Downtowner purse

[equiss]

Hey guys just finally finished with this downtowner purse. This first attempt is for the girlfriend and thankfully she likes it.

This is the largest project Ive attempted so far and was rather different then the smaller things I have been working on. Alot of lacing that I over all didnt do very well on.

Anyways

the outside leather gusset/body/strap is about 4oz (tandy leather) dyed with feibings british tan, then antiqued with feibings anitque, some neats foot thrown in here and there, finished off with tan kote, and a dash of snow seal.

The inside is lined with pigskin naturel lining stuff and the inside pocket (oops sorry no pics) is some 2oz calf.

The lace is dark brown 1/8 superior tajes. This is where most of my issues came from on this project, first off I punched the holes which I havent done before but I did not like the look compared to using a stabbing awl or the slat punche things. Anyways I just felt the holes looked not as good (IMHO). Also I kept running into issues with the lacing breaking on me. It seemed the superior lace I had had some weak (rot) spots in it probably from sitting on the shelf too long. Anyways so lots of times I would get about 2" and it would break. I could tell the weak spot becuase you could pull it apart really easy. So I had to take to testing the lace as I waxed it before lacing searching for weak spots. Found it was mostly in the outer portions of lace and as I got toward the center of the roll it was all pretty sturdy.

Well enjoy and critics allways welcome.

Hi there - did you make your own pattern? I want to do some purses that are similair, but I never know how much leather to use for the gussets. Nice job!

[MADMAX22]

The pattern for the purse is from one of the pattern packs that tandy sells. tandy pack