Pattern For Wallet?

[Art]

I'm new to the forum as well, new to leatherworking, and I don't use forums very much anyway. I have to admit, I've had some trouble navigating this site as well. It's difficult to know what to search for when you're not even familiar with some of the basic terminology. Perhaps posts like these should simply be directed to a newcomer-friendly sub-forum?

We don't quite look at it that way. For the newcomer, and the oldtimer, it is advantageous to click on the "view new content" button at the top of the page. Then for the first time through click on the "mark community read" button and select "mark all as read" to reset the read messages. Then you will be able to see all messages from all forums and read them all if you want or not and when you have seen enough you can "mark all as read" again. A forum for newcomers would probably only be inhabited by newcomers, moderators, and ambassadors.

We stink at searches, this is not just us as not many forums can have the search capabilities of google. Google has more indexing on a site than the site itself has, they have buildings full of servers to run and index the multitude of information generated by a plethora of web crawlers to build those indexes. We can't do that, and if we could it would cost too much, ain't gonna happen.

Soooooooooooooooo................USE GOOGLE!!!!

if you want to see posts about wallets on leatherworker.net, type the following into the google search line:

site:leatherworker.net wallet

for wallets and other related stuff try:

site:leatherworker.net ~wallet

Leatherworker.net has been around a while and you are not interested in old posts try:

site:leatherworker.net wallet 2014..2015

this will give you only the last two years of wallet posts

Lets say that is great but you really hate alligator and don't want to see anything about that, then try"

site:leatherworker.net wallet -alligator 2014..2015

There are other more powerful criteria and search parameters which you can research. We of course hope you have fun with the site.

Art

[KrisbeeKream]

Now THAT is newbie friendly!

As a side note, though, I've had pretty decent luck perusing the "Getting Started" subforum as well. It's probably not as user friendly for finding something very specific, but for generally getting into the craft, it's been quite helpful. There are wallet patterns (and other basic patterns) in there, although I haven't tried looking for the specific style mentioned by the OP.

[Red Bear Haraldsson]

Excellent advice Art. Found a few posts I had seen before but couldn't find a second time.

Thientran2711 - Don't worry on your behavior. It's fine. We've all had good and bad luck finding things in here in the forums. Welcome to our house, enjoy the show.

[mickthedig]

HI thientran2711

Making the rolled edges on the wallet you want can be difficult. I would suggest you look at Ian Atkinson's webpage at http://www.ianatkinson.net/leather/videos.htm He has a loads of videos that will show you the tools you will need and how to make a wallet. He has a pattern you can buy and then make it with the help of his video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNXfMC0SqP4

Once you make a couple of these you could then change the pattern to make the wallet you have in your picture.

Good Luck

Mick

[lionscrest]

Thanks

[JLSleather]

That wallet is certainly thinner leather than 3 oz.. more like 1 1/2 oz. And realistically, if somebody already made a pattern for something similar, it may save a guy some time to spend a few bucks to get the pattern. But, I certainly wouldn't spend the time i saved watching a video that's over an hour.

Patterns should come with instructions how to use them. Useless if they don't come WITH that.