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Leatherwork

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:34 am
by Batmancaver
One of my other hobbies is knife making and leatherwork. Well, I've not done much knife making last year, although I do have a number of blades, wood and ideas to start putting together!
I've not done a lot because my old workshop (shed) needed replacing due to rot and it's taken a while to get it replaced and to get the new one all sorted out. At last it's all sorted with my power tools all nicely stored on a shelf system whereby they are attached to the shelf. The shelf can then be slid out and securely bolted to the workbench. The system is quite a neat way of storage/use and works well. The workbench is also handmade out of a felled sycamore from work and took a bit of time to make. The legs are 2x3", support struts 2x3" and the top is about 50x26x2". In all it weighs quite a bit and is going nowhere when you hammer/drill/sand on it etc!

That aside, I managed to do a few bits of leatherwork when I was allowed to use the kitchen table!

My two lads and I took up archery last year. As a result I needed a bracer:

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Then I needed a quiver:

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Then I needed a belt to use the quiver:

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Then I made a simple wrist sling;
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My two lads decided they wanted proper bracers (I'm just waiting for some Ecoflo dye to be delivered so I can finish them):

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Whilst I was making the quiver and then the bracers I repeatedly got fed up scrabbling for my tools that were just stored in a tool tray. Collecting some wood from work I cut, sanded and drilled a couple of tool racks.
The stamping/carving rack is made from a branch off a Yew that came down in last years snow and the punching rack is made from a small silver birch trunk that also came down last year.

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Now that my workshop is eventually all sorted out I can get on with some knives this year :D What do you think?

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:40 am
by jaz66
all very nice work BC... :thumright:

particularly liking the tool holder.. :ymhug:

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:12 pm
by suspend
very nice work

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:41 pm
by Bradlad
do you just do that as a hobby or do you sell?

I ask as I'm a bowman but I'm also the Wing Archery officer for the South and West Yorkshire Wing of the Air cadets, I would love a personalised leather bracer, and the cadets are really beginning to pick up on Archery, some even buying their own kit, so I'm sure a few of them may be interested in personalised bracers too.

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 1:47 pm
by Fat Rich
Now there's some proper talent there! Do you have a website to sell your wares?

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 3:35 pm
by Tony V
All top quality work there BC, just like your previous hobby post with your knife collection ^:)^

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:08 pm
by Finbar
Lovely work there BMC. :-bd

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:11 pm
by chromedome
Craftsmanship. Nice to see it's still around. :thumleft:

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:36 pm
by Drac
Excellent work

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:51 pm
by Jelly
My uncle does that for a living, and I can say that what you've posted up here is top quality work.

Top work Karl. ^:)^

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:01 pm
by marmike
really nice work ^:)^ must give you a lot of pleasure to do

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:06 pm
by R-dubya
Very nice!

I wish I'd had a brace like that the day I went to an archery day... although they did give me a brace it was crap and I came away with the inside of my left forearm looking like a rainbow, with the main colours being yellow and purple :( :( :(

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:52 pm
by Batmancaver
Well, it's been a busy start to 2014, although technically I did start them in 2013.
I've just finished making some archery equipment for my two lads.

They now both have a quiver each,
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a quiver belt each,
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and a bracer each!
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What do you think?

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 11:46 am
by Danoontjepower
i think it looks awesome!!!

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 9:32 pm
by Dicky
Good work there mate. :-bd

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:15 pm
by marmike
Hey batmancaver is it leatherwork that I can see plastered all over the musketeers in that show of the same name ( if so it must have been a lot of work for someone- and is definitely the best part of the dismal show - do you rate the workmanship I've only seen glimpses?)

Re: Leatherwork

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:40 pm
by Batmancaver
Sorry Marmike, I don't know .... I've not watched it!
:D :D