MonicaJacobson

Really cute bag! All of your projects are amazing!

$400 sounds about right to me for a fully lined, nicely dyed, and very well sewn satchel. I might even charge more if I put in some nice pockets. I've only sold a couple of larger things, so I'm not very experienced when it comes to pricing, but I do know that you can give stuff away all day long, no problem! But if you underprice it to be nice, the person who buys it will always think of it as inferior. You don't want to sell it as a fashion accessory, those are meant to be thrown away in a year. You want to sell it as a tool, and tools cost money. Not that I'm very good at putting all that into practice... Love the satchel!

I like the art work a lot, but I do agree that slowing down your tooling will help you out. Just know that it takes an extra few hours and don't rush through it. You've got a cool product that really has a medieval feel.

Wow, that looks extremely nice and extremely work intensive. It would take me forever. Cool!

NICE.

Thanks!

My three year old son found a piece of leather down and thought it would be wonderful to do some real leatherworking. He dyed it in patches with this teal green dye, so I had to get creative with dye colors. A small belt for my young sister-in-law.

As my son said, when he looked over my shoulder, "I don't know what to say because it's so beautiful." Heh heh. Really, REALLY nice. I want it. Did you take progress pictures?

Wow, really nice.

Nice! I wouldn't mind having one of those myself.

I used 60 lb Hammermill paper that I got on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0017LP1IM/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) . 80 weight would be awesome. Are you going to go the serious book binding route? I'll be interested to see your modifications, if you post them!

Thanks for the kind words!

Cool, I really like the one you made for the serviceman. Bummer about his name on it.

Just finished this for a customer. 9 oz tooled leather journal. 9 x 12 " - it's huge and it weighs almost five pounds. Fun project! I decided I hated cutting paper so much that I offered to make it bigger (free of charge) than the original 8x8 that he wanted. Fox on the front, aspen trees on the back.

Wow, this is a gorgeous bag. One of my favorites I've seen. I love the original way you put it together.

Nice! Thanks for the tip! That sounds much easier.

I really like the idea. I have tried something similar, but I've tried to sew them on, rather than inlay them. I saw your other one in the gallery, and it was very nice, too. Anyway, I like your idea and your bag.

Did you do the carving as well?

I absolutely love this bag. Very professional, and I like that it's leather, but it looks kind of like a canvas and leather bag as well. I like the contrast.

Nice! I like the leather, too.

A customer liked the sewn chrome tanned bag, but wanted it in backpack form. I sewed it up over the last couple of weeks. In retrospect, I should have charged an extra hundred for the straps alone, but ah well. I've never made sewn straps, and now I know exactly how much work it is.

I'll be interested to see how the bag feet at the corners work. I haven't tried that yet. Thanks, Vhakra and Firdaus! My brother started a messenger bag this time last year when he came to visit us. At Thanksgiving I rescued it from him and brought it home to finish. It seemed like a shame for it to sit half-finished! Especially as it's that lovely oil-tanned leather.

Bigorange, I saw other conversations on this forum swearing that if you break a stitch when you use needles and saddle stitch, it will be broken but it won't unravel. They also thought that a lock-stitch with a sewing awl would unravel immediately all the way along the seam. Now, I haven't tried saddle stitch and needles yet (though I've bought the stuff), but I absolutely know for sure that the sewing from the lock stitch won't unravel as soon as it is cut. I had to take some out, and I ended up having to cut every stitch and wrestle the thread out. At least with veg tanned leather, lock stitch seems to be very sturdy. However, that said, I'm still inclined to switch to saddle stitch, since it seems to be what everybody uses. CJDevito, Cool! I was curious about what it would look like in chrome tanned. Of course, the original CK is chrome tanned, but I think it's the oilskin (or whatever) that practically stands up by itself. I'll be curious to see what you change on the next go around!

Sweet! I'm going today.

Well that's ridiculously cool...