Over the last couple of weeks I’ve made quite a few more small leather things. Whenever I needed something, I tried to make it. So here’s another small leather projects post!
This is a plough plane I picked up at a flea market a couple of weeks ago. It was in pretty good shape, just a bit rusty and dirty. And it had a lacquer on it that I didn’t like, and some parts had dried up glue stuck on them. Other than that, it looked […]
If you follow my blog, you know I’ve picked up leatherworking recently. I like it because it’s a lot faster than most woodworking I do and requires fewer tools and little workspace. I’ve worked with fabric a couple of times too, and thought it would be fun to combine the two in a project. It […]
Normally, I buy old, neglected tools and refurbish them. It’s cheap, and it makes me feel like I saved something from going to waste, or even like I conserved a piece of history. Conserving a piece of history can take a lot of elbow grease, though. I don’t use power tools to grind or sand, […]
I’ve always been fascinated by leather. Well made leather items can last for ages. A friend of mine has an old satchel from the Amsterdamse Spaarbank (Amsterdam Savings Bank) in Art Nouveau style that must be a hundred years old, which is in great condition and she still uses. Leather is a versatile material that […]
I bought this stanley #66 beading scraper a while back. It only cost me a couple of euro’s but it was missing its fence and only had one scraper blade included. Otherwise, it was in great shape. I haven’t been able to date the thing exactly, but I read that it was probably made somewhere […]
I’ve been working leather for a while now, mainly making sheathes and cases for my tools. They were intended to be functional, not pretty. Recently I’ve been trying to make some prettier things out of leather too, such as a case for my Nexus 7. To make clean lines and sow neatly and cleanly, I […]
