JeffH837

After leather balm and a good buff with horsehair brush

Recently been experimenting with darkening my leather for a wallet build without dying it as I much prefer the bare natural look just tanned a little darker than it comes from the tannery. So I oil it with neatsfoot oil then lay it in direct sunlight for a day and bring it inside clean any dust off and then apply smiths leather balm to even out any uneven color from neatsfoot oil application and set it back out in the sun for another day or two until I get desired color of leather. Today I put a final coat of smiths on and it now looks almost like bridal leather and has a waxy sheen to it which I’m really loving so far. Can’t wait to see how it comes out when I build a wallet with this for the main body and either some h.o that I burnished the grain to a glazed finish or some nice tan dyed 2/3 oz veg tan tooling calf skin.

Leather wranglers also has a tutorial where they say to put a secondary bevel of 35 degrees on their blades but the main bevel angle is generally a 30 degree on each side of the blade. All depends on how you like to run your blade. Hope this helps have a great day.

This is absolutely AMAZING!!!! You are very talented. I love this embossing and carving work you did!!!

Beautiful sheath great work. I hope to be there someday. Need to expand my skills and get into the construction side of the hobby and not just carving and tooling. Have a great day!

Wow that is very nice I love the color fade and geometric pattern it all came together perfect! Great work!!!! And yes the branding gives it added character for sure, I’ve been strictly carving and tooling so far in my leather craft journey but I’m planning on making some wallets for a couple family members for Xmas and I hope they turn out even half as good as yours.