First "classy" wallet

[datdraku]

Exterior is Horween essex, Interior is Chevre sully, the wallet is fully lined.  My first fine wallet, made it for myself, and plan to make a few in different color combinations for sale

[JazzBass]

Wow, classy is right! The fine stitching is beautiful. Nice work!

[bdpeters]

looks great, the stitching is superb

[datdraku]

1 hour ago, JazzBass said:

Wow, classy is right! The fine stitching is beautiful. Nice work!

 

1 hour ago, bdpeters said:

looks great, the stitching is superb

Thanks!

[battlemunky]

That looks great. I could easily see some rich dude pull that out of a suitcoat pocket to pay for some really good scotch.

[datdraku]

 

45 minutes ago, battlemunky said:

That looks great. I could easily see some rich dude pull that out of a suitcoat pocket to pay for some really good scotch.

Thanks! For now my middle class eastern european ass is using it to buy beer.

[Stetson912]

Very nice! Did you birnish the edges? I'm not familiar with the Sully but I thought it was veg tan. And in my experience, I run my wood slicker over the corners when I nip them like that. It rounds them out pretty nice. Awesome work!

[datdraku]

14 minutes ago, Stetson912 said:

Very nice! Did you birnish the edges? I'm not familiar with the Sully but I thought it was veg tan. And in my experience, I run my wood slicker over the corners when I nip them like that. It rounds them out pretty nice. Awesome work!

It's combinatin tanned I think. So it does not burnish. I painted the edges with Fiebings edge paint. Not 100% happy about the restut, need to practice more

[Alexis1234]

Beautiful! Very neat and clean stitching

[datdraku]

 

25 minutes ago, Alexis1234 said:

Beautiful! Very neat and clean stitching

Thank you!

[immiketoo]

Very fine work!

[datdraku]

1 hour ago, immiketoo said:

Very fine work!

Thanks! There is room for improvement, I hope the next one will be better.

[benlilly1]

Perfection!

[YinTx]

Very elegant, well done.  Look forward to seeing more!

YinTx

[datdraku]

3 hours ago, benlilly1 said:

Perfection!

Thanks!

2 hours ago, YinTx said:

Very elegant, well done.  Look forward to seeing more!

YinTx

Thank you! Next one will be black exterior and turquoise interior.

[bikermutt07]

Fancy with a touch of schmancy.

Good job.

[battlemunky]

23 hours ago, datdraku said:

 

Thanks! For now my middle class eastern european ass is using it to buy beer.

Best answer EVAR!

[rodneywt1180b]

Really nice wallet!

[Boondoggle]

VERY nice.  I like the mitered corners and quality stitching. 

[kyrrk]

The edges looks great. what's the thickness of the leathers you used there?

[LeatherLegion]

On 05/12/2018 at 9:47 AM, datdraku said:

 

Thanks! For now my middle class eastern european ass is using it to buy beer.

Hai Noroc !!!

[datdraku]

3 hours ago, LeatherLegion said:

Hai Noroc !!!

Ha ha, sanatate!

[Danne]

On 2018-12-05 at 4:05 PM, datdraku said:

It's combinatin tanned I think. So it does not burnish. I painted the edges with Fiebings edge paint. Not 100% happy about the restut, need to practice more

 

Your wallet is really nice. Very clean work. You say you are not 100% happy about the edge result, and I think it's because of your choice of edge paint. I would recommend you to use some of these. Fenice, Vernis 600, Beraud CT, Stahl, Uniters, Giardini. Personally, I prefer Fenice, but Uniters seems very popular. But I stay with Fenice since I'm used to that paint and I get decent results. If you decide one of these and need help to find it in Europe, just ask and I give you some links/recommendations. (Disclaimer: Vernis600 is really good but have a rather short shelf life, around a year or so.)

Edited February 10, 2019 by Danne
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[datdraku]

11 minutes ago, Danne said:

 

Your wallet is really nice. Very clean work. You say you are not 100% happy about the edge result, and I think it's because of your choice of edge paint. I would recommend you to use some of these. Fenice, Vernis 600, Beraud CT, Stahl, Uniters, Giardini. Personally, I prefer Fenice, but Uniters seems very popular. But I stay with Fenice since I'm used to that paint and I get decent results. If you decide one of these and need help to find it in Europe, just ask and I give you some links/recommendations. (Disclaimer: Vernis600 is really good but have a rather short shelf life, around a year or so.)

Thanks! And thanks for the recomandations!

I bought Fenice since then, used it on the other 2 wallets I posted here. Much better!

[seabee]

Hi,  Those wallets are very nice.  What thread size, and spi. are you using?  Your stitching is,  great.

Thanks for sharing.

Seabee