Purse Patterns - Bruce Johnson

[King's X]

Mr. Bruce

I appreciate the gesture of sharing your patterns.

Greetings from Round Rock, Texas

[Randy Cornelius]

It's a great little book, Thank you Bruce I think everyone here will be able to use it one way or another. You should talk to Hidecrafter and start selling it. O'well everyone can get it here for free now. LOL

Thanks again Bruce.

Randy

[pepin1948]

Thank you veryvery much for sharing.

It will help me a lot.

Pepin

[RustyMelton]

Bruce that's very nice of you. My wife has been after me to make her a purse and I haven't had a pattern. I was going to cut apart one of her purses to use it for a pattern, but no need to now. Thanks

[Leather Bum]

Like everyone else said, many thanks for this fantastic book, Bruce!

L'Bum

[Kustom]

Bruce,

Thank you for your generosity, it is greatly appreciated.

Steve

[larrupin]

Awesome resource and Thank You!

[King's X]

A couple weeks ago Randy Cornelius asked me to post the purse pattern book I made up a few years ago. A little injury and some forced time out of the shop gave me the time to find my last remaining book and get it scanned in this morning. I think I printed up and mailed about 450 of these a few years back. These are some patterns I have used in the past, and still do. Some things I have changed, mostly the tooling patterns. The techniques have pretty much stayed the same. It is about 35 pages or so, and a big file - 15 MB. If I was more computer literate I could probably make it easier.

Bruce or anyone else that had made this purse...I need some clarification.

I am making the Tooled Leather Purse in Bruce's pattern book. I am at the point where I am going to attach the chap leather. Can anyone that has made this purse send me some more pictures of the side where the chap meets the tooled part? Maybe the zipper and well? I am looking to see if the chap leather was turned in a bit before it was stitched to the tooled side, so it gives it a clean edge? Sorry, I am a visual person.

Any help would surely be apprecaited.

Greetings from Round Rock, Texas

[bruce johnson]

I have done them both ways. If you turn that chap leather it is harder to get a nice sew line. It can be done but go slow.

If you don't turn the edge, you can leave a little of the gusset over the edge and trim flush when you are done. Then you can run an edger over both sides and slick it. I dye some, and some I don't. If I dye then do it first. Then apply the slicking agent of choice. I usually use an application of Ron's edge dressing followed by a rub of my mix of paraffin and beeswax melted together. Then run a slicking rag or hardwood slicker over the edge to polish it up.

I don't think I have any photo angles of the end or zipper in this computer.

[King's X]

Cool, thanks Bruce!

Great pattern. I will post pictures when I am done.

Greetings from Round Rock, Texas