New member from San Francisco

[Leather Repair Center]

Hi everyone,

My name is Alexander. I run a small leather repair business serving the Bay Area, mostly working on furniture, car seats, and commercial seating. Spending time working with leather naturally got me curious about leathercraft in general, especially making things like bags, belts, and wallets.

I’m not making anything just yet, but I’m really interested and plan to start learning and experimenting soon. For now, I’ll mostly be reading, watching what others are creating, and soaking up as much knowledge as I can.

Glad to be here and grateful for the opportunity to learn from such a skilled and passionate community.

 

[AlZilla]

Welcome aboard. I'd love to do some upholstery and car seats, if I could discipline myself to focus. Even in my rural part of the world, the few who do it, make good money. 

What do you use for sewing machines? There are many sewing machine addicts here ...

Please post some of your repair work over in "Show Off", when you can. I don't think we get much of that here.

[Leather Repair Center]

40 minutes ago, AlZilla said:

Welcome aboard. I'd love to do some upholstery and car seats, if I could discipline myself to focus. Even in my rural part of the world, the few who do it, make good money. 

What do you use for sewing machines? There are many sewing machine addicts here ...

Please post some of your repair work over in "Show Off", when you can. I don't think we get much of that here.

I don’t use any sewing machines yet — I’m just getting started in the leather repair business. Right now I focus on fixing existing leather car seats, but I don’t do full upholstery replacements yet. Planning to offer that down the line, since there’s definitely strong demand and good money in this niche. The guy I’m learning from uses the Juke sewing machine, so when the time comes, I’ll probably go with that brand too.