Shop apron.

[Hardrada]

Nice piece there!

I've always wanted to make myself an apron—I even got the pattern for one—but the amount of leather required makes it prohibitive.

 

[fredk]

Nice, but why dye it? Its good just as it is

[Hags]

Dye from working on projects! Thanks guys.  The cost is somewhat ameliorated by getting the lighter weight stuff when it's on sale. Usually black Friday stuff. I think I got that side for $65 and free shipping. I don't use much of it, but like to have some around for straps and the occasional bag. 

[fredk]

41 minutes ago, Hags said:

Dye from working on projects! . . . 

oh, gotch ya now,  

[JayEhl]

On 12/5/2021 at 2:34 PM, Hardrada said:

I've always wanted to make myself an apron—I even got the pattern for one—but the amount of leather required makes it prohibitive.

Springfield leather had a pretty good sale on a half cow, all black.  Wouldn't have been my first choice for a color for an apron but hey, for $65, I decided to go for it.   Interestingly enough, that same day i went by Harbor Freight and they had these denim apron also on sale for $5 so I thought that would make a great guide/template for mine.  

[Hags]

That works! Pretty much what I did. 

[Samalan]

Nice work!   but I have always made my aprons so they will pull off just incase if caught in a machine when I was a young man my neighbor lost his testicles because of a loose apron. So now all of my connections are Velcro you can still get the look with buckles and all that but Velcro at the hard connection points.

[JayEhl]

1 hour ago, Samalan said:

lost his testicles because of a loose apron

 

1 hour ago, Samalan said:

all of my connections are Velcro

notes to self in designing shop aprons..... velcro is a great design option 

[Samalan]

40 minutes ago, JayEhl said:

 

notes to self in designing shop aprons..... velcro is a great design option 

It may not really be Necessary like the seat belts in your car I've been driving for fifty years and haven't needed them yet, . when people say why do you carry a gun they say you don't need a gun I tell them your right I don't until I do. Glad to see you were thinking about it .

[Hags]

I dont have any machinery that could possibly grab this. I guess I could climb up on the cobra class 3, but not likely. Not a machine shop..