robbied
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Watch strap
robbied replied to Johny198's topic in Purses, Wallets, Belts and Miscellaneous Pocket Items
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This was based on an image I saw somewhere online. Veg tanned leather with saddle tan dye and mahogany antique paste. Baseball stitched around the edges
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Can't go past the Pink Floyd one, some great imagery there! Now where's my guitar....
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This process is known as 'milling'. I've used this to great effect on veg tanned metalwork aprons, to give them some pliability, as they are useless when stiff as a board. The commercially milled leather is as soft as fabric, but mostly that would be too soft. Nicely explained too.
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Dye, hide rejuvinator (a couple of massages in) then resolene. The rejuvinator seems to soften it nicely without the greasiness of neats foot oil. The resolene goes well over the top of that.
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Nice work on the tooling. The design overall is simple, elegant and functional.
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Consider my jaw... dropped. That is a brilliant execution. I know this topic is a couple of months on, but would you mind posting the underside? I'm about to plunge into strap making, and want to know if you folded the pigskin under the veg or just stuck it flat and left the cut edge exposed.
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Another vote for inkscape here. Use it for almost everything.
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Agreed, this is what my leather guy told me to do when I bought 1 litre tin of barge.
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I knot and burn all the ends of my threads. I'm pretty sure my local leather guy does too.
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I've been asked to make one of these for a fellow leather crafter, I'd make the bevel a little longer. They almost look like a Kiridashi in appearance.
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You're totally right about the number of variables involved. I've had knife sheaths take anywhere from an hour to stitch, to about 3 hours (like I think this one did). I use an overstitch wheel to mark my holes and then straight to the horse, all hand awled and stiched with saddle needles and 1 mm polyester thread.
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All I know is it takes me a lot longer to punch and stitch 5 layers of 8 than it does for my usual 3 layers. The end result works though.
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Heavy cotton canvas looks good if you suspect it will have a lot of abuse. Otherwise a thin leather such as pig skin would be sufficient. I think given the style, a nice patterned cotton canvas would suit the style you have going on already.
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I'm going to use some soft surface chrome tanned, about 3/32 or so thick. I picked up a full hide from an estate sale. I think the best way to do the stitching marks would be to use the custom dash pattern. You can customise the pattern using the XML editor. I haven't had much of a chance to play with it this morning, but you should be able to get exactly what you want in there. Hope it helps.
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Everything starts with a box. Convert to curves. Add, subtract, shape the nodes as you need to. I've had a lot of experience, but I wouldn't say what I did was complicated. It did take a while to do though. I find the more you play, the more you learn.
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Thanks for the compliment. I used a free vector based drawing program called Inkscape. It's multi-platform and quite easy to use. Similar to Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator. You can even import PDFs and make changes (as long as the pdf was saved in vector and not a bitmap).
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My mentor's apron is over 20 years old, and it looks it. As I recently acquired a bulk amount of leather, I offered to make him a brand new one, based on his old one. This pattern is the result. The print size is A3, but all the dimensions are there to mark it out full size. Apron sized for print.pdf
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If I knew the principles of making a saddle I would
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This is what i'm using. Not my construction or design, but works pretty well. The thing I would change is to add a foot rest on the left side, and a more comfortable seat.
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That's pretty nice. I currently have use of a stitching horse. Similar shaped jaws but set on top of a saw horse with a flat piece along it for somewhere to sit. it also has a foot operated mechanism consisting of a bar on a door hinge, that pulls on some webbing material attached to the pivoting jaw. I can post pics if anyone is interested.
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I to am a wax subscriber, a little off the thread and the grip on the needles is much better. Pliers definitely save the day when backstitching.
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Very nice! As someone who's only just made a couple of them myself, I can understand the satisfaction of making something like this. I like the colour too. Did you use a two piece form or one piece and clamps/pins etc?