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Thanks for the link. Yeah, I stumbled upon that thread before I became a member, been studying it ever since. Pretty informative. It's the actual material/leather that i'm not a 100% with. Don't know which are just tanned, dyed, veg tanned at such. The leather supply store I go to doesn't always have informed staff at hand. I'm just winging it at the moment... buying scrap leather for practice.

Thanks! That cleared things up. I'm just getting the hang of the molding process... trial and error and stuff. Thanks again! Yeah... I'm having trouble with fingernail marks.

Or was stitched with really looooong pieces of thread... hehe

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. So anything that has been "dyed" (colored) is a no-no? What's the difference between tanned and dyed? I honestly do not know what type of leather I have... but it did respond well to "wetting" and air drying. It held it's shape. So am I safe in assuming that it's "workable"? and moldable?

Thanks for the info. Though I'm not from there... I'm in Manila, Philippines. I tried stiffening up the 2.2mm that I got... it did stiffen up quite a bit, I'm considering it a successful attempt. As the thinner one (1.5mm) I got earlier did not. How do I know if the leather is ready to be molded? And once ready how easily should the leather conform to the mold? The description: "clay-like" is pretty vague... clay, as I know it, is easily shaped. Is this also the case with leather? Thanks!

Hi, I'm a craftsman at heart, i've sculpted and scratchbuilt a lot of mixed media stuff including resin and fiberglass... and yet I find myself being drawn to leather... there's just something about leather that other media simply cannot "achieve" (if that makes sense...) Anyway, I'm just starting to get to know the material. I've tried my hand at stitching. I want to get into wet modling. But the thing is, I don't know what types if leather there are. Can all things "leather" be wet molded? I tried boiling/drying 1.5mm leather but doesn't seem to want to stiffen up. Then I chanced upon info that says I have to have at least 5 or 6 oz leather to successfully wet mold. So i bought a few scraps of 2.2mm leather (5-6oz?). Will try boiling those later. I guess what I would really like to know is this: is THICKNESS the only factor with wet moldable leather? The leather supply store I went to has "tooling" leather... but I have to buy the entire hide... I'm not ready just yet. What's the difference between "tooling" and other types of leather? Thanks I attached a few test stitches... I'm enjoying the process.