A Little Leather Work

A couple money clips and part of the process of building them.

Carving done and almost all the tooling.

Antique applied

Magnets added, ready to hand stitch the liner

Stitching complete and molding the liner

Ready to burnish the edges

Finished

There are more steps involved that I don't show here.  These are just a few.  It's hard to make folks understand that you can't learn all this by sitting in a class for two hours and go home with a finished product.  This is probably my simplest product to produce and it takes at least 3 days due to all the leather prep time and drying of the oil and finishes.  Kim gets requests to have classes on some of her leather jewelry all the time.  We have resorted to making the leather pieces in advance for them to use in their projects when possible.   

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