phone cases

[The Major]

Hello all,

just thought I's share a couple projects that I finished up last night.

The phone cases are all for Razr's made from 4oz cow, lined with 1 oz pig skin split, and laced with hand dyed and hand cut kangaroo lace.

The belt is not heavily tooled. I was playing around with the tooling on this one. Tried some inverted carving and instrade of raising the lettering, I decided to depress them using a backgrounding tool. Something different.

The ring is actually a pattern I made a mold from to cast out of gold for my friend's wedding bands. I used the newer celtic border stamps from tandy for the pattern. I had this nice leather ring after all was said and done, so I figure, what the heck. Why not a leather ring. So I washed it with a light shade of green spirit dye. Boiled it, let it cool, boiled it again and added some parafin. Seems to have worked well. Now lets see it they sell.

[candyleather]

Wonderful works!!!!

One question: how do you close the leather ring?

[The Major]

Thanks. I skived the edges down to make a nice matching taper on each side. and used super glue gel to bond it.

[Roger]

all looks good to me!

one of these days i need to take the time to make myself a belt:)

[The Major]

all looks good to me!

one of these days i need to take the time to make myself a belt:)

You and me both. It's sad isn't it. Like the shoe maker's son who has no shoes. LOL

[CitizenKate]

The only stuff I've made so far that I've kept are my design prototypes. One-a these days, though...

Nice pieces, Shawn!

Kate

[Regis]

All really nice work. Thanks for sharing the pic's. Were you trying to get the parafin "into" the leather or as a finish coating?

Regis

[The Major]

Thanks all.

I used the parafin as a stiffener rather than a finish. So I let it soak into the pores of the leather while it was melted.

[Don101]

Nice ideas and work Major,

@ Beeza do all us leather makers have the same problem i never seem to get around to making myself a belt.