Thin Kit Leather Vs What I Have To Practice With

[dragonspit]

interesting conversation. As a newb, I was in the same boat. Just due to the availability and name, I bought a kit from tandy to start. but they had a sale on some heavy stuff. the grain seemed nice (this coming from someone who doesnt know what he's looking at), but it was like 8oz. I would use this heavy stuff to make some small projects and learn. I struggled casing it, but the tooling looked decent, but not quite deep enough. then I put one of the kits together, and it looks really nice, just like it should. so I had more trouble with the heavy stuff than the lighter stuff. Now I realize some of the tools are not as good as I will need. but till I got going and decided on direction and methods, it didnt matter much to me yet. but also being new, its kinda hard to justify buying a side and shipping from something you have never seen, to do some projects that arent anything more than learning experiences. of course, its all learning experiences. so I just bought a small shoulder of 4oz at tandy to do something with, along with I still have the heavy stuff. but it would be interesting to see what the differences is in what ever one calls a better quality leather, vs what Tandy carries. on the positive side, although tandy isnt super close to me. it is on my way into a travel town almost weekly. its nice to be able to touch and feel what your buyin. thanx for all the info here, I just found it an interesting post.

[JLSleather]

its nice to be able to touch and feel what your buyin.

Yes, it is. This one I couldn't do that, but I thought I'd pop in to say that I received that hide from W & C - very nice and more than reasonably priced ($125 to the door).

Edited November 23, 2010 by JLSleather