Thread: leather

i had an order for a leather journal cover so i thought i would extend it a little with a few scraps of chrome tanned leather off cuts

19mm wad punch to cut out the circles then a 7mm wad punch to make them into leather washers, well thats what everyone thought i was making

the bits on either end are Red Gum, this was used mainly to compress the leather in the vice

leather is fibrous and flexible, it takes very sharp tools to cut if not stabilized, i didn't stabilize until i got close to the final size, CA glue works well for this

i was happy with the result although a bit rough, but i will give it another go on the weekend to get a better result, might even try with some veg tanned leather to see if that works better

thanks for looking
MIK