School Backpack

[Tim Schroeder]

My daughters backpack for school. It's not finished yet, still have a pocket with tooling and her name on it to hand sew on the front. She starts school Monday.

[Antwene]

this is amazing ! The tooling is wonderfull

[benlilly1]

Wow, that ought to last her forever! Nice work!

[WScott]

Beautiful work!!!

[Peter T]

Excellent! I'll bet that was a very satisfying project to work on. Great work.

Pete

[electrathon]

Hurry up! Monday is coming fast! And she can fit her cat inside to bring to school.

Edited August 25, 2013 by electrathon

[veedub3]

That's one nice school bag!

[The Dawg Club]

That's awesome!! I want to make one for my daughter now..

[Razz]

Beautiful work, lots of nice tooling. I'm willing to bet she is very proud of her backpack and wil be getting lots of compliments on it.

Great job.....is this your own design?

[silverwingit]

Lemme understand this...

You're going to give that museum-quality piece to a kid to take to school?

It should be behind glass!

Michelle

Edited August 26, 2013 by silverwingit

[WinterBear]

You might have the teachers asking for folios and maybe briefcases once they get a load of that pack. And the other parents will be cursing you because now their kids will want one like that. And your daughter is going to love it.

[LeeTy Leathers]

Absolutely beautiful.

Edited August 26, 2013 by LeeTy Leathers

[sherlockian100]

Very nicely done!

[Aurelie]

Just a terrific/amazing piece of work both for the tooling and the assembly ! Congrats!

[Jazznow]

Absolutely beautiful. Your daughter will love it.

[Lavendara]

[Tim Schroeder]

Thanks for the compliments. Here is a couple of pictures of the front. I did have it done for the first day of school so she was happy. She already knew what she wanted with the Fighting Farmer Logo, her name and initials then said I could put tooling anywhere I wanted. Just used an old backpack to get some starting numbers. Thanks to Leatherworker .net I am drawing my own patterns and my tooling is much better. Thanks Bob Park.

I do have some leather zipper pulls made and need really small black D Rings to attach them to the zippers.

Thanks again Tim

[Kathi]

Beautiful work! What kind of machine do you use? I'm looking for a walking foot machine and can't decide what to buy, but the stuff I would make would have zippers, like your backback.

[biker55]

I'm speechless, that's why I'm typing. you are talented my friend.

[Tim Schroeder]

Hi Kathi, Thanks. My machine is the same as a Cobra Class 18. $1695. Mine is a Mitzi. I bought my machine from a local sewing repair man. ($750 for just the machine new) and bought a stand ($49) then built a much bigger top than most you can buy. Piece of Corion counter top out of a place I remodeled. I built my own speed reducer. 12" pulley to a 2" pulley. 6:1 reduction and I can sew thru 1/2" veg tan leather as slow as I want, still have variable speed and it feels like you are sewing thru fabric. There are many different servo motors. I paid $125 for a half horse Consew Servo motor and it is more than you would ever need for 1/2" and under with a speed reducer. It is a walking foot needle feed machine. Thanks Tim

[Jimbob]

Holy maccoroni!!!

Wow, what a wonderful piece....and so well tooled.....I pull my hat!!!

If I would have had a school bag like that when I went to school....they would have made me the home coming queen in no time.....Ohhhh wait, wont work....I have hairy legs...ohhh well.

Very nice work and super craftsman ship!!

Jimbob

[jayjay]

Beautiful would you mind sharing the weight of the leather you used?

[Tim Schroeder]

Hi jayjay, Thanks. It's all made out of 3-4 oz. An Econo hide from Tandy.

[gentle ben]

How many hours you got in that? What a piece.

[jessebeckham]

INcredible work. I like the color. What dye did you use? Its a great even dye job.