Thin Veg Tan For Tooling - Usa Source

[Mokosh]

Could anyone tell me where I can get some very thin veg tan (preferably in the US)? I want to do some light tooling and I do not want the leather to be very thick due to the construction technique I plan to use. I think the thinest Tandy sells is like a 2oz? And sometimes the quality has been really spotty...

Any suggestions of where to search?

Thanks!

[DoubleC]

Springfield Leather Co. should have it. If not I know they have tooling pig (I have some) which is very thin and nice. Cheryl

[electrathon]

Not sure what you are planning to tool, but thin equals difficult when it comes to tooling. Also not sure what you consider this to be. Usually 3-4 oz is about as thin as you would want to tool with, and that can take some practice. Pretty much any leather dealer can sell it to you.

[Dan28]

I got some calf skin from Springfield Leather Co that is pretty thin. Not sure if you could tool it though.

[Mokosh]

I'm not a master leather tooler yet (give me another 20 years. lol!) but I am pretty experienced. I feel confident that if I find the right thickness it will do what I want it to. I plan on cutting holes in it (openwork lacy type designs) and probably incising patterns into the surface with a knife, more than doing the traditional western style deep embossing, etc - though if I could find something that was thin enough and could take a stamp, that would be amazing. I would like it to have a little firmness like most veg tan does, because the really drapey garment type stuff won't work well in this instance.

Thanks for the recommendation for Springfield Leather Co. I'll definitely check it out! The pig sounds like it might do the trick!