wallet Another day, another wallet post. XL Bifold

[Dun]

Grandpa wanted an extra large bifold that can hold all his stuff, including prescriptions. It's huge. Way bigger than anything I would have accepted to work on, except this was grandpa asking. He also requested a pull tab for his most used card. No finger prints left after a life time of farm work so he has trouble with most regular card slots.

so: 3 regular card slots. 2 extra large card slots. 1 pull tab slot. 2 large wing pockets. 1 very large bill slot.

Used this project to try french binding, skiving and multiple layers of edge painting; all for the first time. I'm probably only happy with 70% of the stitches. I really need to get better with awl use.

Outside is a 4/5 oz veg tan(grandpa wanted durable but really I should have gone thinner), dark brown is a mystery veg tan my uncle gave me that burnishes surprisingly well, and the black is glazed pig skin from tandy(soooo also mystery).

Poly thread. Tandy edge flex and sanding and edge flex and sanding and edge and sanding and polishing, etc etc. I did them so many times and still never got the results I wanted. Layers upon layers. Oh well, should be durable.

 

That's 12 layers of leather when not counting the t-slots and folded over edges. Really I think grandpa needs a zippered wallet or something. Or maybe 2 slim wallets. One for medical info and another money and phone numbers he can't remember.

Critique away. I need to start cutting up the pigskin into a million card slots I guess. Not sure what else I'd want to use it on.

[bikermutt07]

That's a big ass honking wallet. I'm sure grandpa could swat a mugger with that thing.

That has a lot going on in it. And maybe it's not perfect, but I'm sure you learned a lot. I applaud you for trying all the different techniques at once. Very ballsy.

The edge paint looks good, I haven't ever tried it. And all your pockets look good.

I also like the two tone brown, it works.

Thanks for sharing.

[Dun]

17 minutes ago, bikermutt07 said:

 

That has a lot going on in it. 

Thanks mutt! Yeah I thought I had figured everything out in the pre production but I ended up changing the design multiple times during the construction. And then half way through learned, here on another thread, I could have just bought him an English pound sized wallet?

[Mattsbagger]

7 hours ago, Dun said:

Thanks mutt! Yeah I thought I had figured everything out in the pre production but I ended up changing the design multiple times during the construction. And then half way through learned, here on another thread, I could have just bought him an English pound sized wallet?

That still wouldn't have got you the pull tab part though. And you learned more doing it your way. The pigskin can be used for lining projects also. It's a complex wallet but I applaud your execution. And it comes down to If Grandpa likes it....who care what ANYBODY else thinks.

[Dun]

8 hours ago, Mattsbagger said:

That still wouldn't have got you the pull tab part though. And you learned more doing it your way. The pigskin can be used for lining projects also. It's a complex wallet but I applaud your execution. And it comes down to If Grandpa likes it....who care what ANYBODY else thinks.

Thank you! I'm not sure what I would line at the moment, anything I could think up right now would create a ton of edge painting that I'm not sure I want to get into. Hmm maybe next would be skiving and folding over edges to hide the chrome tan pigskin lining...

 

[Fire88]

That is a serious wallet and makes my back hurt thinking about it in a back pocket. 

You pulled it off very well as it has a lot going on it one piece. 

[Dun]

23 hours ago, Fire88 said:

That is a serious wallet and makes my back hurt thinking about it in a back pocket. 

You pulled it off very well as it has a lot going on it one piece. 

Thank you. Once it's fully loaded it pretty darn close to the width of a store bought wallet at full capacity. It's just that height and length is insane no matter what.

I think I only pulled off the French binding cause of the height of this wallet, it doesn't actually add width to the card slots!