Texas Wallet

[Tim Schroeder]

Made this for one of my wife’s coworkers. 2/3 oz. W&C. outside cover. The inside is some 1.5 mm veg tan from Frogjelly leather. All handstitched with .6 mm Tiger thread. Except the ID window. 

[AlZilla]

Assuming that's the usual swivel knife and stamp treatment, it's a pretty deft hand on that 2/3.

Did you apply the dye with brushes and maybe some kind of pick in the knife cuts on the leaves? I really need to make effort and up my dye game.

Very inspiring work.

[DieselTech]

Nice work. Looks great!

[Tim Schroeder]

Thanks, I spray the whole piece brown then cut in the black. I have a small brush I have trimmed down to just two bristles at the end. Trimmed sheepskin for the black. The brown is Fiebing's light brown and chocolate brown 50/50 and then thinned 50/50 with thinner. Sprayed thru a HVLP spray gun. I don't oil after dying, just after tooling. After dye two light coats of Wyosheen then Sheridan Brown antique finish to high light all the cuts followed by two more light coats of Wyosheen.  

The inside pocket with his name was pretty tough. I had to do it three times to get it right with out cutting thru. That stuff is very thin. It's about half as thin as that 2/3 W&C. Makes nice wallet interiors and you can dye any color you want. 

Edited 5 hours ago by Tim Schroeder

[Dwight]

Thanks pal . . . beautiful wallet . . . 

I won't even think about doing something like that . . . never been that steady at cutting & stamping.

May God bless,

Dwight