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Tips and coin purse

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Update 30th May 2018. Tips of the day. Use a sharp self tapping screw to depress the protrusion after using diamond punch to punch hole on veg tan leather. This will minimize rough edges during stitching work. Tips of the day ** there is another workaround is use diamond punch until the other face side can see the first punch tip mark. Then on the other side to punch hole again using diamond punch. hopefully this approach can help resolve issue with uneven punch mark on project. New project sharing  Dimension for leather materials to make coin purse goat skin leather for coin purse Positon layout Preparation for gluing and punch hole Marking position for button Preparation for sticking two piece of leather Another new coin purse The two side flap are attached to bottom piece. The top and bottom piece are stitch together. === other design and layout coin purse === New coin purse use veg tan leather for the rear portion. The front portion is goat veg tan leather. Use two tone goat le...

Design Coin Purse

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Update 24th May 2018. Shows step to fabricate coin purse and some tips to share.  Share the dimension and parts for a new coin purse project Tips to on how to sand off part of leather surface for gluing together. This to prepare the raw leather surface for sanding to roughen contact surface. Use a own make sand paper file like tool to sand down the surface to make better bond between two leather surface ======== two pouch coin purse project ==== Use of scrap leather and punch round leather parts to cover rear of button metal parts. This view of inner surface. = = = = = =  end of document = = = = = =

Sun glass Cover

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This is sun glass casing using veg tan leather. Without this stitching pony device it is very difficult and time consuming to perform saddle stitching method which is very fundamental. It make as more comfortable and less stressful when performing stitching work. Without this basic tool use as "third hand" make it very useful tool to perform stitching work. It can be frustrating and take longer to perform stitching without it. Use new stitching pony for new sun glass casing Note however the design on the gripping part was overlook and can cause other issue. Like uneven part the gripping part might "block" due to even surface of stitching parts.  Cut off design for veg tan leather Inner layer parts, layout the inner parts to check it meet requirement. This is part of the process before gluing the parts together. Punch hole with diamond chisel, with total 18 holes Glue apply for inner layer, use a paper to mark off and minimize gule spread to other unwanted area. Note...