Latest card holder

[Hardrada]

12 hours ago, Danne said:

It's 0.5mm and 0.9mm (Everything is lined except card pockets) 

And I'm guessing you made the card pockets out of the 0.9mm?

[Danne]

6 minutes ago, Hardrada said:

And I'm guessing you made the card pockets out of the 0.9mm?

Yes the card pockets are 0.9mm. If I had access to a band knife splitter so I could split myself I would make them slightly thinner and fully lined. Probably around 0.4+0.3mm (And no skiving on the edges of the pockets) but instead skive some parts of the "base" of the card sections. (Under the cards) Construction can be hard. Where to skive, and how much and still keep the product durable? and one construction might work with one type of leather but not with another leather. 

[blue duck]

Very impressive. Proof that practice does make perfect. 

[Danne]

2 minutes ago, blue duck said:

Very impressive. Proof that practice does make perfect. 

Thank you blue duck. But not perfect. But finally I will be there or close to at least

[AzShooter]

Most excellent. Edges are beautiful and so is the stitching.  I hope I can come close to having mine look like that.

[Danne]

5 hours ago, AzShooter said:

Most excellent. Edges are beautiful and so is the stitching.  I hope I can come close to having mine look like that.

Thank you. 

[MG513]

On 11/27/2020 at 3:34 AM, Danne said:

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you,

It's 0.5mm and 0.9mm (Everything is lined except card pockets) 

This looks great! When you say it’s lined, what is it lined with?? I’d imagine it’s not another piece of leather otherwise that would defeat the purpose of splitting so thin to begin with

[Hardrada]

4 hours ago, MG513 said:

This looks great! When you say it’s lined, what is it lined with?? I’d imagine it’s not another piece of leather otherwise that would defeat the purpose of splitting so thin to begin with

I'm sure @Danne will elaborate, but you can see in the third picture that it is indeed lined with leather—with the chevre.

One reason for splitting so thin is so that you can glue two pieces of the same leather back to back and have grain on both sides—instead of grain on front, flesh on back, kinda like what they do with lined belts. Having grain on both sides makes the item more durable and way more aesthetically appealing.

[MG513]

3 hours ago, Hardrada said:

I'm sure @Danne will elaborate, but you can see in the third picture that it is indeed lined with leather—with the chevre.

One reason for splitting so thin is so that you can glue two pieces of the same leather back to back and have grain on both sides—instead of grain on front, flesh on back, kinda like what they do with lined belts. Having grain on both sides makes the item more durable and way more aesthetically appealing.

Thanks a lot for your reply! I was able to go through some other post and someone else had asked a similar question, so now that I think of it that totally makes sense! This way your not stuck with the flesh side of the leather on the inside panels which over time are bound to catch lint and debri. I’m going to have to get a skiver to pull this type of construction off though...
 

thanks!

[Danne]

15 hours ago, MG513 said:

This looks great! When you say it’s lined, what is it lined with?? I’d imagine it’s not another piece of leather otherwise that would defeat the purpose of splitting so thin to begin with

 

10 hours ago, Hardrada said:

I'm sure @Danne will elaborate, but you can see in the third picture that it is indeed lined with leather—with the chevre.

One reason for splitting so thin is so that you can glue two pieces of the same leather back to back and have grain on both sides—instead of grain on front, flesh on back, kinda like what they do with lined belts. Having grain on both sides makes the item more durable and way more aesthetically appealing.

 

Yes, just like Hardrada said, it's lined with chevre. I'm certainly no leather expert, but the strongest part of the leather is the grain. And there is no problem to make a leather in 1mm goat leather (no lining) but if I instead line the pocket and use two layers of 0.5mm leather  it will be stronger, and of course stretch less, so the wallet interior will keep it's shape better, and just like Hardrada also said it look better.