A couple purses

[battlemunky]

Well done! I would have maybe rounded the edges another size up but that is debatable if it would look better or just different. Is that your design? It looks great, both of them.

[doubleh]

Looks great to me but you might consider inside pockets. My wife, the shoe and purse lover, insists on pockets in her purses and considering all the stuff she packs around I can see why it would need to be separated to some extent.

[BlackDragon]

3 hours ago, battlemunky said:

Well done! I would have maybe rounded the edges another size up but that is debatable if it would look better or just different. Is that your design? It looks great, both of them.

Thanks, I saw a similar design on youtube and did a couple of changes.

1 hour ago, doubleh said:

Looks great to me but you might consider inside pockets. My wife, the shoe and purse lover, insists on pockets in her purses and considering all the stuff she packs around I can see why it would need to be separated to some extent.

It has an inside pocket, more like a sleeve, that is removable. I used chicago screws to attach it and It's big enough for a large cellphone. I made some other purses without pockets and boy did I get an ear full!

[JazzBass]

Good job!

You might consider skiving  the edges of the accent piece on the front, so there’s less of a ridge.

I like the red thread on the black bag. The “Batman” combo is a winner on lots of things. I found that using cream colored, or beige, works well when you want a bit less white, but it looks good as is.    

I also agree completely regarding oval holes, but they take a lot more care to get them straight. I found that if, instead of just trying to line up the tool, I’ll punch a hole through a small piece of poster board to use as a template. You place the template over your mark, and when it’s straight,  use hand pressure on the tool to mark the oval on the leather, then remove the template, re-index the tool, and punch through. The nice thing here is that you can see all the ovals in a line before punching, and make small adjustments if necessary, before punching them out  

Nice job!

[BlackDragon]

1 hour ago, JazzBass said:

Good job!

You might consider skiving  the edges of the accent piece on the front, so there’s less of a ridge.

I like the red thread on the black bag. The “Batman” combo is a winner on lots of things. I found that using cream colored, or beige, works well when you want a bit less white, but it looks good as is.    

I also agree completely regarding oval holes, but they take a lot more care to get them straight. I found that if, instead of just trying to line up the tool, I’ll punch a hole through a small piece of poster board to use as a template. You place the template over your mark, and when it’s straight,  use hand pressure on the tool to mark the oval on the leather, then remove the template, re-index the tool, and punch through. The nice thing here is that you can see all the ovals in a line before punching, and make small adjustments if necessary, before punching them out  

Nice job!

Thanks!

I was looking at oval punches and at this point I not sure which brand or sizes I should get. The cheap ones, well they're cheap but some of the expensive ones have bad reviews as to quality so I'm leary about pulling the trigger on them.

[Chipster99]

Super nice!

[toxo]

Nice job. Well done.

[BlackDragon]

13 hours ago, Chipster99 said:

Super nice!

 

13 hours ago, toxo said:

Nice job. Well done.

Thanks!

[fredk]

On 9/27/2022 at 12:55 AM, BlackDragon said:

Thanks!

I was looking at oval punches and at this point I not sure which brand or sizes I should get. The cheap ones, well they're cheap but some of the expensive ones have bad reviews as to quality so I'm leary about pulling the trigger on them.

These days you can no longer reckon that more expensive = better, cheap = poor. Nearly all my oval punches are from China. They each were a modest price. And all are perfectly ok. Some needed a wee bit of sharpening first but nothing too bad. Buy some modest priced punches. Buy just a couple of different sizes from one place. If they are ok, then buy more from them, but even that is no guarantee the next ones will be as good