jroberts3001 Report post Posted December 19, 2015 I just recently got some military grade leather to make some moccasins. What a pain it was to hand stitch, plus it didn't have any stretch. I also make some bible covers from and those turned out pretty good. What are some of your experiences with it. Digger Joe Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Art Report post Posted December 19, 2015 I don't have any experience with it as a "grade" or type of leather. Everything the defense department buys is usually to some "spec" or another, so I assume what you bought is to some mil-spec to be "military grade leather". There is veg tanned, chrome tanned, vegetable re-tanned, and a host of lesser varieties. Chrome tanned makes up more than 90% of leather tanned, vegetable tanned the rest. There are maybe 10 or so sub-types of veg tanned such as Harness, Bridle, skirting, tooling, and a few other sales related classifications. With chrome tanned, it runs a definitive and marketing gamut with each producer or finisher adding something to the mix with Wikipedia providing a reasonable definition . Art Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jroberts3001 Report post Posted December 19, 2015 Probably a bad choice of words on my part. It was the same leather used to make the current military boots I was referring too Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
