Windrider30 Report post Posted January 19, 2018 (edited) Made this a while a go and I don't remember if I shared this with the forum or not. This is all hand done, from stitching to pieces together to the tooling and lacing. Took half a hide of garment leather and 250 feet of suede lace to do it! First time of doing a gouche style lacing on the back and side seams did a Mexican round all the way around. Lot more pics here https://imgur.com/gallery/xJLvz Forgot to mention this was the very first time ever of me trying something like a waistcoat/vest of any kind I like the way it turned out and its warm in the fall Edited January 19, 2018 by Windrider30 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
garypl Report post Posted January 19, 2018 Nice looking vest! How many hours do you figure it took you to complete it? Gary Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windrider30 Report post Posted January 19, 2018 2 hours ago, garypl said: Nice looking vest! How many hours do you figure it took you to complete it? Gary Cutting, tooling and stitching took roughly 8 hours the braiding on the other hand took me roughly 5 days to do. So honestly I would say roughly between 50 to 60 hours total The hand stitching was easy the braiding was a pain in the ass but I enjoyed the hell out of it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
garypl Report post Posted January 19, 2018 2 hours ago, Windrider30 said: Cutting, tooling and stitching took roughly 8 hours the braiding on the other hand took me roughly 5 days to do. So honestly I would say roughly between 50 to 60 hours total The hand stitching was easy the braiding was a pain in the ass but I enjoyed the hell out of it Always takes longer than you expect! That's why I will never make a living doing leatherwork! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windrider30 Report post Posted January 20, 2018 8 hours ago, garypl said: Always takes longer than you expect! That's why I will never make a living doing leatherwork! Sooo true about the time tring to do this as a living of sorts myself Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
