Lots of tooled belt pouches

[AlexOstacchini]

Hi all, 

Had some time to spend on my own stuff again, so here are some Western style wet moulded belt pouches. Hand tooled and stitched, with matching liners and sam browne stud closures. All the same except for colours, so a good exercise in batch production. Quite fun and relatively quick to make compared to a belt or bag. After a bit of reading I think that in hindsight stitching across the belt loop was not the best idea in terms of strength but as these are small and won't be taking any substantial weight I don't think it will be a problem.

Cheers and I hope you like them, Alex

[Rohn]

Beautifully done!

[YinTx]

Those are really neat!  What are they intended to hold?

YinTx

[garypl]

Alex, those are beautiful pouches.  What type leather are you using?

Gary

[AlexOstacchini]

2 hours ago, YinTx said:

Those are really neat!  What are they intended to hold?

Thanks, nothing in particular, keys, coins, etc, any small item really. It's the kind of thing people might have on their belts for archery/bushcrafty type things, so any associated gubbins I suppose. Unfortunately too small for most phones now... 

29 minutes ago, garypl said:

What type leather are you using

2.5ish mm veg tan backed with thin floppy upholstery type stuff that I have scraps of in abundance. 

 

Thanks for the kind words

[mikesc]

Beautiful work.. :)

[rleather]

What's not to like? Great job , love the depth of the tooling.

[farns005]

Very nice!  What did you use for dyeing?

[AlexOstacchini]

33 minutes ago, farns005 said:

What did you use for dyeing

Thanks, fiebings pro dyes followed by neetsfoot oil and tan kote- going across they are black, dark brown, british tan, mahogany, and saddle tan. The tooling is just neetsfoot oil, with tan kote as the resist and dark brown antique paste

cheers!

Alex

Edited July 4, 2019 by AlexOstacchini

[GrampaJoel]

That's some nice consistency you have there!

Very clean work.

how did you mold the pouches?

[LederRudi]

9 hours ago, GrampaJoel said:

That's some nice consistency you have there!

Very clean work.

how did you mold the pouches?

Same here. 

[AlexOstacchini]

13 hours ago, GrampaJoel said:

how did you mold the pouches

 

3 hours ago, LederRudi said:

Same here.

 

For these I built a wooden former to stretch them over. Soaked the leather for 20+ minutes followed by lots of pushing pressing fun with a bone folder and then clamped them in and left overnight to set. 

[Rohn]

This is good information. Thanks for sharing it.

[LederRudi]

2 minutes ago, Rohn said:

This is good information. Thanks for sharing it.

Same here again! Thanks for the info!

[BlakesBlades]

Those are all gorgeous! Nicely done.

I just looked at them again, and really like the X stitch on the tongue. 

I really need to learn how to carve leather.

Edited July 6, 2019 by BlakesBlades

[Toddo]

Beautiful pouches. Etsy would make a good home for those. (is Etsy in the UK?).

You could use those for lots of things like trail kits. Fire starter kits. Small first aid kits etc.

[splinters]

Alex, very, very nice work. Thanks for sharing with us and also sharing your wet form and explanation. Want to go there some day so always interested in wet form approaches. All the best.

Edited July 13, 2019 by splinters