Best leather thickness for leather wallets? How to choose the best leather for making wallets
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- What is the best thickness for leather wallets for leather craft. This video walks through the process or choosing the right leather and the right thickness of leather for wallet making. Corey walks through his approach as a leather crafter and his wallet making process.
Corey provides tips and tricks for the wallet making process and how to best meet the needs of the leather wallet project.
@reedyrivergoods is dedicated to educating those new to leather craft or those who may just want to learn a new leather craft skill or take their hobby to the next level. Corey uses his years of building leather craft skills and a successful business in selling leather goods to help teach those, just like him who were interested and looking for some down to earth leather tutorials for those that may not have thousands of dollars of machines and would still like to pursue leather craft. Subscribe and follow along to see what @reedyrivergoods comes up with next and take your leather crafting to the next level
00:00 Introduction
01:52 leather thickness explained
02:34 wallet examples explained
03:23 planning project is essential
The “0.4mm per ounce” is super helpful as leather is sold by the mm thickness here in the UK! Thankyou
Took me forever to figure it out.. basically too lazy to go find the answer and struggled to find the right thickness for a few months!! Helped me a ton
finally leather thickness explained!
Most of my billfolds with a cash sleeve are 8 layers thick, so i prefer about .5-.6mm per layer. That's with everything lined. They hold up great. Keep stitching away from edges, double stitch over pocket edges.
With fewer layers and fewer pockets, not lined, etc. I will go up to 1.2mm.
With soft leather, prepunch before fully assembling.
great point on the softer layers. Certainly some live and learn aspects to my previous failures
I've watched a ton of video's on leather crafting, and this is the perfect video explaining wallet leather thickness! Thank you!
Thank you so much. This one kept coming up and had to say a few words on the matter. What other areas of interest for topics do you have ?
Right there with you!
Very good advice! now I'm going to measure the thickness of my pieces before I start the next project!
I appreciate it! I was bleeding trying to get through some of my first projects because the leather was so thick
Great video and explanation about tailoring the ounces to the project. I've been working leather for several years but just started with wallets and bags recently. You learn quickly what works and what doesn't
Thank you much! I want to carve away more time for bags and have some video tutorials for duffle bag and bookbag on the way. I started out and still usually error on the side of too thick for some projects. Still fine tuning and learning from past mistakes!. Costly at times but lessons learned regardless!
Will have to add same topic for bags and shoes to the videos
@@reedyrivergoods me too. I mainly do axe work and the sheaths are usually pretty hefty. However, I've been experimenting with thinner covers for the axes these days and I'm kind of digging them. FYI you have a new subscriber. Cheers
Very informative! Thank you!
Thank you..Appreciate you watching.
Good info!
Thanks, hope it helps
I use buff 3-4oz outside and 2-2.5 oz goat for pockets and slots inside. I don't skive the edges, b'se it wont be looking good while folded
I bet those goat pockets are silky! Like that for a formula
Great video. I would add a few things
I appreciate it!
😂"absolute Big Mac" 👍
Haha, just felt right!?!
@@reedyrivergoods it feels good to know theres ppl out there with my kinda humor, i say stuff like that all the time. I subbed to your etsy shop. Look forward to make some purchases, im one of those that appreciates a FAT Mac of leather thickness in belts and wallets.
Haha😂😂😂
Always a mystery
I like to convert to grams to be specific. Per mm
Hi. My father does upholstery, fixing, recovering sofas and chairs. He got a lot of leather at his shop but the leathers he has are really soft. Can I use soft leathers for making wallets and other leather goods?
Hey thanks for reaching out. Upholstery leather would be very tough to work with for a wallet. You could certainly do it but it wouldn’t be a great material to use because it’s generally soft, flimsy and stretchy to some degree. There is some reinforcement backing you could use or liner to help give it some structure but otherwise it would be very flimsy.
I’ve bought cheap upholstery before thinking it would be smooth and great… not great for wallets…
I'll take an executive wallet please sir!
I think i know a guy
Sounds fancy