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RobbC
10-01-2011, 04:01 PM
i am really wanting to get into leather craft but i just dont know where to start. if anyone has any hints, tips, tricks, advice or guides to making sheaths, tinder bags, coffee bags or axe sheaths, that would be great.

cheers
Robb
resnikov
10-01-2011, 04:57 PM
Will watch this with intrestest, I'm in the same boat as you Robb. Would love to have a go but no idea where to start.
RobbC
10-01-2011, 05:11 PM
Good to kno there is somone with the same troubles as me.

Robb
paul standley
10-01-2011, 06:39 PM
I'd love to get into leather (not the black shiny type you see on dodgy web sites) but the crafty type so I'll also watch with interest.

Paul.
KERNOW KELT
10-01-2011, 07:30 PM
I will also be watching this with interest, we are in the same boat here in Penwith Cornwall
Not so long ago the Adult Education people had several of this type of craft !!!
Tony1948
11-01-2011, 07:01 PM
OK you guys, hear we go I will say this only once,HA HA. Go to ebay ALL Categories and look for crafts scoll down to leathercraft ,you need leather between 3-4 mm.Have a look at items No...140446163324..overstitcher wheel,Tapestry needles,item No..31220504496....You can bay a leather sheath kit item No....140495294503,you need wax thred, youdo get some with the sheath kit,most of your needs you can get off EBAY LEATHERCRAFT .If you need tonow more let us now................alb.........TONY
KERNOW KELT
11-01-2011, 07:18 PM
Thank you Tony..... any ideas ref my total lack of ability !?...

Having just looked at some of the kit produced by some of the other members :confused2:

There are some realy clever chaps on this forum.

I will have a look at the info though.:p
Martin
11-01-2011, 07:33 PM
Why not come to the Cornwall RV at Easter guys. I'm pretty sure that Neil or Leon are doing leather crafting workshop. They will be able to answer all of your questions and put you straight on what kit you need to get started.

Details here Cornwall RV (http://footstepsofdiscovery.co.uk/cornwall.html)

See you there.

Martin
RobbC
11-01-2011, 09:32 PM
I would love to martin, but i am only 15 nd hav no way of gettin there.

Robb
RobbC
11-01-2011, 09:34 PM
Does anyone have any info or directions to making a tinder or coffee bag?

Robb
KERNOW KELT
13-01-2011, 08:00 PM
Why not come to the Cornwall RV at Easter guys. I'm pretty sure that Neil or Leon are doing leather crafting workshop. They will be able to answer all of your questions and put you straight on what kit you need to get started.

Details here Cornwall RV (http://footstepsofdiscovery.co.uk/cornwall.html)

See you there.

Martin

I / We (Mark my cousin & partner in crime) hope to come up...Mark has Mrs and kids to contend with, so we may just select the days we want. I also thought it would be good to say Hi.
Tony1948
13-01-2011, 09:39 PM
Hi Robbc, I get a lot of my lether from old hand bags or the right colure old jackets from boot sales.jacket lether is very soft so it be just right for a tinder or coffee bag,any way wot you doing drinking coffee at 15 I thalt all you guys up there drunk ionbrow or sumthing.......atb......TONY
RobbC
14-01-2011, 09:37 AM
Bit stereotypical, lol. Its IRB BRU and its made frae girders, anyway i digress, theres nothin better than a coffee when you wake up in the woods and i just wanted somethin more elegant to store my coffee, flour or sugar in, oh nd of course my tinder!
Tony1948
14-01-2011, 03:22 PM
Robbc,I was only takeing the micky with the IRB BRU. BUT the lether coat thing was the Bizz it the right thickness for Coffee, tinder bags, try cutting a circle out of the back of a coat, punch some holes around the edge about an inch apart then thred a lether boot lace threw the holes and pull the lace tite,see how that do's .....atb..........TONY
Martin
14-01-2011, 03:29 PM
Right! I'm not going off on a spelling thing again, but it's IRN BRU!!!! :p

Martin
Tony1948
14-01-2011, 03:45 PM
That was not looking at watt i rote.HA HA
RobbC
14-01-2011, 04:03 PM
i wrote that on my i-phone nd it is easy to make mistakes with them, here that martin!!! lol
Martin
14-01-2011, 04:05 PM
i wrote that on my i-phone nd it is easy to make mistakes with them, here that martin!!! lol

I'm not going to bite, I'm not going to bite, I'm not going to bite. :D

Martin
RobbC
14-01-2011, 04:08 PM
Tony1948
Robbc,I was only takeing the micky with the IRB BRU. BUT the lether coat thing was the Bizz it the right thickness for Coffee, tinder bags, try cutting a circle out of the back of a coat, punch some holes around the edge about an inch apart then thred a lether boot lace threw the holes and pull the lace tite,see how that do's .....atb..........TONY

I was taking the mick aswell, lol.
Kiltie
14-01-2011, 05:01 PM
Another good source of free leather is old settees, sometimes you come across them outside blocks of manky flats, or you can take a trip to your local council re-cycling centre or tip, the bit you sit on is 'Chromed leather', the rest is vinyl, I've made various things out of it ;)
KERNOW KELT
14-01-2011, 06:02 PM
I'm not going to bite, I'm not going to bite, I'm not going to bite. :D

Martin

Hay Martin, you sure your not a bit OCD or is it DOC, COD !!!???:confused2:
gamekeeper
17-03-2012, 01:18 PM
try le prevo for your leather work tools tel0191 232 4179 and tandy leathercraft for books and designs tel 01604 647910
munky2005
06-04-2012, 12:12 PM
Hi all, search for satansbarber on YouTube. He has some informative stuff that will give you some idea of the techniques etc. Will also give you an idea of some of the stuff to get. I'm just starting out myself and am looking at getting the tools from http://www.leprevo.co.uk/tools.htm. They seem reasonably cheap to me and I am on a tight budget so have been shopping around. Hope this helps.

Ant