Lurker finally posting

[Crashresq]

Evenin all... been lurkng for a while and admiring all the skills and talent here.  Thought I'd post a few things I finished up today.  I'm a newb - did a little tooling and kit projects some time back but nothing really useful.  Recently started back up and acquired a nice old Singer industrial... and here are my attempts at using it.  The black/gray journal cover is from reclaimed leather (some old purses)... the wallet is from an old leather coat and the change purse/business card holder is also from reclaimed.  The brown journal cover and the messenger bag is from a 4.5oz side from Tandy.

[bikermutt07]

Keep up the good work.

[Crashresq]

Thank you Bikermutt.  Not sure if a lot of folks do any work with "reclaimed" leather, but my wife and I craft quite a bit with reclaimed items - I do a lot of woodturning with woods recovered due to storm or ice damage... a lot of the blacksmithing I do is with material from a local salvage yard.  Knives are the exception... need to know for sure what I'm using in them.  Thought I would apply the same thinking to leather and so far, it's been interesting.  Here are a couple of pictures of the leather recovered from three coats I found at a flea market for $5 - that was for all three.

[bikermutt07]

That's great. Leather isn't cheap, and like my boss says "turn that trash into cash".

Several people here have mentioned scavaging sofas and jackets for material. 

Keep on keeping on.

[VTleather09]

On 1/22/2017 at 9:36 PM, Crashresq said:

Thank you Bikermutt.  Not sure if a lot of folks do any work with "reclaimed" leather, but my wife and I craft quite a bit with reclaimed items - I do a lot of woodturning with woods recovered due to storm or ice damage... a lot of the blacksmithing I do is with material from a local salvage yard.  Knives are the exception... need to know for sure what I'm using in them.  Thought I would apply the same thinking to leather and so far, it's been interesting.  Here are a couple of pictures of the leather recovered from three coats I found at a flea market for $5 - that was for all three.

I used to this a lot when I first started, as I had no idea where to find leather.  Also, I had no idea about the various properties and purposes of/for all the various types of leather.  As a newb, I thought, "leather is leather".  I still buy up old jackets to use the pieces as inlays, tinder pouches, linings and arrow quivers. I've also made some really nice pencil roll cases with re-claimed leather...only warn leather has that "warm" glow to it.  Anyway, great find!