Chuck shows you ways to avoid simple mistakes while leathercrafting. Several tips and tricks concering stitching, punching and much more. These tips are sure to be helpful in your leatherworking journey.
Poly Cutting Board
Master Tools Edge Beveler
Leathercraft Cement
The Leather Element: Adding a Liner to Your Leather Project
Adding a liner to your leather projects opens a world of possibilities! A liner can be used to add a pop of color to your product or maybe you just need to double up on your leather to reach the desired thickness needed for your project. Either way, lining leather is a simple process and as Chuck says ” the sky is the limit”! In this video, Chuck lines a pouch with some of our new pigskin lining leather.
The Leather Element: 7 Shop Tricks, Part 2
In part two of Chuck’s shop tricks, we get some pointers and tips from how to recycle dull blades to storing everything you need to dye leather in a small space! We hope this is helpful information and gives you some good tips for your shop!
The Leather Element: Thread, Needles & Chisels
We’ve gotten a lot of questions about what thread to use with what needle and which size chisels to use on what project, so in this video, Chuck is covering all of those questions! We’ve just added some new sizes of Ritza Tiger Thread to our line and Chuck shows the best size needles to use with the different sizes of thread and also shows how each one looks once stitched. We hope this answers your questions and gives you some insight into what will work best for your project!
Shop Ritza Tiger Thread
John James Needles
Flat Stitching Chisels
Diamond Stitching Chisels
The Leather Element: Which Leather Should I Use For My Project?
One of our most asked questions from people just getting started in leathercraft is “what leather should I buy or use for a specific project”? There are a lot of ways to go to answer this question, so we took seven basic projects and Chuck breaks down the leather to two options that will work nicely for each project. We hope this helps answer some of your questions and makes it easier to pick the perfect leather for your project.
Leather shown in this video:
Belts: Natural veg tan double shoulder
Natural veg-tan belt blank
Water Buffalo Single Bend
Water Buffalo Belt Blank
Bracelets:
Chrome Tanned Pull-Up Leather
Crazy Horse Water Buffalo Side
Arm Guards:
Single Shoulder
Suede
Holsters
Veg Tan Single Shoulder 4/5 oz. or 8/9 oz.
Panel
Holster Leather
Wallets:
Veg tan 2/3 oz. and 3/4 oz.
Chrome Tan
Purses and Bags:
Lexi Top Grain
Pines Milled
Boot Straps:
Telfair Pebble Grain
Santa Rosa Pull-Up