1st Wallet.

[Handstitched]

15 hours ago, DieselTech said:

Well dang it! You are supposed to take a couple pics before you sell it. Yeah basket weave is soo nice when its executed perfectly. I have my hit & miss days when tooling the BW. 

Yeh, I know, my bad. I've made some fine stuff ups with basket weave myself.  The 'tri-weave' was my worse ever stuff up. 

HS

[Southerngunner]

Great job on the whole wallet. I struggle with basket weave stamping myself but I will keep trying, maybe someday

[DieselTech]

On 12/11/2023 at 9:21 AM, Southerngunner said:

Great job on the whole wallet. I struggle with basket weave stamping myself but I will keep trying, maybe someday

Yeah Southerngunner I bought a couple higher priced basketweave stamps, & they got 4 alignment tabs on them 2 stamps I bought.

It's got a raised tab/locator on each corner of the stamp & as long as you get the 1st line of stamping straight, it goes good stamping/tooling. 

The geometric stamps get me messed up, & I've not perfected them at any level. 

[jrdunn]

2 hours ago, DieselTech said:

Yeah Southerngunner I bought a couple higher priced basketweave stamps, & they got 4 alignment tabs on them 2 stamps I bought.

It's got a raised tab/locator on each corner of the stamp & as long as you get the 1st line of stamping straight, it goes good stamping/tooling. 

The geometric stamps get me messed up, & I've not perfected them at any level. 

If you don't mind, whose did you get?

[DieselTech]

50 minutes ago, jrdunn said:

If you don't mind, whose did you get?

If you can find them anymore, they are Craftool Pro # X2840 & X2842. These are a solid stainless steel stamp tool, & some of the best Tandy ever offered. 

It is sad that Tandy ever dropped this line up of stamps, because they were deemed too expensive.

[Shazbaz]

On 12/8/2023 at 12:46 PM, DieselTech said:

Well guys & gals here is my 1st wallet. Its probably a bit overkill on the leather, but it's what I had on hand. 

The outside basket weave panel is 6/7 OZ, then all the inside panels are 3/4 OZ. It has 8 total card slots. 

It is all saddle stitched with 346 thread. 

What's your guys & gals thoughts. 

Thanks for looking. 

This looks amazing and it’s the sort of wallet I would like to make for my hubby, do you mind me asking what pattern you used please?

thank you ☺️

[DieselTech]

5 hours ago, Shazbaz said:

This looks amazing and it’s the sort of wallet I would like to make for my hubby, do you mind me asking what pattern you used please?

thank you ☺️

It is a tandypro pattern 3600-02 wallet. I dont know if it's still available. 

It's a makers leather supply pattern, here is the same pattern & it is still available.

[MarshalWill]

Looks good. The BW aligned with the wallet edge is a nice touch.

[Shazbaz]

21 hours ago, DieselTech said:

It is a tandypro pattern 3600-02 wallet. I dont know if it's still available. 

It's a makers leather supply pattern, here is the same pattern & it is still available.

Thank you ☺️ I haven’t started buying templates yet as I’m just starting out with practicing on my industrial machine,  ☺️

Edited March 10, 2024 by Shazbaz

[ChristopherC]

Nice job, love the basket weave!