Greets From Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, Usa

[LANMind]

Greetings and felicitations!

My name is Corey, and I am just beginning to learn about leathercraft. I would like to meet other folks who share an interest.

Have a great day,

​Sláinte!

Health!​

Corey Furman

[bigorange]

here we all are I am in Southern Maryland! post some of your work , we all will help guide you and we will learn something too! glad you made it here

[LANMind]

Uh, I made a coaster last night :S

I'm really just getting started, but I have been watching a bunch of videos in research, and I'm not seeing anything that is going to be beyond my abilities. It will just take time and practice.

[Wild Bill46]

Hi Corey , ---------------

I'm in Georgia,

We are a deversified leather group to be sure, here at LWN but Leather is what we all are interested in !

As Big Orange mentioned were here to help one another, where do your leather interests lye ?.

Coasters are as good place to start as any. Best of luck ----------------------- Wild Bill46

[silverbullet]

Welcome and howdy I'm in NJ been to your town many times , Gary

[keplerts]

Welcome! I am just about an hour east of you in Mifflin County. You will learn a lot from the folks here.

[LANMind]

Thanks, everyone. I'm one of those people who has about ten interests but time for about two at any one time. I'm a little creative - in fact, I'm finishing the final edit on a SciFi book I've written. I hope to have it for sale on Amazon by December. But at this point, the writing is pretty much in the rear view mirror and the business of making the pieces fall in place is taking up much of my free time.

I decided to look into leather craft, initially, because I wanted a nice sporran. What I found was considerably more expensive than I felt I wanted to pay, particularly since it seemed to me that I was capable of like workmanship. I needed a creative outlet, so I began to watch videos, and here I am. I've purchased the basics of the tools, and now I will slowly begin to get used to them. Realistically, I doubt I'm capable of the type of tooling many of you can hammer out, but I'll make things that are functional, and maybe a bit better. We'll see.

I'm definitely interested in bags. I will do some simple ones, just gathering some experience, then move onto my sporran. I think that will be water molded. I also want to do a nice messenger bag, but by the time I get to that point I'll be starting from scratch. Kits are fine, but I feel like they're pretty much done already - except for the tooling.

I would like to do bracelets, and maybe a nice 3.5" kilt belt, but down the road I want to do some armor. That's ambitious, maybe.

I like Celtic patterns. I wish I could obtain that one Craftool Celtic heart stamp, but it only comes in a set of twelve, and I don't want to dish out that much money yet.

Anyway, have a great night, and I'll see you folks here

[King's X]

Hello and welcome to the forum!

[MonicaJacobson]

Hi Corey, welcome to the forum! I think that's how a lot of us came to leatherworking, and certainly that's how I started. Leather is awesome, and I couldn't afford what I liked, so I started making the leather stuff I wanted because I could make it cheaper. Frankly, it wasn't cheaper in the end, but if you get good enough, you can definitely make the money back pretty quickly. Besides, it's so much fun, it's worth the money you throw at it. Good luck!

[LANMind]

Agreed. I'm already seeing that working with leather is an expensive past time, but for the higher end pieces I want I expect to save a little bit. Still, when it comes right down to it, I think if you figure in the cost of materials and the tools, probably most of the leather crafters aren't even getting minimum wage for their time. It is what it is. Anyway, I understand the great satisfaction of making something useful oneself.

Cheers!

Monica - your violin themed leather bag is sheer genius!

Corey