"No One Will Notice!"

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Okay - I'm a perfectionist by nature. As I was dying my edges, some dye accidentally dripped down onto the backside of the leather and I didn't notice it until I flipped it over to finish dying the edges. My first thought - I need to rip out the thread and re-stitch the perimeter. My wife? "it's on the back side - no one will ever notice!!" Uh.... Let's just say she's not in charge of my quality control department...

The edges still need to be burnished one last time, and it needs a couple coats of sealer before I mask off the stitching and apply antique to the tooling.

So, here it is - would you yank out the thread and re-sew it? Or just cut out the affected portion and re-sew that portion only? I'm afraid it'll be pretty tough to sew since it's already been formed and hardened (oven-method). It'll have to be hand sewn - I tried sticking it on the Boss and there wasn't enough clearance without smashing it down a bit and dinking up the leather with the presser foot / stirrup plate.

Oh yeah - this is for a customer, so someone is paying for this item and I personally feel like they deserve a blemish free item. My wife thinks I'm being too picky... What do you think?

[Mekial2222]

If you can just ask the customer, it's their opinion that matters. At least that particular location wouldn't be that hard to hand sew. Personally that wouldn't stop me from buying it if I knew about it ahead of time and depending on how much I was paying.

[Ferg]

Okay - I'm a perfectionist by nature. As I was dying my edges, some dye accidentally dripped down onto the backside of the leather and I didn't notice it until I flipped it over to finish dying the edges. My first thought - I need to rip out the thread and re-stitch the perimeter. My wife? "it's on the back side - no one will ever notice!!" Uh.... Let's just say she's not in charge of my quality control department...

The edges still need to be burnished one last time, and it needs a couple coats of sealer before I mask off the stitching and apply antique to the tooling.

So, here it is - would you yank out the thread and re-sew it? Or just cut out the affected portion and re-sew that portion only? I'm afraid it'll be pretty tough to sew since it's already been formed and hardened (oven-method). It'll have to be hand sewn - I tried sticking it on the Boss and there wasn't enough clearance without smashing it down a bit and dinking up the leather with the presser foot / stirrup plate.

Oh yeah - this is for a customer, so someone is paying for this item and I personally feel like they deserve a blemish free item. My wife thinks I'm being too picky... What do you think?

I don't see the "Drip". I know how you feel. If I was doing it for a customer I would do the whole project over. Drives my wife to near insanity when I throw what I consider blemished goods away but there is a level I wish to accomplish and maintain.

ferg

[olliesrevenge]

I don't see the "Drip". I know how you feel. If I was doing it for a customer I would do the whole project over. Drives my wife to near insanity when I throw what I consider blemished goods away but there is a level I wish to accomplish and maintain.

ferg

Judging by the high quality of your work, you are catering to a discriminating kind of holster buyer. They will notice - guaranteed. If I was the customer I wouldn't mind getting an e-mail w/ a pic of the item, and being given a choice between a do over or a small rebate on the imperfect item.

[NoahL]

You mean the dye that got on the stitching? Honestly I might just dye all of the stitching on the back and make it look like I did it on purpose--then again, my specialty is making leather look all kinds of messed up

[JLSleather]

Ya gotta nice lookin' piece o' cow there. Personally, I'd either replace it - or not - with no mention to the customer. Your wife's prolly right ... proll nobody cares. Only question to ask ... does it bother YOU?

[Big O]

Please don't take this the wrong way.

I've seen a lot of the pictures you've posted on here, and your holsters are nothing short of amazing. The edges, the molding, and especially the stitching are typically PERFECT.

On this one, the stitching, while still damned good, looks a bit imperfect. Can't put my finger on it, but it just doesn't have that perfect look I'm used to seeing in the pictures you put up. And it's not just the drip of dye.

Were you tired or distracted when you did this one?

Don't get me wrong: that's still better than my BEST work.

But you're not me. I'd say restitch it.

[gregintenn]

Were I buying it, I'd notice it, but it wouldn't bother me.

[JWGlover]

I'm very anal about stuff like that so I would restitch that small section.

[Dwight]

I have friends and customers who would do a "So what?" and go on down the road with it, . . . gladly wearing it. In that case, . . . I would do a price adjustment, . . . and all would be happy.

A new customer, . . . especially an out of state customer: do over, . . . keep the other one for the flea market table, . . . no sense in pitching perfectly good items that someone can use.

But then, . . . most people know me more for my practical side.

Good work, . . . keep it up.

May God bless,

Dwight