crazytailorlady

Hey guys, I thought someone might help me ID this peculiar leather. This leather is light beige to gray in color and it only darkens slightly when oil or grease is applied. It sometimes has a green shade. Does not blacken with vinegaroon. I find it lots on harnesses, it is used for thick straps, it is very bendy and even 20 year old pieces barely cracked. Shown piece is from a girth.

Wow!

That is a huge amount of work but wow the results look fantastic. You've made yourself some real quality tools.

I use scraps all the time, often when I need to add thickness or for a small patch or padding. Recently I've obtained this kinda thin vegtan from a scrap bag mice ate through partially and I used it as support on a horse harness piece. Never throw anything away lol

This is your first project? It looks amazing! I love how neat it is and the color scheme is lovely.

Thanks for all the encouragment. It is very inspiring for further work, appreciate it lots.

Thanks and sadly no, I didn't take any

Thank you! I'm glad to hear that.

Beautiful, both the halter and the horse.

This is my helper and quality control. She spends the work hours perched on my shoulder and occasionaly plays with thread.

Figured it out, here are the photos included.

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Hey guys, I've been working hard on this the last few days and pretty satisfied with how it looks. I've never made a knife sheath before, this one is for a foldable knife (sorry for no pics) that I bought for my sister's upcoming 16th birthday and I wanted to make her a sheath to compliment it. Thick vegtan leather was light brown but I used homemade vinegaroon to blacken it. Stamped by homemade stamps, a little rough but hey a girl must start somewhere lol. I could have done this simpler but I wanted to go all out, it being for a special occasion and all. Edit: idk what went wrong with image upload image%3A8858

When I tested my batch after only a few hours it gave me a light gray color on some light tan leather. I suppose that if I took our the wool then it would have kept the graying effect.

Thanks! And ok, I'll use water instead of soda next time, seems like a better idea.

Yup, definitely noted that. I'll be making lots of 'roon for my project(s) so there's ny chance to experiment. The fun part of this was: I was cutting some old leather before using the dye and I had a ton of fine leather dust on my hands. Guess what happened when some 'roon got on those hands...

Update guys! I bought white vinegar but every hardware store somehow went out of stock for steel wool so, improvisation time. I took a rust brush and scraped the life out of a dishwashing woolie. Then I cut it into tiny pieces using scissors. I also got some pieces of an iron nail (removed the rust). I left all of that covered in vinegar in a glass jar. In a few hours there were bubbles everywhere. I mixed it a bit. In 12 hours I had 'roon of moderate strenght, in 2 days it blackens amazing. I'm working on a project right now so I'll post images when its done. A great thanks for all of the help! P.S. I neutralized blackened leather by soaking it in a sodium hydrogen bicarbonate solution. Color holds.

That's a good one but I would like this sheath to have a cover from the top. That's why I'd rather keep the strap. Interesting, thanks, I'll consider this method.

Perfect, just what I needed! Thank you

Good morning everyone, I am making a sheath for a foldable knife. This is my first attempt and I've been doing research and noticed that the most common way of securing the flap that closes the sheath is by using a snap. Now, I don't have these available and I don't know how to install them so is there a way to acomplish quick (relatively) closing and release with another method?

Love the herringbone

Beautiful work!

Wow! I especially love the handles. Impressive work, much respect.

Thanks everyone! I'll try with different wool and use white vinegar instead.

Hey everyone, I found a vinegaroon recipe here: https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/73637-my-guide-to-the-best-vinegaroon-youve-ever-made/#comment-482966 after it was recomended to me as a natural dye. Here is what I did: I bought steel wool for dishwashing from a local store. I had lots of red wine vinegar (6 percent acid). I took a glass jar and put the wool in an then submerged the wool in it. I left it like that for a day and then I tried it on some vegtan leather I had laying around. Nothing happened. I left it for another day and same thing, no blacking. There were bubbles in the solutiob once and I very carefully stirred them away but that was only a few hours after the wool had been sitting there. Now in the recipe it says that the full strenght is reached in twelve hours but mine does nothing after two days. Did I use wrong kind of vinegar or maybe there is something wrong with the wool? Thanks in advance!