manfrommuc Report post Posted June 3, 2008 hello to all here are some pics of my first briefcase workshop it was a lot of work but its worth.....puh a big thanks to my teacher Rene Berends he is really a leatherartist greetings from bavaria manfrommuc Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jammon Report post Posted June 3, 2008 Very clean work, looks fantastic Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Storm Report post Posted June 3, 2008 Ihre Arbeit ist sehr schön.( Your work is very beautiful.) Nizza Verarbeitung.(Nice workamnship) Keep it up! Storm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomSwede Report post Posted June 3, 2008 Hey Johann! Great looking briefcase. Love the colouring. Looks almost like some sort of texture, did you do the colouring and if so, how? I'm really curious to know what's going on with that braid at the bottom since it doesn't seem to go over the edge. Never seen that before. I've seen some of Rene Berends work and it's great. How nice to have such a teacher! Keep it up and keep posting! Tom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spider Report post Posted June 4, 2008 This is awesome. I love briefcases and this one is pimp (nice). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Regis Report post Posted June 4, 2008 manfrommuc, Excellent! Nice clean design and work. Some lucky person will use that for many years. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manfrommuc Report post Posted June 4, 2008 @all thanks for the flowers @tom this art of dyeing is done by a pice of cloth and the color is saddle tan the important thing is to be very carefully with dyeing not to much dye on the cloth and allways start on the top left corner of your pice of leather and allways make a circular moving with your pice of cloth till no more dye get on your leather and than start this action again with the lacing you are right this art of lacing is going over the edges (-: i hope the declaration is good enough greetings from bavaria manfrommuc Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
craftsman827 Report post Posted June 4, 2008 Very Nice Job ! ! ! I would like to see the case from the side view. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manfrommuc Report post Posted June 5, 2008 Very Nice Job ! ! !I would like to see the case from the side view. hello craftsman here are some pics from the side greets mfm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomSwede Report post Posted June 6, 2008 Sweet sweet sweet. That is a nice braid but for me the whole purpose with braiding is to avoid having to do the tideous edging, lol;-) Tom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manfrommuc Report post Posted June 6, 2008 @all who are interested on workshops on DVD with Rene Berends !! look here http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=3387 greetz mfm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnBarton Report post Posted January 16, 2009 @all who are interested on workshops on DVD with Rene Berends !! look here http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=3387 greetz mfm Rene Berends' works is awesome and yours is too as it shows that you have picked up on what he teaches. I have seen one of his boxes with a leather hinge on it and it took me several days to create one of my own. I am still stuck on just how to do the pin on it - well maybe not as it so happens I have just had a thought as to how to do it. But once done these will make lovely and durable hinges for my cue cases. Very very nice briefcase - schlicht und sicher. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
