Hair-On Deer Hide Suggestions

[Rbarleatherworks]

Check out Bob Blea's last post

I just came across it and it has hair on hide inserts for a wallet.... that might give you some idea's.

hth ... Regan

[TargetRockLeather]

10 hours ago, toxo said:

My guess is it would look awesome if you took some dog clippers to it. practice on a scrap piece, gradually clipping shorter until you get the best look. I think a hairy look rather than furry would be the way to go.

 

7 hours ago, RockyAussie said:

If it is of any help I found that you can use the electric hair cutting trimmers with the different plastic spacers to trim the hair down to a lesser height and it works not too badly. Over here they call them buzz cuts I think. I'm not sure as I have been cutting my own hair with scissors for many many years and that's pretty rare as well.

toxo, RockyAussie: I gave that a try. It works as far as making the hair shorter and more manageable, however the moment I trimmed the outermost layer of hair, it immediately lost the beautiful brown coloration and glossy fur look. The piece I ended up with might have well been squirrel hide lol. I'm uploading a picture of what I ended up with when I tried buzz trimming the fur. The piece on the left is obviously the trimmed piece.

2 hours ago, Rbarleatherworks said:

Check out Bob Blea's last post

I just came across it and it has hair on hide inserts for a wallet.... that might give you some idea's.

hth ... Regan

I found the post you are referring to. Yes, that looks like something I should try. I like the idea a lot. Thanks for pointing that out!

 

[toxo]

For me I'd go further. How about clipping a bit more to get it even all over then really short down the middle so when you fold it they'll be a longer fringe around the outside curve? Just a thought. Don't shoot me

[TargetRockLeather]

In case anyone is interested, this is what I came up with. I went with the inlay approach. It's not great but it was a good learning experience. I don't think I would attempt it again unless it's for a larger item. Thanks for all of the suggestions!

 

[Rockoboy]

It looks like you have a perfectly functional item there. With the benefit of 20/20/ hindsight, if I was making the sheath, I would have made the inlay, the same shape as the front piece of the sheath.

Maybe the hair could be shaped a little to make the bottom end of the hair not so square-cut. Maybe its just me being ultra-picky on a nice job.

[TargetRockLeather]

2 hours ago, Rockoboy said:

It looks like you have a perfectly functional item there. With the benefit of 20/20/ hindsight, if I was making the sheath, I would have made the inlay, the same shape as the front piece of the sheath.

Maybe the hair could be shaped a little to make the bottom end of the hair not so square-cut. Maybe its just me being ultra-picky on a nice job.

By all means be picky. That's how we learn! I actually had the same thought. The reason I made the bottom square and not all the way at the bottom of the sheath is that I thought the hair would look better flowing across the leather rather than hanging beyond the bottom of the sheath. In hindsight, as you said, continuing the shape of the sheath toward the bottom would have looked better.

Also I know that the edges of my leather are uneven. I admit that I rushed through it because I was just experimenting. I tore it apart and put it back together a couple of times so the the edges of the leather got a little beat up.

Thanks for the feedback!