leather bottel

[maddhatter]

thanks for the info on the bottle mholzer this will really help out

stan

[tashabear]

Since you are sewing two pieces of leather together anyway... Could you wet mold the two pieces seperately and then sew them together? Why would you need to sew them first and then shape them with sand/ball bearings/corn kernals?

It seems you could wet mold your leather around any 3 diminsional object and then sew together to make "bottle". What am I not understanding about his how process?

It's easier to sew before it's molded. Also, you don't have any problems with fitting together two pieces that have been stretched separately, nor do you need to find a 3D object to mold around. You sew the bottel, *then* wet and stretch it by filling it with whatever (sand, unpopped popcorn, plastic bags, what have you). And in the end, it's quicker to stretch two pieces at once, after they're sewn, than to stretch one, then the other, then pull one off the mold, then the other, then sew them together, hoping that they match.

[Peter Ellis]

Since you are sewing two pieces of leather together anyway... Could you wet mold the two pieces seperately and then sew them together? Why would you need to sew them first and then shape them with sand/ball bearings/corn kernals?

It seems you could wet mold your leather around any 3 diminsional object and then sew together to make "bottle". What am I not understanding about his how process?

Honestly, because it's easier to match two pieces and stitch them together then stretch them out than it is to match two pieces that have been formed separately and stitch them together. For example, I don't know how the heck I would sew the seam on my Boss if the pieces are pre-formed, but when I'm just stitching flat seams on flat leather, it's no problem.