Last Stuff For A While

[Jazznow]

Hey all,

just wanted to show off the stuff i did in the past few weeks. It will be the last stuff i can do for a while since my apprenticeship as an orthopaedic shoemaker started on September, 1st. That means lots of cleaning up, cutting sole rubber, give glue to sole parts and so on for the next weeks until i can do more complex stuff. But it leaves me with nearly zero energy at the evening.

After spending a great time with Ray from barefootleather (UKRay) this summer, i followed his advice to do always more than one piece at a time with the handbags in the following pics. I made three handbags at a time. two with border decorations and one with a carving of a celtic knot on the flap. Later bags of that style will have another way to close them because the strap overlaps the carving realized that too late^^

This belt pouch ist the prototype for the handbags above. I wanted to make it from leather i had lying aroung before making it from my good veg tan. Since i haad not enough leather to make a shoulder strap, i did a belt pouch first.

The black handbag is a prototype too. I will make more of those in differengt sizes some day, since i like it very much.

Those damn cicle pouches really pi**ed me off (sorry for the strong language) . I did almost 60 of them ann its no fun at all after doing 5^^. It was a fight to make 2 or 3 every day but finally i finished them

Thanks for looking at my stuff. Any constructive critique is welcome

Best wishes,

Jonathan

[King's X]

Nice stuff Jonathan......Thanks for sharing and good luck with your new venture!

[Jazznow]

Thanks for your Kind wird's!