Tools we create

[Mjolnir]

I'm a maker, I love to create something from nothing. I also like to improve and make cooler the tools that I need. Although this isn't specific to leather, my x-acto is one of a kind. It's a tool we all use. ( This was a piece of cedar from my back yard. All done with a Mouse sander and dremel tool.) What are your hand made tools? 

[rodneywt1180b]

Neat!  Kind of reminds me of an old quill pen. Any working reasons for the extra length?

I'll post a couple of mine soon.  I've also restored most of my woodworking tools.  Most of my main ones are from the 40s and 50s.

Rodney

 

[Mjolnir]

the balance happened by intuition. the shape is a katana. I dig the the 40 and 50's!

 

Edited December 3, 2017 by Mjolnir

[rodneywt1180b]

Here's a couple of mine.  First up is a home made stitching pony for holding sticks while I stitch them.  It's made of a couple scrap pieces of maple and fir. The hinge is salvaged from a sewing machine cabinet and I just have a piece of 1/4" all thread with a nut and a wing nut on it for tightening.  It's crude but it works.  I figure if I do want to hold something flat I'll just shim it out with another piece of wood.

Here's a couple awls I made.

The top one I just made for stitching.  It's an interesting little offcut from a madrone shank I have.  The point is made from a broken off 1/16" drill bit ground to a diamond shape.

The bottom awl has a mahogany handle that I originally made as a sewing stiletto.  It sees use as a general purpose scratch awl.

 

[Mjolnir]

necessity is the mother of invention. Not form or money. I like your raw intensity. This week I wanted to bend an oak plank, I didn't have a table vise so I looked in my car trunk to find something that would hold wood in place, I was looking for rope and found a ratchet strap. I didn't have a steambox. So I spent $8 at Walmart for a stock pot (I wasn't bending 6 feet of timber!). I used another ratchet strap to pull and bend my board. leverage. That was the key. Not a bench vise and a mold. a little more shaping to finish. then tongue oil. a wooden ball for a 360 pivot attatched to my bench:)

[Sanch]

 There are allot of us "makers" here I've done many tools from mauls to swivel knives to head knives blablabla lol!  Stitching clamps, burnishers, awls, allot of stuff just for me and just because I pinch the heck outta pennies lol!