Making a bifold wallet (Updates with pictures during progress)

[Danne]

Card pockets assembled:

Edited September 2, 2020 by Danne

[Spyros]

perfect.

[Danne]

2 minutes ago, Spyros said:

perfect.

Thanks. Did a typo. Card pockets are not finished yet, next step is to crease and paint edges. But they are assembled

[Spyros]

your unpainted edges probably look better than my painted ones LOL

[Danne]

2 minutes ago, Spyros said:

your unpainted edges probably look better than my painted ones LOL

Your edges would probably look just as good or better if you spent the time i've spent practice edge painting

[RockyAussie]

That is some unbelievably great skiving shown here and I hope one day you can show the technique to all here.

[Danne]

5 hours ago, RockyAussie said:

That is some unbelievably great skiving shown here and I hope one day you can show the technique to all here.

I don't think I use any special technique, I skive with the bevel down so it works like a "fulcrum point", if I want to skive feather thin, I first skive from let's say 1mm to 0.5mm, and I increase the angle so it's close to feather thin, and finish with a small skive to take the rest.

The problem here is with medium soft leather like sully, it really requires the knife to be RAZOR sharp. So sharpening and I can strop my knife through a project like this. If I would do this professionaly I might need skiving knives with better knife retention when working with softer leather. for veg tan I can skive a lot of leather before it needs to be resharpened, and the reason is because when I do the sawing motion in veg tan (Not really soft veg tan though) I can put a little bit of pressure on the knife, which I can't on softer leather, then it stretches and the result is either skiving through or uneven skiving or not a clean edge of the skive.

[Danne]

Pockets stitched, and final? coat of edge paint is drying:

[paloma]

very clean work!

[Danne]

9 minutes ago, paloma said:

very clean work!

Thank you,

Soon finished, top stitched and pockets glued in place. Always a nervous moment to glue pockets in place since I have planned very well how much need to be trimmed off the bottom and edge. 

Top edge stitched:

The white in the right upper corner transition is just some glue I haven't cleaned up yet.