Mattsbagger

If your smelling Deglazer you are killing some brain cells.lol That stuff is STRONG!

I find what works best for me is. In the curve i hold the divider mostly still and turn the leather.

On the pairing knife. If it's a angled blade style Lisa Sorrel has a tutorial in this month's leathercrafters magazine.

The main body looks like an oil tanned leather. I'm saying that because the carving is inset and they didn't burnish the edges. I'd go with Fiebings Tan or a light brown. This of course if you are using veg tan throughout the piece. The carving to me looks British Tan. The orangyness of it. Others may have better or different ideas.

Bang the can on the edge of your bench. (Side of can) It works. I don't know why. I've done it with most aerosol cans at some point.Ok to dent but don't puncture it.lol

Tandy has these also. Used on a bag worked well.

Look at Al Stohlman Art of making cases books. He has many pouches that you could adapt to your needs I think.

Packing tape, painters tape, rubber cement it to a piece of cardbord.

It was a finished leg already.

Thanks everyone. I really like the way this one turned out.

Every time I see your holsters I figure. Maybe I should just sell my blue guns. Lol

I have 3 stations. One by the window for airbrushing. (For ventilation) one across the room from it for other dye/finish processes. And one more for cutting,stamping,assembly. And it's all in a long narrow room off our bedroom. With an archway and no door. Started as a office/spare room with a futon. Oh yea it's also carpeted so I gotta be extra careful with dye.lol I started on the dining room table. In my mind I would have a room with more space and bigger tables. My big table is 3×5.

Chief has a video doing slings and one with guitar straps. That's his process. Front and back. It really does darken the leather when I tried it on a couple scrap pieces.

The ostrich is dark brown the rest is black.

Yep. I just posted this while out didn't have pics of inside. It's black on black. So cell phone pic don't look great.

You forgot the pics.lol

Another long wallet. Guy who bought one for his wife for Christmas decided he wanted one. 3oz W/C with Ostrich leg and lined in pigskin.

But it's the only way to learn.lol And then you can really see improvement. I have a couple really bad first projects on my work bench from when I started. It's motivation and shows how I'm improving.

Once the front is tooled and dried it shouldn't. UNLESS you use to much water or whatever you are burnishing with soaks through. I only burnish if it's fuzzy. I did nothing with the back side of this wallet because I liked the pattern the stamping left on the back side. It was also smooth and shows it's leather. IMHO some like to line everything. It's a matter of what look YOU want.

If you already got antique on it go ahead and cover the back with it. After it drys good put a little gum trag on it and burnish it. Carefully so you don't get the gum all over the front. Use a glass burnisher if you have one.

I will probby stop by Tandy tomorrow. I will look at the sticker on the Euro bends and see if they say. There Oak leaf and Craftsman grade usually say Argentina on the stickers in my Colorado Springs Tandy.

For this style I don't think you would need to drill it. Same with 3d stamps. Shrug. I don't have a press so everything gets whacked with a 2 lbs maul.lol

Leather Wranglers has a good video and so does Gmace also has a good video. He goes under UK Saddlery on YouTube. His Scottish accent can be thick sometimes but not as bad as my Daughter's boyfreinds.lol

Looks good. Is that a Chicago screw on the back side to mount the snap?

I handled some of his knives at Sheridan. Awesome. He had a table full on Friday on Sunday none.lol He said he sent one to Nigel Armitage and he reviewed it and know he can't hardly keep up.lol Nice guy to talk to but gotta remember a 1 man shop. Said doesn't have time to train anyone to help do stuff the way he want to.