Making Leather Sap

[RVM45]

Friends,

 

I want to make a lead-shot filled leather sap—and I would like it to be slightly fatter toward the distal end…

Picture the shape of a speed bag or a light bulb—only not quite so pronounced. 

Also, I intend to sew all the seams and then turn the result inside-out to hide much of the stitching, and I intend to use four pieces…

What kind of pattern do I use to get a slightly spherical ball on one end?

If I make the ball end too pronounced, it won’t fit through the neck when I turn the leather inside-out. Is there any good rule of thumb, so that I don’t end up with a bag that won’t turn inside-out?

What weight leather would y’all advise?

 

Thanks!

[chuck123wapati]

First off have you tried the search function? I have seen quite a few saps on the forum.

If I were to make one I would use heavier leather, hand sew or lace and not turn it inside out. I've never made a sap but most I have seen are flatter so you can put them in a pocket or hide them easier. Some even have spring steel sewn inside to give it some snap. You may even consider lacing instead of sewing. I haven't seen a pattern for a four piece sap you will probably have to think that one up yourself.

 This is a ball bag for lead balls I made 6/7 oz. leather to show you how much you could wet mold a simple two piece sap. I used bbs and just mashed  them in with a dowel rod  to get the leather wet formed. it is a three inch circle and formed to about 1 1//2" thick at the center, plenty for a sap.

 

[RVM45]

Friend,

Well duh...

I do most of my reading over on the Holster sub-forum and it had never occurred to me that here might be articles/ tutorials on saps. 

Acrually, I Have little use for a sap as a utilitarian object. I was trying to recreate an olde tyme aesthetic from pictures of old saps that one sees...

Some of the olde tyme saps look like—well, they look like they need a big dose of Viagra  

 

Thanks.

 

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