I needed a card holder

[Beehive]

This came straight out my head. I used 4-5oz Horween caviler in plum(buckleguy). Veg tanned 3-4oz dyed chocolate(Fiebing pro dye) with a huge .08mm yellow thread(Ritza). Angelus brown edge paint. I used one of those fancy open eye snaps in 12mm(buckleguy). Half the time it's ugly, the other half it's in your pocket. But it's mine. Probably my last, 'wallet' of my lifetime.  

 

 

 

 

Edited Thursday at 11:21 PM by Beehive

[DieselTech]

Nice work. Love the color combo too. Really like the looks of the plum horween. 

[Beehive]

It's crazy nice leather. Hand stitching it takes practice. If you go from stitching nothing but stiff veg tanned to semi soft chrome. It's an adventure. Putting the two together adds to it.

Let me take a picture of the inside. The color isn't that struck through.

[Beehive]

Pretty color on the back. I counter sunk the back of the snap in the chome. Only the veg tanned is holding the snap. It lays flat. Today was it's first day being in a pocket. I can barely feel it's there.

 

(3.38mm stitch spacing. Any wider stitch looking loop was done with a 3.85mm French iron to make things match up with the corners.)

 

 

Edited Friday at 12:32 AM by Beehive

[BlackDragon]

Very nice, love the color!

[Beehive]

5 minutes ago, BlackDragon said:

Very nice, love the color!

 

Thank You. I usually hate everything I make. Don't see it for myself. I guess. 

 

It needs .06mm thread. And if it went traditional steam. Cigar colored. I held blue, green, and red up to the plum. I ran practice stitches using red and white. 

If I did it again, Green in .060mm. 

 

For which is going to never happen. Because me and this card holder have made friends. This is an item that's going to be a daily occurrence in my life. This is what that's going to be in my pocket. 

 

I bought a panel of the brown Horween cavalier. The full 26". I'm gonna cover a 7x10 inch journal. Do it up proper. 

[BlackDragon]

12 hours ago, Beehive said:

 

Thank You. I usually hate everything I make. Don't see it for myself. I guess. 

 

It needs .06mm thread. And if it went traditional steam. Cigar colored. I held blue, green, and red up to the plum. I ran practice stitches using red and white. 

If I did it again, Green in .060mm. 

 

For which is going to never happen. Because me and this card holder have made friends. This is an item that's going to be a daily occurrence in my life. This is what that's going to be in my pocket. 

 

I bought a panel of the brown Horween cavalier. The full 26". I'm gonna cover a 7x10 inch journal. Do it up proper. 

I think the yellow (by my screen) thread compliments the purple hues in the cardholder. It stands out in a good way.

Sometimes people try to minimize the stitching in a project but I tend to make it part of the project, when appropriate.

[Beehive]

1 hour ago, BlackDragon said:

I think the yellow (by my screen) thread compliments the purple hues in the cardholder. It stands out in a good way.

Sometimes people try to minimize the stitching in a project but I tend to make it part of the project, when appropriate.

 

I'm a stickler for stitching. If it's not right, it throws off the whole piece. Yellow in unforgiving. It's big and bold. Brown thread would have hid the stitch line. Blended it in. Not with brighter colors. You can see mistakes from across the room. 

Seating the thread in the Horween takes a butter touch. The type of thing to where you run a practice stitch before stitching for real. It's rather enjoyable stitching chrome. 

Today's agenda is cutting the brown Horween for the journal. I'm still thinking out what decorations it's going to get. It usually takes me a few days of coming up a design I like. Lots of doodling in a notebook. 

[immiketoo]

Looks nice!  What’s the total thickness of it?

[chuck123wapati]

really nice design and great contrast.

[Beehive]

12 hours ago, immiketoo said:

Looks nice!  What’s the total thickness of it?

 

46 minutes ago, chuck123wapati said:

really nice design and great contrast.

 

Thank You, Gentlemen. It's 4-5oz. Total thickness, empty, measured with the veg tanned, 8.3mm or about 5/16ths. Measuring just the chrome, 6mm, ~ a hair under 1/4".

[DoubleKCustomLeathercraft]

Nice. Looks sharp. 

[Beehive]

The book cover is coming along. Same 4-5oz but in brown. When the house is around 65°F, I keep wondering if using a heating pad to warm up the Horween will help it mold. 

I'm not going to wrinkle the leather up so it will marble with pull up. Any pull up on the B5 journal will happen from use. Putting it on and pulling it off the book. 

I have 3-4oz Horween cavalier in a strap I lined a belt billet with. It's a bit thin for my tastes being the whole project. They have 8-9oz cavalier and for the world of me, I can't think of a thing, to where that thick of Horween could be used. Boots? Definitely not the things in my range of making.

4-5oz on the card holder, "fits" my style of doing things. And I hope it gives y'all lots of ideas.

Edited Saturday at 08:35 PM by Beehive
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[BruceGibson]

On 1/30/2025 at 5:14 PM, Beehive said:

This came straight out my head. I used 4-5oz Horween caviler in plum(buckleguy). Veg tanned 3-4oz dyed chocolate(Fiebing pro dye) with a huge .08mm yellow thread(Ritza). Angelus brown edge paint. I used one of those fancy open eye snaps in 12mm(buckleguy). Half the time it's ugly, the other half it's in your pocket. But it's mine. Probably my last, 'wallet' of my lifetime.  

 

 

 

 

Nothing ugly about that!  I'm loving it.  Awesome work!