Exposed Flesh Side on Wallet Spine

[koreric75]

On 3/14/2018 at 7:54 AM, superpacker said:

I'm making a bifold wallet out of dark brown buttero veg tan. The inside has a column of card slots on either side. My problem is the inside spine of the wallet - where about .5" - .75" the flesh side of the leather is exposed  right down the center. This is the flesh side of the outer panel of the wallet. And given the tight glossy hair side of this dark brown leather, this strip of exposed pale, matte, flesh just seems distracting, or amateurish. Is there anything that can be done to this area without making the wallet bulkier. I thought of dying this black to match the edges and give more contract to the brown. Any thoughts on this? Any other suggestions. 

Here's a liner i made last week for a wallet out of brown glazed pigskin, it's really thin but tough and doesn't stretch alot.  notice only the center area is stitched at this point to hold the pockets to the backing liner.  This has 2 layers back to back for the pocket backing, rolled the edges, and used some of the sb foot leather i recently recieved and the wallet is still only about .5" thick folded.  You could do the same thing with only a center strip between the pockets, but then you have the flesh side of the pocket material showing when you open the bill fold area and this brown is ugly on the back, the black glazed has a nicer suede on the back and doesn't look bad at all.

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Here a pic of the back after assembly, no stitch lines in the middle, only where i attached the liner.  I chose to do the 2d line of stitching around the pockets only because i suck at sewing and miscalculated the distance from the edge of the backer i needed to come in to get a good bite on the liner.  I made the pockets wide enough after rolling the edges to allow 1/4" and still fit a credit card.

P.S. I did the stitching with my little singer 15-91 with #69 white bonded nylon with a 110/16 needle and max stitch length.  You can see the marks from the feed dogs where it got tight coming up to the fold, I think next time i'll stop further from the fold and if it needs a few extra stitches i'll just use a small awl and hand stitch to the fold to prevent that, or measure right the first time and sew it from the back...lol.  The presser foot didn't cause any marks, but i actually like the look of the stitiching when sewing with the liner side up vs backer side.

[Northmount]

See this video for instructions on making an expandable wallet liner that hides the center fold and doesn't bunch up in the middle. 

 

The pattern for the liner is here https://www.leathercraftlibrary.com/download/K33pit53cr3t/Blog_Project_Patterns/TLF_BillfoldBlog_1115.pdf

Tandy has a number of helpful videos on many subjects.

Tom