Just finished a couple cell phone holsters

[Luke Hatley]

Timbo when you moulded the cases did you make a

wood form to do your molding ?

I have been asked to do 24 Zippo lighter cases.

I started cutting out the wood today.

[Jordan]

a couple of pics of what I did for mine, just thought you might like to see'um

[SCOUTER]

Timbo, SWEET! Nice Stiching, Tooling and NICE SNAP! Thanks for posting!

Jordan- Also nice! I guess you case the leather and place the square-holed wood piece over the form and sandwich the leather?

Wet-forming is

[Jordan]

Yup, a couple of C clamps overnight, had alot of fun making the mould and the cases, not very efficient for production but came out pretty good for not really knowing if it would work, I have even sold a few.

[Timbo]

Timbo when you moulded the cases did you make a

wood form to do your molding ?

I have been asked to do 24 Zippo lighter cases.

I started cutting out the wood today.

Luke, I do them pretty much the way Jordan shows. Funny thing is that I just made a Zippo buck over the weekend too. I make all of my bucks out of oak and use c clamps as well. Only problem with oak is if you leave them in too long they start to turn color as it draws the tannin out of the oak. I take mine out after about half an hour and set them aside and let them dry. On the cell cases I use a big enough chunk of leather to press mold all 4 sides then cut off the top. When you try to do three sides the open/top side won't pull tight. Which is okay for lighters as it makes it easier to get out of the case. But I still wind up cutting some of the top off anyway.

Thank you all for kind words!!!

Tim