Leather cutting table

[MarlinDave]

Wal Mart has 2 sizes of these table/bed lift kits. Really solid for hand work but I have seen them broken with beds, etc. Handy to put away and fold the table. 

[Gezzer]

On 6/12/2023 at 8:04 PM, bladegrinder said:

Back when I first started doing leatherwork I used the tailgate of my truck and a piece of plywood for cutting leather because my 2/3 of a one car garage knifemaking shop was too small, and my back always killed me afterwards.

fast forward many years and now my knife shop is 30' x 50'. I have another air conditioned place I keep my sewing machine and all my leather stuff but it's small and not really a place to unroll a side of leather.

that's where I came up with this cutting table. at first I just had the one but recently got another to make it wider. it's just two tables with pvc pipes slid over the legs to elevate it to a nice comfortable, no bending over place to cut leather. the light's I made up too using a couple plastic buckets and some pvc pipe. these are nice, I use these light all over my shop where I think I need extra light at the time, I have outlets everywhere and also have two four outlet gang boxes hanging from the ceiling for some of my machines so it's plug and play everywhere.

I figured I'd post a pic of these tables because there's got to be at least one other person that might use this idea. I'm 6'-1" and these tables are at 44", I love them!

 

NICE !  Outside the box 

[bladegrinder]

13 hours ago, Handstitched said:

Off topic : have you ever been tempted to  try and play it ?   I have an English ' hunting horn' in my collection of ' stuff' . My lungs aren't up to the task of blowing it ..yet. 

HS

Yea, I blew thru it a few times out here in the woods. I think I heard sasquatch yelling back to me.

[bladegrinder]

8 hours ago, YinTx said:

I have that stamp.  I have a real hard time running it straight.  Yours looks like it came out better than any I have done with it!

That was a picture of my "good" practice piece, yea this one takes some concentration and patience.

[Burkhardt]

23 hours ago, bladegrinder said:

That was a phone pic, now I need to figure out how to resize my real camera photos.

 

Yea, that's one of sergies, I just got it last week. that was a practice piece.

I'm not good with computers or a expert but if you're using like Windows 10, I'll upload the pictures, then open them in paint. Then there's a selection of resize and I change just the first number to 660, why that number, I entered it and it worked right so that's my go to number. And if you change the first part of the pixel/size the second number automatically adjusts, then hit save and use that to upload,

[bladegrinder]

Thanks Burkhardt! I did just that, to 660 and it worked.

[bladegrinder]

I resized this one to 700 to see what happens.

 

 

 

Edited June 15, 2023 by bladegrinder
testing photos

[Heartless]

make the longest side 800 pixels, let the short side do what it will - pretty much guaranteed to work on any forum

[Handstitched]

13 hours ago, bladegrinder said:

Thanks Burkhardt! I did just that, to 660 and it worked.

Is that Cane Toad leather?  the texture looks very similar as I have worked with Cane Toad leather myself . 

Nice work  

HS

[bladegrinder]

Yes, that's cane toad.