Evolution of Leather Goods: Before and After Pictures

[rome1]

I'm not a big fan of their wallets, but I like my tanner belt. The leather is really soft after 4 mos. use.

[bye4now12]

i think tanner's stuff is not worth the money. i'd rather buy corters

I was on the fence between one of Corters regular belts and the Tanner one, Corter premiums looked wayyy too thick.

[corter]

no such thing as too thick! haha, I understand man, i'm pretty sure mine and tanners are similar, mine are completely hand cut. I haven't seen one after a few months though, I'd like to see how they age. Reminds me, I need to take a break from customs to get more regular belts made.

[SLAB]

those FlatHead wallets are amazing; wish I had the cash to get one of those

[Lars]

There was a picture of the inside of the belt a few pages back, but for some reason I forgot to post the fron.

Anyhow, I made this belt at the same time when I made my wallet, around 1.5 - 2 years ago.

I don´t have any before pictures, but the leather was like your average untreated leather wallet in color and it has darkened quite a bit. Also notice the amount of indigo on the inside.

[drapygo]

Anyone check out 'Gabor'? Have a variety of leather to choose from but pretty damn expensive...

[lupefiasco]

Small piece of leather with Sugar Cane logo came with the belt and shows original color.

[eldave04]

Red Moon at a year and a bit, tanner at 6 months. Red Moon has been treated with obenauf's repeatedly, and once with mink oil. Tanner has only been tanned and treated with obenauf's.

[dibadiba]

my handmade wallet, been using it for a couple weeks. oiled it with mink oil and left it outside today, it darkened a bit. the huge stain is from indigo loss that I got during a 2 hour bike ride. seat was wet, and the edge of my pocket lost a lot of indigo.

[robin_win]

it was in nudie right?

my handmade wallet, been using it for a couple weeks. oiled it with mink oil and left it outside today, it darkened a bit. the huge stain is from indigo loss that I got during a 2 hour bike ride. seat was wet, and the edge of my pocket lost a lot of indigo.

[dibadiba]

it was in nudie right?

yeah, regular ralf selvage

[poly800rock]

no such thing as too thick! haha, I understand man, i'm pretty sure mine and tanners are similar, mine are completely hand cut. I haven't seen one after a few months though, I'd like to see how they age. Reminds me, I need to take a break from customs to get more regular belts made.

for some reason i want to say that tanner is hand cut as well. or they used to be, that's why each belt was cut to order.

[jcotteri]

yeh they still are mate...well mine was anyway.. pity its stuck in customs...arrgh been waiting two weeks for it to arrive. Anyone had that problem? in ozzieland?

[jpgm]

yeh they still are mate...well mine was anyway.. pity its stuck in customs...arrgh been waiting two weeks for it to arrive. Anyone had that problem? in ozzieland?

noop....mine came within a week or so. hope it turns up soon dude.

[Tiro]

well these are the before pictures, got it in the mail today, not sure if I should tan the natural parts or not, since sunlight is kinda rare over here now...

[tmadd]

Here is a picture of my old wallet...its the original Nudie wallet, handmade by the folks at Jeanspaleis...this is one of the 50 that they made, a lot of them were given to the people at Nudie and ended up in a bunch of their look books. It's a lot nicer than the ones produced by Nudie.

And I got some better pics of the details of my Flat Head Wallet:

[40ozprophet]

beautiful pictures everyone! what color did that nudie wallet start as? any older pics?

[OptimaDies]

That Nudie wallet was seriously one of my favorites, I didn't know you were the owner! Will rep when it gets around; I'll send you those pictures soon, I promise

[tmadd]

beautiful pictures everyone! what color did that nudie wallet start as? any older pics?

That is the first picture I have taken of it...I wore it for a year and a few months. Let me see if I can dig up some pictures of what they looked like brand new.

[tmadd]

Wow, I actually didn't realize how much time changed this guy...I am impressed. The "new" pics are originally from Jeanspaleis via mynudies.com.

[OptimaDies]

beautiful pictures everyone! what color did that nudie wallet start as? any older pics?

That is the first picture I have taken of it...I wore it for a year and a few months. Let me see if I can dig up some pictures of what they looked like brand new.

Hmm. I'm guessing this wasn't yours tmadd, but this was the one I remember seeing (I don't remember to whom it belongs to or how old it is; will credit/correct if informed)

(the Jeanspaleis one looks overtanned, or at least the lighting is weird)

[tmadd]

I think I am going to try and really clean up the Nudie wallet...get rid of the indigo stains and such if possible. Anyone have any suggestions for a deep clean?

[khoiphan92]

[pikler]

I've never seen the Flat Head wallet in person, is it just the photos or does it have two different thread colors?

[kenthenoob]

the exterior threads are jsut exposed to indigo.

[tmadd]

I've never seen the Flat Head wallet in person, is it just the photos or does it have two different thread colors?

Good catch. Your answer is that the threads are pretty obviously different now, but they start out the same. The exterior threads seem to have lost the yellow tint (I assume an attribute of the waxing that the cow tendon thread receives) and gained some indigo stains.

[khoiphan92]

Hi neatsfooted and tanned my new long wallet

Only made for me and hurleyboarder11

[dunkin deeznuts]

cleaning out some stuff today

found these, totally forgot i bought these a few years ago

really like the leather one, need to start wearing it

[Charlie Delta]

roughly a year, every day.

Suntanned and oiled when new.

For comparison with the same belt but from the current collection, 95% sure that the same leather was used.

[rome1]

strange, thought it might have been a little darker after a year of use. I do like the spots in the 2nd to last photo, adds character to the belt!