with, and they certainly have reds, though I haven't seen a lime. Saddle stitching is actually easier on a bag, because there are so many stitches it doesn't matter if you mess one or two up. However, what you are doing works, no need to change it. Sorry, I'm absolutely clueless on making clutches. Maybe check youtube? You could make it out of veg tanned and mold the veg tanned. It gets almost as hard as wood. However, it's hard to control dyes. You'd have to experiment to get just the right shade. Mix green with yellow, and maybe dilute it with lacquer thinner. But if you dilute it too much, the brown will show through as the leather darkens. Maybe you could mold veg tanned and then cover it with lime? Probably way too convoluted. I'll keep an eye out on your blog to see what you end up doing. Mine's creeping along slowly... gotta' make a strap and then I'll post pictures of it. By the way, I love the new red and white geom bag with the red silk interior. I love the smaller triangles especially.

Did you take pictures of the final product?

Those are great!

Cool! Hey Tom, what happened to the bag you were making for the office Christmas party?

Cool, I like the tooling design.

Pretty awesome for just three months in. Keep up the good work!

Sweet! I'm tired of the sub-par ones I made in photoshop. I'm going to get my husband to laser cut them out of acrylic for me. Or.... maybe I'll just trace them out of a yogurt lid.

Coincidentally, I was just looking at this bag last night, and regretfully thinking I needed to buy a book to find out how the gusset was done.

Oh yes, definitely. it would look like this, right? Not my photo, obviously..

Tom, I've seen that (or something like that) on briefcases, and never gotten around to looking up how it was done. Or maybe it's not the same at all. Anyway, it's a great idea, and I'll definitely give it a try. Thanks a lot! (I agree on the arthritic pain - that method, combined with some other extenuating circumstances (like not using an awl, not using pliers when I should have, and over-using my wrists outside of leatherworking) gave me ten days of severe carpel tunnel pain where I couldn't sew at all. However, I think it's possible to work form the middle and go out and it's not completely terrible.)

Really amazing, one of my favorites to date.