Stetson912

Howdy all, been a while for me but I made this thing! My step moms birthday is coming up and she's mentioned she wanted a phone wallet. So I made one. I used 4)5 oz horween tumbled Essex in parisian blue and .8 green tiger thread. The card slots we're split down to 1 mm and it's lined with cotton fabric. I didn't do much with the edges because of the fabric. Next time I'll trim it short so I can do the edges better. Otherwise I'm pretty happy with it. Thanks for looking. All comments and critiques welcomed. Cheers!

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit! Looks great. I have no clue how to do zipper so, one up on me haha.

Nice. I wonder about scales falling g off tho. Is that an issue?

Looks nice. I like how u used the cobra head with that snake skin. Good idea. I've never used snake. Is it hard to work?

Another home run. Sexy wallet.

Looks good! I like your name ( it's mine too haha) not many Trenton out there. Keep it up

Looks good! I think a 9spi would look real nice. But that's a lot of stitching haha.

Way cool.

I like it

Yeah, garypl said he kept it flat so it wouldn't damage or dig into itself. I also may help keep the handle from stabbing the wearer in the back so to say.hehe. I will say you won't be able to hurt that sheath haha. How do you burnish that thick edge?

That's a chunky sheath. But it'll wear nicely. Looks good to me, and I'm not familiar with machine stitching. What spi did you use?

Seiwa chisels are a good beginning chisel set. I'm eying the crimson hides stitching chisels. They are very nice but you pay for it too. Go to Armitageleather.com and check out the review pages, or he has videos on seiwas as well. I thought he said the size of the prongs changed for the spacing but I can't remember

Good to hear.

@Wedgetail I'm a dad too, so them jokes come naturally hehe. Sorry to hear your wife is sick. That's no fun, makes things more challenging too.

Some might say it's "riveting"

Hmm that's a good question. I don't have an answer per say. I would think it depends on the shape and design aspects of the bag. Like for the gussets you have to take into consideration the thickness of the gusset leather for the inside dimension of the compartment. Same with liners and foam padding. That will build up thickness making the inner dimensions smaller than desired. Also, thicker leather doesn't fold or bend as easily so if you have anything like that (again the gussets maybe?) That needs to bend you'll have to add extra length unless you are going to v gouge it or something. I think you'll have to play with it and little bit. Maybe use some cardboard and duct tape to make a mock up for your pattern.a piece of corrugated cardboard is close to the right size of 8 oz leather I believe

I know both the laptop and PS4 are somewhat large. Getting both in one case would be challenging. The case will be very large but you could probably still make it small enough to be a good mobile game center. Sounds like a cool idea. A lot of stitching though haha.

Yeah. It looks very similar to his that's why I thought that. He has a free pattern on his site and the video shows how to do it up. I'm sure you could adapt the loops to fit whatever you like.

Nice. It reminds me of Nigel Armitage's shotgun slider. Did you use that for inspiration?

I agree with grumpy. Craft foam should be fine. You can find it fairly thin I believe 2 mm. Also there are rolls of sponge neoprene you can buy. But I'm not familiar with that product as much.

More of an educated trial and error technique haha. I was just curious. I'm sure if I sat down with a pencil n paper I could figure something out along those lines. I make my own patterns too when I do a holster. I just haven't made many so I'm still learning. Thanks for the insight!

Ahhh, thanks for that. I didn't think of binding. That's just a little bit important I would think haha. So how do you enlarge the front panel? And how do you know it's enough? I suppose you could trace half the back panel and shift it over a certain distance to trace the other half then just connect the two parts?

Color me daft but what is the difference between the curved pancake and a regular pancake? How is the curve accounted for in the pattern/design? I see the backside is curved to fit round the hip a bit better but doesn't a regular pancake do the same? Just wondering is all. I have limited experience haha.

Everyone can suggest products and you'll get a hundred different o es for the same thing. I think you'll just have to try some and find what works for you. I use neautral kiwi shoe wax sometimes. Other times o use resolene. But in this case you don't want to use resolene. And I'm unsure if the shoe polish had a uv blocker (though I think it does not). There is also Aussie leather conditioner and carnauba creme. I just say try one or two new products on a piece of scrap and see how u like it.

They also make a small drill press stand for dremels that you can buy. But, if you have a few clamps lying around there isn't anything keeping you from just clamping it to the table haha