thefanninator

If you can't modify it due to the intergrity of the vinyl, offer to make a new for full price and if you think it's possible to re-sell the first one - charge him a 25% re-stocking fee. Other than that I agree with the above.

I'll be working on mine this week. It may not fully close. As in the other challenges feel free to alter to your taste.

I ended up unstitching, cutting up and restitching to make a clutch.

Ccastle27, Hear anything else? Have you contacted them since? Wondering when the website will be back up...

Post #134 by Seanafk from Fine Leatherworking might answer your questions if you missed it. Rocky Mountain Leather Supply is carrying it now too, same price. http://www.rmleathersupply.com/products/electric-edging-tool You can always get a quote from Mando in Paris: http://mando.fr/fr/17-fileteuse-manuelle

What part? I've gone over it in my head a few times.

Yes & yes.

tboyce's Drawstring Backpack is the pattern for March. Have fun! http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=59327

Bump for the March Challenge.

Nice work everyone. Thanks for participating. Hope you're learning. I'll post the March Challenge tomorrow in a new thread @ 9 am CST.

Thanks Cardinal! I'm really glad I did the pocket and folded the edge.

Thanks, on the pocket. Yep, on the closure. Yep, on the stitching. For some reason I can't see anyone buying it so I'll probably unstitch it again, trim it and make it smaller or a clutch.

Mine is about as done as it's going to get. I plan on painting the edges but don't have dark brown right now. Overall I'm pretty satisfied but have a few sore spots. I used Spanish Glass calfskin in espresso 2.5/3 oz lined with terra cotta Sokoto goatskin (both the same as my vertical wallet). I used chocolate Crawford linen thread from Royalwood. I think my stitching would have turned out better had I used my smaller Fil au Chinois Lin Cable. I decided on a Tom Browne stud closure which, with this thin calfskin, was a bad decision. I also punched two closure holes and regretted the second almost immediately but it does close a little tighter. I'm glad I went back and lined it and added an interior pocket which I have never done. I stitched the pocket to the liner then glued it in and trimmed the excess.

You can buy it in the US now. http://www.fineleatherworking.com/leather-electric-creaser

My 2/3 oz calfskin turned out a little too thin. A goatskin liner helped stiffen it up. I'll be posting pics in a day or two in the February Keep Making Stuff Challenge.

Well that's a bummer. Sometimes you can clean up some of the glue but you never can uncut leather. I'll save all of you some trouble and tell you my tale. I decided to stitch this project inside out which worked fine but the leather was, as I said too thin to hold it's shape. I took it apart and added a goatskin liner. Well of course the pricking marks were covered up by the goatskin except on the finished side but because I originally stitched it inside out the marks were backwards. Anyway after trying several different configurations - what was best was to turn the folds out, glue goatskin to goatskin and stitch it normal. I'm not sure what you call the gusset style of the original pattern - the way they fold in but I did it opposite. It's almost ready to photograph, which is something else I need to work on.

The ivory inlay is a great idea. I'll have to mark a dot on my awl. Your work looks great as usual and the ostrich looks awesome. Can't wait to see what you make with it.

Lined it with goatskin, added a pocket. Hope to stitch it all back together tomorrow.

Cool, I like how you left some space untooled. Looks like you got a little messy with the glue inside... Good job, thanks for playing.

Yeah, I thought about just posting the photos to show that I completed the month's project and then taking it apart to make something else... I'm pretty much out of alligator. The one I had was pretty small.

I went ahead and put a Sam Browne stud closure on mine, took some lousy photos and the whole thing is just mush. It doesn't hold it's shape and is hard to close. I'm currently unstitching it and will line it to stiffen it a up a little more. Hope I don't waste the goatskin lining.

Nice work. Are you still in the neighborhood?

Nice job. You didn't glue the rolled handles before stitching?

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Cool, thanks. We'll see how the guy likes it. I may end up redoing the belt loop later on.