1977 camera bag for my wood carving tools

[Rossr]

So does anyone else get down a serious rabbit hole?  Like you know there are a lot of more pressing matters but hey I need to make this bag like now.  

 

I give you my rabbit hole the last few days.  I wanted to make a bag to keep some wood carving tools. I play around spoon carving.  I'm tired of the gallon zip lock bag. So I keep looking at my books and got flipping through a box of leather magazines and  found a 1977 make it with leather article and pattern for a camera bag.  

I modified it and added velcro for top closure and only used veg tan and tooled the ends.  I love the oil tan look but find it almost impossible to glue the liner in place etc.  Thankfully sewing still works!

 

The oak leave pattern was in the magazine and is derived from stohlman how to carve leather.  The deer and oak leaves is a Jim Linnell design(I hope I did it justice as it's no where near the work Jim has on his website).  The feather I messed around myself with, mainly there to cover up a leather blemish but I thought it flowed well.  

Double loop lace.

 

I stitched two velcro strips inside and will make some dividers and a tool holder .

 

Open to any constructive criticism.  This is one of the largest projects I've attempted and overall I'm pleased with the outcome.  It's way over kill for some carving tools and some wood blocks. But hey that's why we do this stuff right for the love and joy of it!  

Happy New year everyone. 

 

 

[kiwican]

Wow. Gotta say..some of your best work yet! Love it

[Rossr]

16 minutes ago, kiwican said:

Wow. Gotta say..some of your best work yet! Love it

Thank you sir!

[Rohn]

That is absolutely beautiful. Real nice work.

[Scoutmom103]

Very nice.   What a bag to keep your carving tools and some wood in.

 

[chuck123wapati]

Thats a great looking bag

[Rossr]

2 hours ago, Scoutmom103 said:

Very nice.   What a bag to keep your carving tools and some wood in.

 

I may have went a tad overboard .  Thank you 

2 minutes ago, chuck123wapati said:

Thats a great looking bag

Thank you sir

[AlexOstacchini]

lovely stuff, echo everything that's been said really. Looks like a good few hours of lacing there

Can definitely relate to the rabbit hole feeling... 

Also very jealous of workbench setup  I want one

[toxo]

Good job. I like the turned out handles.

[Rossr]

9 hours ago, Rohn said:

That is absolutely beautiful. Real nice work.

Thanks!

 

4 hours ago, AlexOstacchini said:

lovely stuff, echo everything that's been said really. Looks like a good few hours of lacing there

Can definitely relate to the rabbit hole feeling... 

Also very jealous of workbench setup  I want one

That just an old wood desk I picked up on the cheap.(I see them listed a lot on craigslist cheap)  Some of the tool holders I made some came from buying stamps off ebay etc.  The stone o got somewhere I'm not even sure what it is could be thicker but seems to work fine.

Yep lacing took a bit as did the carving too but always fun to be down the rabbit hole!

Thanks for the kind words

 

2 hours ago, toxo said:

Good job. I like the turned out handles.

Thanks toxo, my son suggested it and it came out well imo