Show us your leather

[Danny @ Rivet & Hide]

Thanks for the tips. Lead me to my old favourite Lewis Leathers & their Super Phantom 443 jacket

[somatoform]

Love this biker jacket worn by Justin Theroux. Has that retro 80s padded shoulders but a clean single breasted front.

love to get my hands on one although bet it cost a bomb. any ideas?

Just happened to have my Laanglitz Leathers catalogue by me when reading this, and I think you'de like the cascade. Great price at $850 for mtm. Give it a look.

[rockon99]

my cheap tandy sew-yourself wallet

new +one application of Obenaufs:

Now:

[vitasoy]

thanks Nicholas!

[Danny @ Rivet & Hide]

Found very similar jacket at Lewis Leathers. Considering saving for one in either black or a navy blue leather. Any thoughts on the latter colour?

[mikecch]

A bit more re: the Clayton bridle.

A very different approach to Baker's make, a very uniform but shallow grain growth - interesting stuff!

Again, on the dark brown leather too.

I cannot see the pores at all on this very precise, perfect grain:

[mikecch]

And a quick update on my Angelos no. 2 cattlehide wallet - it's been another 3 months now!

In not so direct lighting:

The leather has a good shine on it just from conditioning and sweat, and the emu oil I've been feeding it also imparted a slight pull-up effect.

The wax linen threading are going strong, and the grain has really opened up too

And a testament to Chris' superb burnishing - almost half a year later, it is still as smooth as it was the day I received it.

His attention to detail and devotion in creating a precise, considered product is no less than the more famous Japanese workshops!

[beatle]

oh my, that leather jacket is fantastic

[eNonsense]

http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/123579089.html

Not my leather, but relevant. Leather bike, made by Red Moon.

[louisbosco]

my idea, denim i bought plus hard work from OGL.

louisbosco x OGL x momotaro

[LckyChrmsBBoy]

That's a nice wallet!!! How much does something like that cost?

[lazybum]

http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/123579089.html

Not my leather, but relevant. Leather bike, made by Red Moon.

Holy freaking hell

[scasi]

Usage late 2009 - mid 2011

Can't remember the actual date i start using this, and this wallet has serve me well....

And here it goes, joining the vault of archive with the rest.

My new wallet!

London Tan Long with Python details

Trust me, even as a craftmens for OGL, the feeling of having this new wallet is the same as everyone else, all excited!

[mikecch]

Zug on scotch...

[spy]

washed veg-tan, ~3 months of use

[OXW]

Hollows Leather's mid length wallet.

Chris_N's Triangle and keychain.

OGL's bracelet.

sorry for the poor quality of photo..

[Max Power]

This is my OGL Veg Tan 15 oz Brazilian leather belt, worn daily since September or October. Has been oiled at least 3 times. Love it.

Startet out like this:

[louisbosco]

That's a nice wallet!!! How much does something like that cost?

i paid slightly over USD200 including the rein. but that is of course i had to bring in my own denim roll.

[Paul T]

Thought this might make a change from belts and wallets.

For the past four or five years I've been growing more and more ashamed of our living room sofa - designed by nigel coates, it was covered in Alcantara, fake suede, but was getting increasing greasy and nasty. We put off recovering it for a long time, because it only made sense to recover in leather - and the last quote we'd got, in a decent aniline tan, was £1500. Ouch.

In the spring I got a payment I'd been awaiting for a couple of years. So it was now or never. I'd sourced a couple of upholsterers before, this time I spent a morning trying different people - and finally found a company who did all the small scale leather work for the original manufacturers, Hitch Mylius. By sourcing the leather separately - from Andrew Muirhead, the leading british tannery for upholstery leather - I managed to shave a third off the price.

THen, disaster, Once the leather arrived, it was poor quality - barbed wire marks, and lots of assymetric streaking. Variation in a hide can be attractive, as long as it's fairly symmetrical around the spine. The Muirhead leathers were patchy - I think because we were one-off purchasers, they'd perhaps sent us some lower quality skins. We had an awkward week or two before they agreed they were indeed sub-standard and refunded the payment.

So. Same time as the Muirhead, we'd also looked at Sorensen leathers. They have supplied the leather for all the Arne Jacobsen chairs, particularly, the Egg, for the last 50 years. They were pricier than the Muirhead - in the end it turned out we'd bought their most expensive leather, the aniline 5064 Cognac, even nicer than the samples I'd seen. Intriguingly, though, the price for buying direct from them in Denmakr was almost exactly one third the price we were quoted by a leading design shop for the leather alone.

Finally we picked up the baby, yesterday. As you might be able to guess from the shape, this is an exceptionally tricky sofa to recover. We're very happy with the job.

This shows some of the streakiness, altho it's hard to capture on camera.

Now, all we have to do is wait for the first mark or stain!

[cash]

Now, all we have to do is wait for the first mark or stain!

...I suspect this is soon to become a hidden-rivet-only zone?

[Happy Hooligan]

that's a great looking sofa (from the front) I'm not sure I get the back end...?

I know your pain on the getting just the right leather, and the one you got looks fantastic. Perfect color. I think they did smash up job on it.

do you have matching chairs?

[Paul T]

We have two old French leather chairs, somewhat darker. Except where the leather has been ripped away by mice. I kid not, it's a nightmare!

[devilish]

I like how the back of the sofa looks like it's poking it's tongue out.

[Paul T]

Very perceptive - it's called the Tongue Sofa. Designed for a Tokyo hotel, I recall. Kids love, obviously enough, climbing thru the 'throat' part, of course we shall ban that now.

[Maynard Friedman]

Very nice Paul, looks like it was worth all the pain,anxiety and expense in the end, although I honestly don't know why you didn't just scrap it and go to DFS instead

[Paul T]

It wasn't that painful, apart from the mugging in the wallet department. Yup, we could have got, say, a Florence Knoll copy in semi-aniline for half the price of recovering it...

[himelator]

One of my favorite leather jackets that I made this year

[himelator]

another view....

my 1960s chair

[himelator]

www.himelbrothersleather.com for more of my favorite leather things

[lance]

^ that is a beautiful leather jacket!