Whats Your Technique Of Cutting A Pattern?

[DavidL]

Id like to hear everyones way of cutting a pattern out of leather.

I have no issues drawing the pattern on the leather, but when it comes down to cutting the leather out I tend to cut a mm past the line on some edges and corners aren't 90 degrees on some areas.

what type of tool do you use to cut rounded corners? Do you freehand or use or coin?

[Northmount]

Corner punch http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com/en-usd/search/searchresults/3780-00.aspx

Tom

[Dwight]

Freehand cut everything, . . . drywall knife, . . . and I cut it on the line.

All of my patterns are pretty much "on the money" so I don't have to cut extra or anything like that.

The only thing I do not freehand is straps, . . . got a strap cutter for that, . . . everything else is freehand, . . . assembled, . . . sanded, . . . beveled, . . . gouged, . . . and Boss stitched.

May God bless,

Dwight

[Red Cent]

Drum sander is your friend. I cut the outer and liner fairly carefully but they never match up real good. After the glue is dry I square all the edges with a drum sander and a drill press. I do this with almost anything including belts.