My Latest Wallet

[Petewon]

Ok no worries. Just the way I read it seemed to be implying I wasn't being helpful.

Cheers.

[thefanninator]

He glues a strip on the inside, stitches it and then re trims to make a perfect straight edge then paints, sands and polishes.

[DR80]

Really nice Did you use any edge dye on the "yellow wallet" ? (which one?) or is it just burnishing?

[Petewon]

Thank you. Yes I used a dye I made up from yellow acrylic mixed with stahl/gardini gloss lacquer. It worked out really well. Probably not as good as just yellow gardini edge paint but I didn't have any and shipping is a bit pricey.

[indynusp]

Hello Petewon, may i know which book or source you used to produce your wallets? Thank you

[Petewon]

Hiya, I havn't used any book patterns for any of the wallets I've shown on here.

It's just trial and error really, the dimentions were just measured from a wallet I have here and the rest of the information was just stuff I had picked up buy watching youtube videos and experimenting with ideas myself. It took a while to get to that stage and I still find it very hard but it's a great way to relax for a few hours.

Maybe look at Ian Atkinson or Nigel Armatige videos on youtube, they both sell a PDF with wallet patterns to accompany their videos. That's a great starting place and will show you pretty much everything you will need to know.

Thanks