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I was curious if anyone knew the name of the hardware on this leather piece (not the shackle). I have looked everywhere and tried buying different parts to try to make them. I have seen then on expensive items and also made cheaply. The ones I have tried purchasing are held in on the other side of the leather by screws. They don't seem to have a plate that is generally seen with bag hardware. The bag hardware I did try tends to have a thickness of the loop at maybe 6mm or so and shallow as to make it sort of hard to pass anything through it. I am looking for maybe a 3mm thickness in the metal itself.. I hope yall have some ideas, this is driving me crazy. Also does anyone have any tips for collar/cuff sizing? I would really like to start doing custom, but I have zero confidence. One of my measurements for a cuff was small and another was too large. I was taking actual measurement and adding 1/2 an inch. I am not sure which specifications to follow for leather collars. Also if anyone has tools for accurately measuring the sides of what is already made. I have a mandrel for bracelets. Not quite sure how to accurately do collars. Thanks!!

Thank you so much for the info. I also wondered the same thing about plastic, but it was only for a few days.

I am using leather that I bought from the same company in two different widths. I am using Royal Blue dye diluted 1:4 with denatured alcohol. Same amount of coats on both pieces. The smaller strap is the color I'm going for. Both deglazed before hand. I had some bad luck wetting the leather, neetsfoot, etc. So I just deglazed and dyed.applied both the same with a sponge or dauber. I noticed that on my rag there, it seems there is a bit of pink/red almost leeching out of the diluted dye. That would make sense because red + blue = purple. But why would that even happen anyway? The flesh side looking closer to the shade I was chasing. Does anyone have any insight to what could be going on here? I wasted so much leather chasing that perfect color. I had it mixed in a plastic disposable Tupperware type container. Thanks!!

It was the Tandy heavyweight strips. I've been trying to stay with the same brand tfor consistencies sake since I'm practicing a lot. Plus they're local. Thank you for your reply!

Very new here and I appreciate this forum, thanks for all the information! So I have done googling and searching here but I am not sure how to explain it, but.my leather has wrinkles after dying. I have attempted a few times all using different methods I read about. I am just experimenting at this point and trying to learn from mistakes which there are a lot of. I tried different variations of pretreating with neatsfoot, wetting before dying, full strength, cut, etc. But every time the results are wrinkly/creased/wavy. I am trying to figure out why this is happening. Thank you all for your help!

Hello, I am very new to leathercraft and have been taking in a lot of information and lurking for maybe 2 months. I have been doing my research on leather types, tempers, weights including how to stiffen or soften and doing a lot of experimenting. So I have bought a quite a bit of leather strap from 1/2 inch to 1/5. One of my favorite pieces I finally deduced after going through a lot of receipts and orders from various online companies, came from Tandy. 3/4 veg tan black strip, the heavyweight strip, and the economy veg strip. How the heck are they so different? I love the weight and stiffness of the black and I figured it was a national chain, so they would have certain standards to keep to. I already had the heavy weight strip, so I got the econ for comparisons sake. I feel like I am missing something important. I am using basically nothing but strip now and will it just be a crapshoot every time I order any? I mean wouldn't the only difference between the black and the other be the fact that is just dyed in the process? Is there anything I can do to get a more consistent strip? All of this trying to learn on my own is ending up with me having a giant stack of leather I'm never going to use. Thanks for any direction.