Show us your leather

[lazybum]

Thanks again. I happened to have quite a lot of idle time in camp recently. Since there is nothing much to do there I passed the time doodling designs on my sketchbook. This was one of the designs that was developed during that time. So I guess it helped that I had a lot of time to think about it and make refinements.

Nice! Looks like horsehide?

Its cowhide for most, the accents are horsehide.

[M1stral]

Just came in from OGL

[Vanquish Gold]

Lazybum.... beautiful wallet! You really have great designing flair!

[smartsud]

Pherrow's 20th anniversary

[aho]

Samurai coaster at 1 month

Edited November 12, 2011 by aho

[madstaxbro]

I bought a roll of horsehide to play around with today.

[leyori]

Macro evo for ogl bracelet

ammo pouch

[JackCrank]

Brand new LGC Hand dyed oak black short ponderosa wallet. Black suede inside cardholders/pockets. Really like it, definitely not all burnished goodness like some of the other stuff here but for $80 shipped, I got zero complaints. Also, USA made.

[mikecch]

[w11114m]

Angelos and Blackacre right?

Loving the Chromexcel textures.

[mikecch]

The one on the left is a veg. tanned horse wallet by unlucky.

[hollowsleather]

Pulled a little side project and made some grips to match my new Brooks Select:

[TLCA]

grips look great! I hope you have paul brakes to match the levers, good stuff all around

[saintkeat]

Hey Nic how are your jeans coping with the brooks saddle? I was wondering if I should swap out mine for a leather one. I just have the usual plastic/rubber saddle and its pretty ripped up from denim abrasion.

On a side note, your bracelet got to me just fine =)

Fits perfect btw. Thanks for the help!

[Tiro]

sweeeet grips! and paul levers

that bracelet also looks very nice, silver hardware?

[ranonranonarat]

chris_n leather triangle

[straightxedge]

[wgmds]

is mink oil is no bueno for leather jacket conditioner? also, are shoe cream on leather jackets/ saddle soap fine on jackets?

[mikecch]

A limited edition belt from that other forum

It's the baker belt from Charlie at equus leather:

4.9 mm thick bridle butt leather in russet, from Baker's tannery, UK.

Very impressed by how well made it is...

The edges left raw; the density is mind-blowing:

More on my blog.

[Xstan]

it's a beauty .

[saintkeat]

Damn my fat thumbs! Mike that belt is a beauty! Meant to rep but my fat thumbs tapped the wrong button! Where's the undo button when you need one?

[Tiro]

hey mike, thought this might interest u, kamida-san finished my 'nume' cordovan wallet today and shipped it.

might be able to post pics at the end of this week, fingers crossed.

turned out he made the entire wallet out of cordovan, so, i'm pretty curious to see the result.

[mikecch]

^^ lol, that's alright saintkeat

Yes, please do post some pics tiro, curious to see how the shell might age over time too!

[beautiful_FrEaK]

got this mustang paste from DC4 today. will use it asap on my belts

(Samurai and Quercus)

[mikecch]

Nice kop b_F, mustang paste works a charm!

The mark-up at dc4 is a bit ridiculous though, almost $70 for what is essentially 100 mL of distilled horse oil.

For an accessible source of horse oil, I can recommend Seiwa's horse oil product.

[rebelz]

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Nice kop b_F, mustang paste works a charm!

The mark-up at dc4 is a bit ridiculous though, almost $70 for what is essentially 100 mL of distilled horse oil.

For an accessible source of horse oil, I can recommend Seiwa's horse oil product.

to my knowledge DC4 is the only shop outside Asia carrying mustang paste. considering the shipping costs i would have paid if ordering from japan the difference is not that much anymore.

and i don't know at which price Daniel buys the mustang paste. on top of that price he has to add shipping costs, 19% VAT, extra customs for oil products and of course a mark-up.

I agree it is expensive. 60$ (not 70$) after todays currency exchange rate at Dc4 compared to Japanese retail of 37,50$ (without shipping)

[mikecch]

Yeah, trying to sell a product which incurs a high premium in the Japanese domestic market is hard enough, now export it to Europe and the cost probably does need to explode a little.

Though, $60 for 100 mL of animal fat is pretty darn huge - for the same price I could get my hands on 20 litres of emu oil

Seiwa's horse oil is a bit more reasonable at $18 for 100 mL, though it is not in paste form, but liquid fat (oil) and this makes it slightly trickier to play around with but the results are just as good if used correctly.

I wouldn't mind paying a bit more for a well thought out and executed mixture/formula, but as a simple animal oil we really shouldn't be paying that much.

Another cheaper, but very effective, option is cod oil. Whilst much cheaper, it is used by many tanneries and curriers around the world. (I would suggest mixing it with a plant oil/essence to hide the marine smell though...haha)

A good quality neatsfoot would do nicely too - have been told that cold-distilled is the way to go - and I don't see most leathers needing much more than this. Emphasis on good quality though - it should be smooth & clean, and smell very neutral just like horse oil.

Edited November 28, 2011 by mikecch

[beautiful_FrEaK]

hehe..yes you are really the leather expert on every topic if I had your knowledge and your contacts I would have a broader range of products to choose from and prolly would use more different products and would know what's the best for what leather.

for now I'm very happy and like the mustang paste a lot better than my Red Wing boot oil which i used so far on all my leather products.

but as always, thanks for your inout!

[seanpsk]

Angelos Bi Fold, close to 6 months