First wet formed bag

[Patrice]

Wow!

Very nice piece! Did you shape the wood form yourself or just found a piece that you bougth?

[MagiKelly]

Very nice piece! Did you shape the wood form yourself or just found a piece that you bougth?

I shaped it myself. Here is a picture.

I have now finished bag number two. This one is a bit taller as I had the leather a bit big so just formed it taller. It is pretty much the same construction but in purple this time.

and a comparison with the first one

[TomSwede]

That is such a sweet bag!! Love the red tone and the edges on that one!!

The little I've tried wetforming is that is not very eas so seems you have a talent with it (or I suck with it).

Well done!!

Tom

[MagiKelly]

I was asked for pictures of the backs so here they are

Fronts at same time for reference and because these show the colours better than the previous pictures.

I have the next piece of leather on the form so here are a few pictures of the process.

The form

Half done. The first half always being the easiest but you need to make sure you are not leaving too much loose leather for the other side to form.

This is just before the stage where you are sure you will not get it on the form and you want to sweep it all off the table and smash everything in sight.

This is just after the stage of abject hopelessness when you finish and once again are amazed that it actually went on.

There is a mistake on this side. About a third up from the bottom I cut a slit too far in and it is right into the stitching crease. This should not really show up much on the finished bag and it did allow me to take out a good sized dart to tighten up the top part of the leather on this side.

You can see there are far more darts on this side. As I said it is the second side where you get all the hard work.

[csoty]

I like it!