Question on rolled handle cores

[RockyAussie]

That is true, Hermes bought all the large ones awhile ago and the only 2 I know that haven't sold are hard and very expensive to buy from. I can arrange the sale of hornback backstraps if you like as I have thousands of them here. Pretty sure around $60.00 au plus gst + freight will cover it. I think I could sell the hatband/wristband strips that get cut off the side when I make their belts as well. Tons of that here unfortunately. Regards Brian

[Windrider30]

12 minutes ago, RockyAussie said:

That is true, Hermes bought all the large ones awhile ago and the only 2 I know that haven't sold are hard and very expensive to buy from. I can arrange the sale of hornback backstraps if you like as I have thousands of them here. Pretty sure around $60.00 au plus gst + freight will cover it. I think I could sell the hatband/wristband strips that get cut off the side when I make their belts as well. Tons of that here unfortunately. Regards Brian

how much is freight? and yeah it is expensive as hell for some damn reason makes it hard to get ahold of, though thinking of reaching out to an uncle in the states and see if he can get me some gator skins 

[YinTx]

On 6/1/2017 at 5:29 PM, RockyAussie said:

With some leathers that might work OK I'm not sure.I tend to put an isolator fabric on a lot of leather particularly croc to keep it from stretching around and losing shape as you work it. A lot of keeping the shape and movement of the product is better with an isolator fabric backing the leather where it rubs against another piece.

What kind of fabric are you talking here?  Cotton t-shirt type, bedsheet type, heavy felt type, nylon?  Thanks!

YinTx

[Dunluce]

When I was talking to someone recently about making rolled bag handles they told me to go to a local leather goods and fittings shop and ask for stuffing for Bugatti handles. Apparently (I may be wrong) they were he first to do this type of handle and it has become named after them. I went to the shop and they had rolls of it in two different thicknesses and it was very cheap. It is a fibrous type of material with a thread like webbing over it. I haven't actually made a handle yet so I can't report how it works. 

[RockyAussie]

8 hours ago, YinTx said:

What kind of fabric are you talking here?  Cotton t-shirt type, bedsheet type, heavy felt type, nylon?  Thanks!

YinTx

Although I use several different types for different purposes the most common one is interfacing which is a non woven fabric type stuff that most sewing fabric type places stock. I don't use the iron on type I generally just spray glue and attach most of the time.With handles a sheet type fabric would work well if not better. When working with crocodile and particularly glazed croc it tends to be want to curve back into a round shape and to overcome this I attach to the croc an interfacing and carefully flatten out and leave under a flat press overnight (thick craft-wood on top of marble slab and more weights on top). The interfacing finishes well short of the edges and skiving and the croc is generally recut to shape after the flattening process.