All4Christ

What a big difference lacing and stitching make. They all look really good, I'm drawn to the lacing on the drum dyed one. That's a very tough looking wallet. Good work.

Awesome concept with the basket weave. And the cross looks like real wood. Great job. The artist should be very happy.

Cyberthrasher You were right. I followed your advice and it came out fine. I'll post pictures ASAP. Thank you for the advice guys.

I like it! The stitching is so straight. Everything looks very uniform. Did you hand stitch it?

I just realized that if I don't skive down the skin side of the tooling leather ill end up with part of the leather being 6oz leather with very thin embossed leather hanging off of it unless I back it with some thinner leather. That sounds like way more work than its worth. To add the leather I'm using is a embossed split about 2oz in weight with the 6-7 oz single shoulder for tooling.

I'm also going to add a few small domed rivets down the one side of the seam for looks. I think when I try the next attempt I spoke of above it could strengthen the job.

Thank you for the response. I did attempt to skive down the embossed croc leather. It is already very thin and very tricky as it has almost no flesh to it. I don't know if it advisable to skive down the skin side or skive down the flesh side of the tooling leather. I'm thinking of doing the latter and wetting the embossed leather and form a lip edge down flat and attempt your suggestion. I did one book cover and simply glued it down on top of the tooled leather after skiving the edge very carefully. It is so thin. I'm not too happy with the lip it has above the skin of the tooled leather. I will be stitching it next as well. Soon as I do that I'll post picks. I've never worked with exotic leathers but I like the look so I decided to try the fake embossed leather first. I'm sure they are two different animals. Haha. I just don't want to have that edge peel up in front of the stiching over time.

Nice design. I've never seen one.

I don't know much about it but for practice pieces those look pretty good.

Ok thank you for your help. This will be my first of this kind of project. I'll be sure to credit your help.

I want to attempt to make bible slip cover. I envision in my mind a one quarter veg tanned leather spine that I will tool as well as put in false raised cords and the rest use the embossed croc leather.

I've exhausted the search for tips on how this is done. What I would like to do is splice a piece of tooled leather with a piece of embossed leather that looks like alligator. I don't want to practice on the real deal yet. Should the pieces be skived down to match thickness and then sew each piece separately? What about rivets? Any videos, tips, tutorials, or books to refer to are welcome.

Very nice! That looked like a lot of joy to make. I'm glad it came out so well. The contrasting leather color really makes it pop. I like that.

Yes I also like the beveling. Very nice. Looking forward to the finished work.

WHOA!

I love to see your work! Is that a rod of some type for the clasp belt?

I don't mind posting them up for you. They are very nice. I'd love to see a breakdown on how one goes about crafting with this type of hide.

Perfection!