First leather attempts

[Mocivnik]

Here are my first real leather attempts:

 

First are 2 belts, I've made for collegues..

And a couple of biker's wallets I've came up with. Nothing special, but they are the first ones, I've made. The left one was a present for a friend of mine, who gave me a hand couple years ago and wasn't able to meet him until a month ago.

[LetterT]

Is it normal for the stamp be so visible on the back side (I spot a blue  circle on the opened wallet)?

It would be nice to color the edge on the card holder on the left wallet, now the edge kind of pops put more because of the all black background.

Nice two prong buckle on the belt, I do not see that often.

[Mocivnik]

@LetterT:

1. Well, I guess I pressed the stamp too hard. I'm using a vice to stamp for now, but hopefully, I'm getting a knacking press within a month. Will do it more even and will have to test different materials on background of leather. I used hardwood for now.

 2. I did painted it with Fiebing's edge kote, but I guess it wasn't finished on this pic yet. Unfortunatelly, I've uploaded these photos waaaaaaaay too fast. I should wait until September, when I will (hopefully) be able to finish plenty of stuff more).

 

3. Yeah, I really wanted a 2-prong leather belt for myself, but buckle as this, isn't very practical. You need 5 times much time as with 1 prong to close it. They're not conected between and it's a bit harder to center both into holes.

I'm searching for this kinda buckles, they're easier to deal with.

 

[noobleather]

Nice clean looking belt there

[ComputerDoctor]

Yes, nice work!

I have a wallet like that that I carried for years when I rode my Harley all over the United States and thanks to the chain, I never lost it, unlike other normal wallets that can work their way out of your back pocket.

The belts look professional but wait until you decide to do fancy tooling on one-----Believe me, it takes forever doing it by hand, without a press.

It is a pain but I normally dye even the inside of my projects. Sometimes I use a different color for some interesting contrast. Oh, dye the insides before you put everything together:)

Sam:)

[Mocivnik]

@ComputerDoctor:Thanks for the compliments.

 

I'm getting an arbor press soon now

 

why is it a pain to dye inside of projects? I don't know, I don't do it because I like the "natural" look of the leather on the inside. But I might one day. And it soaks up really a lot of (not so cheap) dye..

[ComputerDoctor]

"And it soaks up really a lot of (not so cheap) dye."  There ya go, it is a pain because it seems to take forever to spread dye in the porous side and it does take a lot of dye.

The only way I would leave the natural color showing is if I was using yellow or straw dye for the outside, then there isn't such a sharp color contrast.

Sam:)

[Mocivnik]

Well, so far I've used only 2 brands for dyes..Fiebings and Colore di Inferno. Second is okay and 70% cheaper, but Fiebing's the real stuff. And if it soaks up very much per project, well..

Is there any possibility to dilute to dye? Fiebings pro dye?

[jmkjmk2]

keep it up great hobby