Fire88

Your site seems to be down, not sure if you are aware. I have used a couple of your patterns with modifications here and there and they have all come out great even for a newb!

Thanks was a good learning experience! Might be a bit on the thick side though. Heres the square end

It’s made out of 8/9oz with a 5/6 liner and stiffener.

Because I liked the way the black one came out decided to do another one different weave stamp and it’ll get dyed brown

Looks quite dandy to me!

@superpacker You made me do it and this is my first belt, 8/9 backed by 5/6 with a stifener in it.

I just built my new table and picked up a 1/4” sheet of hdpe from my local menards. So far I’m really happy with much better than my commercial cutting mat, knives slide better and easier to cut rounded corners.

8 or 4 makes sense, I’d stack the boxes the way I wanted them to sit take my measurements from the stack add for the outside miter.

That is really nice and thanks for the history lesson!

Thank you

New wallet and money clip

Decided I needed to carry my own work around instead of a store bought camo money clip and a kydex card carrier.

That is a serious wallet and makes my back hurt thinking about it in a back pocket. You pulled it off very well as it has a lot going on it one piece.

Beautiful work!

That’s a beautiful box

I added a 4x8 cut table last weekend with a 1/4 inch HDPE on top, need to get some concrete tubes for leather storage on the bottom left.

That looks awesome well done once again. Set it in front of a fan the airflow should help to dry it out, another option is to build a hot box (bulb inside of a box, I would put a divider in it to keep direct light off it). I use the fan method all the time for speeding up dye and finish.

Very nice work

Great work, I hope they bring Great money at the auction as they should!

You could adjust the top foot pressure or rub your stitch line with a bone folder or tap it with a flat faced hammer.

Both pieces look good

@robs456 I guess my point in the comparison was I could have use ads and hand planes and spoke spoke shaves and hand drills to build my furniture, yet I decided to use tools to speed up the process. If I built it for a customer and used the old ways I would never see an hourly wage I could live on. I think there is a difference in marketing a handmade vs handmade and stitched item. I don’t think either is wrong and if you can get the same price of a machine stitched piece as a hand stitched one then good on you cause you’ve built your brand well. We see it everyday and don’t realize it that a mass produced item costs the same as a hand built one. My example here is kitchen cabinets I can give you a custom built kitchen for close to the same price as any commercial cabinet store yet give you a better product and design. While I'm still new to the leather world and learning a ton especially on pricing items, I truly appreciate these conversations.

Both look good

This is an interesting conversation. So I just finished a sketchbook cover all pieces cut out with a round knife including the stiffener, glue applied by hand, hands pressed the pieces of leather tiger to get them to stick and keep wrinkles out, clips were used to hold the edges together and aligned till glue set, stitched on my 3200 and leather trimmed by hand. I’d say that’s handmade. I used to build cabinets and built my bedroom furniture, ordered wood in the rough flattened it(joiners) ripped it to rough width(table saw) planed it to thickness (planner) ripped it down again, planned it to final thickness, cut it with miter saw, used a router to give all edges a rolled edge, sanded the majority with a palm sander. Those pieces still aren’t perfect as my hands ran the tools, but you better believe I consider them handmade as my hands fed them through every machine and we’re on them through the whole process. Back to leather working how many machines does it take to get the hide from the animal to your cutting table? None of us are killing the animal, skinning it and tanning it ourselves that I know of.

12 boxes of shotgun shells is gonna be quite heavy on the shoulder to carry.