morjena

Thank you, Tramp. How can I stitch canvas to leather? It seems like it would be hard to penetrate with a needle and maybe fray...?

Hi y’all, I’m new to Leatherworker and to leatherworking and I’m seeking some advice on my first major leather project. I’m a cook and I’ve been slowly making a knife bag/roll for myself. Below are pictures to show the design. Pretty rustic, but functional for my needs, I think. It is soft goat leather (that I had tanned from a friend’s goat, by the way) and I have done all the stitching by hand. My technique is to mark even stitch points, punch through them with an awl, and follow with a saddle stitch, through the whole bag from outside in. I am at the point where I am beginning to think about attaching straps, both the main shoulder strap and the cinching buckle straps. There is also a model picture below giving a rough idea of what I have been thinking. I just need help with the minutiae of the execution. Here are the main issues I am looking at: - What do I use for straps and how do I “build” them? Can I use cloth/canvas? I’d like to. - Where on the bag do I attach them? Positioned near the “tail” end of the bag, the outside flap? And then, I had been thinking of doing it in the buffer space between the knife slots, and just going straight through from the outside of the roll. - What should I use to attach them? I had planned on stitching them, but maybe rivets…? - What kind of hardware should I use and where do I get good stuff? Buckles for the “cinching” straps and trigger snaps for the shoulder strap, maybe? - Anything else I have not thought of… Any and all advice would be much appreciated!