Someone in Oz to take my 2mm veg split FREE

[RockyAussie]

I HATE waste but I am running out of ideas on how to use up enough of this left over split leather for belt backing. I use quite a lot up in fillers for my dress belts for which they are most excellent but I have now thousands of these strips and they will have to be dumped if nobody wants them. This last lot of 787 I just finished is 40mm wide by average 2mm thick. It could be used for making up door mats or dog beds if you dabble with wood making as well, but both of these are out of my normal marketing areas.

I could re cut to a preferred size if wanted for very little $

Or split thinner as well

This is my next lot of dress belt fillers I am working on at the moment (tutorial in progress)

Here they are shown attached to the backings

This is where some of the last lot are used (Wife's idea).....

I am running out of tractor tyres HELP (THIS IS NOT FUNNY)

Brian

[chrisash]

Maybe a arts college would find a use for them, especially fashion design etc or crafts

[RockyAussie]

5 minutes ago, chrisash said:

Maybe a arts college would find a use for them, especially fashion design etc or crafts

Thanks @chrisash. I'm not sure if there is much around here in Rocky but I might contact the Uni here and see.

[Chain]

The Art Gallery there might be able to point you in the right direction

[Matt S]

Glue and stitch back-to-back to make low-cost "rough out" belts? Maybe not good enough for Wild Harry but if you could produce them fast enough they'd be plenty strong enough for a lower-price leather belt.

[chrisash]

Depending on the lengths you could scarf them together and make those fly screens for doors where they hang down in strips and keep flying insects out, I seem to remember you have the odd fly in Australia or alternatively sell as leather straps to wrap around garden tools like spades and fork handles

[YinTx]

Hopefully the uni can use them.... any group doing arts stuff... scouts.. retirement homes...churches...

 

smaller strips and weave em together for floor matts...

YinTx

[RockyAussie]

10 hours ago, Matt S said:

Glue and stitch back-to-back to make low-cost "rough out" belts? Maybe not good enough for Wild Harry but if you could produce them fast enough they'd be plenty strong enough for a lower-price leather belt.

Yea I like the idea but I already have orders going back over a year now and I was thinking that someone wanting to get a cheap start off might be able to make use of it. I could supply maybe 500 a month and I have a few thousand here all ready. They do weave together and look not too bad as well.

 

9 hours ago, chrisash said:

as leather straps to wrap around garden tools like spades and fork handles

I have not seen that before but maybe

7 hours ago, YinTx said:

Hopefully the uni can use them.... any group doing arts stuff... scouts.. retirement homes...churches...

 

smaller strips and weave em together for floor matts...

YinTx

Why smaller strips? They are just over 1 1/2" wide. I could strip them in half but that makes for twice as much weaving

I was tempted to make up a wooden rectangle out of some 3x2 and staple the strips across to make a weave then cover the top with a thinner piece of wood strip around the edges, Pop a few 6" legs in the inner corners and you have a flash looking dog bed. For anyone into doin dog collars it could be a good addition to the range.

11 hours ago, Chain said:

The Art Gallery there might be able to point you in the right direction

Thanks mate I will check them out. You know Townsville is only a 8 hour drive away.........if you are coming through sometime drop in for a chat  and a coffee.

[YinTx]

2 hours ago, RockyAussie said:

Why smaller strips? They are just over 1 1/2" wide. I could strip them in half but that makes for twice as much weaving

True that, you could just get to weavin, and stitch a binder strip around the edges, vioala area rug for the work room.  But my thinking was simply smaller strips might be more comfy.... If they are strong enough, you could weave chair backs out of them, etc...I like the dog bed idea... you could do lots of things in that path..

YinTx

[Aven]

Rocky, do you guys have youth organizations like boyscouts/girlscouts or a youth center that does arts and crafts?  The first thing that came to mind when I looked at them was that is a metric tonne of bookmarks.