Hand stitching say a wallet using fine thread but holes still show

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On 7/30/2018 at 1:30 AM, chrisash said:

As you say the 40s is very fine but also very strong for its size, I am a believer of the Colin Chapman theory on making things, thin or strong enough to do the job as long as it lasts the expected life, so not over engineered. Mind you he designed Racing cars and not wallets

When making something like a leather wallet or other handmade leather item the expected life concept is: you should be making an item that EXCEEDS the standard expected life of a like item.  Example: standard store bought leather wallet may be lucky to have a life span of useful use before failure/issues arise with its construction of about 1 year; leather item made by a person who purchases a kit and then assembles it following the basic instructions with not other skills or experience in the craft will make it at least 2 to 3 years (if they did exactly what they were instructed to do); a masterfully crafted handmade item that has had great care taken to ensure that it has durability, quality, and strength build into it will last decades as long as all of the materials used in the making of that item were selected to meet that objective.  I have wallets that are still in use today that I made back in the early 1980's and they are still the original stitching.  That is possible because I used the correct weight of leather and the stitching thread was properly selected for the project to ensure that I gave my customer a finished item that will have a useful life that will span far further than anything else they could get from other sources.  A professional craftsman determines the life of the item by the selection of materials, supporting supplies (thread, lace, dyes, etc.), and the techniques and skills employed to make the item; there is no "standard life span" of any item regardless of what may be read on the Internet.  We control the quality and results of success, not some "industry standard" that some genius brews up in their head.