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Hey guys

Here is a duffel bag I recently finished.

It was made with dead stock calf skin leather from the YSL (yves Saint Laurent) accessory line. It has an embossed pebble grain/stingray pattern with a durable top coat, much like Saffiano leather.

The bag is sewn at 6 spi (7 tpi) with 432 fil au chinois thread. Nickle plated hardware. Riri zipper. Leather is 4 oz.

 

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Thanks for looking

Chris

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Yeah, that is pretty meticulous. How does it feel? A lot of that Gucci/YSL high end leather just feels fake to me, almost like plastic. I dunno if people like that, but I'm not a fan of that cold plastic feeling leather.

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That's a fine looking bag!

Cowboy 4500, Consew 206RB-4

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Great work!  I love the shape. Did you create the pattern?

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2 hours ago, Dunluce said:

Very nice. Very clean. I admire it and your ability

Thank you !

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1 hour ago, battlemunky said:

Yeah, that is pretty meticulous. How does it feel? A lot of that Gucci/YSL high end leather just feels fake to me, almost like plastic. I dunno if people like that, but I'm not a fan of that cold plastic feeling leather.

To be totally transparent, I didn’t love working with this leather. It’s attravtive, hard-wearing,  and you can tell the calf that they start with us good quality as it very dense with a tight grain. That being said, you’re correct; it feels plastic-y.

It doesn’t burnish at all, impossible to see my pricking iron marks and does not hold a hot crease with my fileteuse iron. Plus it doesn’t have that intoxicating veg tanned aroma.

Im happy I gave it a go but likely won’t look for this kind of leather in the future.

I’ll  stick to full veg Horween or Sedgwick sides lol.

1 hour ago, garypl said:

That's a fine looking bag!

Thanks very much 

26 minutes ago, terryHHI said:

Great work!  I love the shape. Did you create the pattern?

Thank you! Yes, I made the pattern for the bag. 

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That's a great bag.

I'm not paying 80 bucks for a belt!!! It's a strip of leather. How hard could it be? 4 years and 3 grand later.... I have a belt I can finally live with.

Stitching is like gravy, it's only great if you make it every day.

From Texas but in Bossier City, Louisiana.

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Another stunning piece. I'm going to be doing a tote bag soon. I can only hope it'll look that nice. Haha. Couldn't let a 9tpi post slip by haha!

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