How to make leather goods videos

[chrisash]

How much of a croc skin is used for leather work and what happens to the rest?

[RockyAussie]

1 hour ago, chrisash said:

How much of a croc skin is used for leather work and what happens to the rest?

These jewellery pieces I designed to use the same size inset piece being about a 20x10mm oval. After that its into the bin.

Not duckin this question

Bracelets

Cufflinks

Drop earrings and pendant

[RockyAussie]

8 hours ago, mikesc said:

Was watching a "re-run" of a 2011 French documentary last night on French PSB channel 5  ( while reading this thread, and Ferg's thread ), about Crocodiles , "Le crocodile du Nil après l'eden" about Nile Crocodiles ( and they covered various other Crocodilia too )..Very interesting, lot of people there and elsewhere have them as pets in ponds in their gardens or houses..Some even in what looked like bath tubs : ) Recorded it in case I miss it when it comes around again..Caught a few screen shots of a group of schoolchildren being introduced to one of "the more tame ones" ( apparently she has only ever bitten other crocs ..One little girl ( who has probably grown up since 2011 to become the Croc Skin Buyer For Hérmes ) was perfectly happy to walk over and sit on on the "tame" female Croc..She looks like she is picking out the best part for a handbag when she grows up.

 

Then this morning I read your "bathroom experience" Brian ..Thought you might appreciate this image ..

Thanks Mike that would be an interesting documentary to see for sure. I have seen a fella over here does some stuff like that called the "Bare Foot Bushman" . He reckons you gotta be careful not to step on their feet cause they will bite you. He has bin bit a few times as I recall.

 I will have to tell you about an aboriginal friend Claton) that has worked with crocs for many years and told me more about how they clean out the breeding ponds every year or so. After most of the crock are removed they have to find and get rid of any lagers.The importance of not stepping on their feet becomes pretty evident. I asked how do they go about doing this and he explained how they go through the dirty water ponds and feel around with their bare feet carefully moving along and up the croc being careful not to step on their feet and toward the head. Once the get to the head with a thick hessian bag they slide it down untill the eye teeth are located and then grab their mouth together and pull them up and out. I said well if I had to do that job I would be the last in line. He laughed at me and I though him a bit mad and he went on to explain that he always went first. What..????. yeah  when I feel a real big one.. I keep on going and leave it for the fellas behind me.

[chrisash]

But what about those large lumps and armoured parts on the tail

[mikesc]

 

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But what about those large lumps and armoured parts on the tail

Brian would maybe have to ask Claton to be sure ? But I'd imagine that the idea is not to step on their tails, they can reach round very fast to their tails with the toothy end.

[Sangrati]

9 hours ago, RockyAussie said:

Interesting idea but some further examples may be necessary. I would have thought that being in Dubai would present a good market place for example.

Dubai can be a good market.  As it is a gateway to Gulf.  But limiting to Dubai will limit us.  What I mean is a miniature ebay or say etsy.  But what is different here is that I am not thinking of running it as a pure market place.  What I think is that we setup an echo system. Where only leather products are sold and sellers help each other in design, workman ship same as they do here on this platform.

  In fact what I mean is that we add a show case of products for all the people participating on this platform.  This will consolidate all the scattered sellers on one place and bring an international exposure to everyone. As a result there will be an increase in over all demand.  Similarly Designs can be made and done in places where labour cost is less.  Frankly speaking, I can do it as an individual as I have e-commerce companies both in UK and Singapore. But what I envision here is a platform where masters of leather craft contribute to the overall product quality enhancement and the platform becomes one stop shop and a platform where for everything about leather is authentic.  Where product matters not the label.  Where product sold on platform itself is a quality certification. 

Please share your thoughts on it and let us discuss about the viability of this idea. In case we think that this is a valid and viable idea and people agree (at least a few in the beginning) then I already have a domain name booked for this project.

 

Regards

Sangrati

[mikesc]

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Please share your thoughts on it and let us discuss about the viability of this idea. In case we think that this is a valid and viable idea and people agree (at least a few in the beginning) then I already have a domain name booked for this project.

my 2cts..not viable, nor required, those of us in business** are doing just fine and don't require any intermediaries between us and our customers..There is more to Ecom than registering a domain name and some limited companies.Those who produce high quality goods already, do not need certification by a new "platform" which ( and the person "setting it ups" in this case you )obviously would like to be taking it's/ their "cut" of any sales.The hobbyists ( Hey Brian, my system thinks that is an OK spelling ) already have Etsy et al. The "leather industry" has many national and international bodies, some of us are members of some of them..Another "trade / directory / platform" that wants people to join so it can take a cut of what they sell their work for ? ..Nope.. I'll pass..I used to get spammed by that kind of thing daily via emails ( and occasionally via "snail mail" *), before I set up my own mail server and had them black holed or bounced.

 

*Still get some snail mail ones..use them to light the fire, just like all the other "I can make you rich" junk mail.

**Speaking for myself here..others in business already may differ, but I sincerely doubt it.

Edited August 22, 2019 by mikesc

[Sangrati]

1 hour ago, mikesc said:

1.      Those who produce high quality goods already, do not need certification by a new "platform" which ( and the person "setting it ups" in this case you )obviously would like to be taking it's/ their "cut" of any sales.

2.      Another "trade / directory / platform" that wants people to join so it can take a cut of what they sell their work for ? ..Nope.. I'll pass..I used to get spammed by that kind of thing daily via emails ( and occasionally via "snail mail" *), before I set up my own mail server and had them black holed or bounced.

3.     Still get some snail mail ones..use them to light the fire, just like all the other "I can make you rich" junk mail.

Thanks for your detailed email. I will address your concerns one by one.

1.    Yes I do agree that the those producing high quality goods do not need a certification.  What I meant is those who are capable could help on the platform to those who are not so apt at the art and not let them release goods until they meet the standard.  and thus goods sold on this platform are guaranteed to be high standard. I nowhere mentioned that I will take a cut of any sales. In fact I mentioned that Etsy etc is already doing that.

2 .    I did not propose the owner ship of platform to my self or said that I have a platform and want people to list products and give me cut.  For that I already own few E commerce platforms and that model is far too easy than what I proposed here.  What I was suggesting is Co-owner ship of the platform.  Ahh But you suddenly took me out of dream world.

3.    Rather than making people rich, I am thinking of enriching the work experience.  I am thinking of creating an echo system where people co operate to compete and where people collaborate to innovate.

Regards

Sangrati

[JLSleather]

Oooo... in the sequel the daughter of the woman run down with the car, who never got to know Mom at all, now makes a living tracking down bilge rat scum who run over gals carrying fancy handbags, ... WAIT... that certainly took a turn for the weird  

But after 50 posts, how many actually addressed teh question ... who would be interested in video(s) aimed at increasing production/profit?  Jus sayin'.. any detraction from the original post was NOT me.

 

[Sangrati]

1 minute ago, JLSleather said:

But after 50 posts, how many actually addressed teh question ... who would be interested in video(s) aimed at increasing production/profit?  Jus sayin'.. any detraction from the original post was NOT me.

 

Perhaps, I am interested but being too junior in leather craft and yet to complete a use able wallet in real sense find myself wondering what can I do?

By profession I am a management accountant and costing has been my subject but process standardisation and output optimisation is something which I never had my hands on.  Though had seen a sugar mill where the engineers were able to increase the production 60% by tweaking the processes.

By accounting rule books, we calculate cost of production in terms of Material, labour and factory overheads.  Now the mechanisation and output optimisation does not come directly under our scope of work.  But we can analyse the data and suggest some choices between different methods.

Regards

Sangrati