Members DJole Posted February 7, 2021 Members Report Posted February 7, 2021 I have a phone case that I made, which a fellow worker admired very much. She recently asked if I could make her and her husband phone cases in a similar design. So today I finally got hers done, except for the final coat of SuperShene. This is a wet mold, around a wooden form made to the dimensions of her Samsung phone that is a bit larger than her actual phone. (I took the molded leather in to her earlier to make absolutely sure that her phone fits it, and it does.) This is my second wet mold project (the first is her husband's case, which is still half done.) You can see the bottom fold where the leather was folded over itself and then molded around the wooden form. `I used 2mm thick veg tan, dyed with Angelus Ox Blood (her choice), with clear Tokonole on the edges. That burnished edge turned out astoundingly good, thanks to various forum posts on the topic. The one picture taken on the brown background (my computer desk, where I do all my stitching!) shows the edges before I trimmed them to size and burnished them. The thread is Tiger Ritza 0.6, Bordeaux color (from Rocky Mountain Leather Suppy), saddle stitched using John James 002 needles and an Osborne stitching awl. I used 4 mm pricking irons which I picked up from Amazon, then spent some time sanding and polishing to smooth the tooling marks on the teeth. I think I did a pretty good job here-- only a few things I know which are problematic. I showed her some pictures in progress and she was quite excited. Hopefully she loves the finished product. Quote
Members Retswerb Posted February 8, 2021 Members Report Posted February 8, 2021 Nice job! I’m sure it will be a hit. Quote
Members JayEhl Posted February 8, 2021 Members Report Posted February 8, 2021 Not too many oxblood cell phone holders out there. I think the red will make it a conversation piece. Well done. Quote
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