Yamel

Thanks everyone for the great responses! I got a slab of rubber coated steel from work which seems to do the job Happy to close this topic if that's a thing.

Hi Tom, Thanks for the tip! I've got some solid steel slabs at work that I might be able to borrow. Barring that I suppose looking for a tile store would be a good idea!

Hi all, I'm a student living in London, so tend to live in pretty small places. I used to have a concrete fireplace with tiles in my flat that I could use as work surface for punching holes on. Now that I've moved to a new apartment with wooden floors and no particularly solid surfaces anywhere, I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to do my punching... I bought this little metal anvil but that on the wood doesn't provide enough resistance to smoothly punch through the leather and makes a huge amount of noise... Any thoughts on what kind of makeshift work surface could help me out? I've seen people use granite slabs or something. Is that something that could work for me? I tend to work with 4mm leather, so need some serious punching power. Thanks for the help! Mark

Hi all, I'm pretty new to leathercraft, and have mostly been working with pre-dyed leather. Now that I want to get more into carving and making LARP / medieval-style armour, I got myself some 2mm and 4mm veg tan. However, I find it hard to tell, when looking around online, whether pieces are dyed by hand, painted, or the leather came pre-dyed. For example the piece attached (found on pinterest). Is the dark green the original colour of the leather? Or was it just a veg tan that was dyed green, yellow and black? And how would I go about doing that? Also, for future reference, how do I go about figuring out myself how a piece of dyed? I really appreciate any help on this!