Leather Wet Molds: DIY or BUY? Pt. 1: DIY
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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Making a Professional Leather Wet Mold with Hand Tools?
You all know how much we love using wet molds in our leather crafting. We decided to dip our toes into some woodwork and make a Buckleguy style wet mold in a shape that they do not carry, to see how difficult or how time consuming it is to make one at home with simple electric hand tools. We basically just used a jig saw, hand held router, and palm sander - how will it turn out?! And will the material cost and time spent making the mod justify DIY over buying one. Thanks to Buckleguy for sponsoring this video :)
Ryobi +one hand router for the win! But seriously bro... you NEED to clamp your piece to your workbench before you router that S* !omg safety is no accident.
Might I suggest, rough-cutting your layers with the jigsaw before applying your template and using the flush trim bit? It'll save a lot of wear and tear on the bit blades and make the operation safer over all since you'll be cutting less than the full diameter of the bit.
100%. I wrote an absolute OSHA essay of a comment below going into detail about it, but I'll just repeat that I don't think this is a super responsible video, advising greenhorn woodworking cross-overs to take full width router passes on small pieces of plywood, freehand in all respects.
I'm very wary of suggesting anything, being an absolute hobbiest rube myself, but I suspect just just putting a couple screws through the pattern and the ply into a heavy bit of wood (preferably a workbench) is the way to do with without a table. Actually, if you're only doing one or two small ones, the way to do this is probably to jig saw up against the line (preferably clamped still) and then just sand it down to taste. We're moulding leather bags, not injection moulding complicated plastic parts commerically; what good would the router's extra +/- sixteenth of an inch of accuracy here actually even buy us?
Curious to hear your thoughts.
I make my own with cheap cutting boards(bamboo) from dollar store, add split leather to fine tune the thickness needed.
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But all the woodworking tools are no more dangerous than all the knives, percussion tools , etc. used by leather workers. Safety is a practice everyone should be doing !!
Thanks for this video.
As a woodworker looking at getting into leatherwork this is giving me lots of ideas.
Note, you can never have too many claps.
there is an easier way, just print it on a 3d printer
I recently got a 3d printer and have been impressed with how well wet molds come out of it
I was thinking about trying this. What material are you using?
I don't know if it's the correct way of making a mold but I cut a heavy duty poly cutting board and stacked them to the thickness I wanted and attached the layers with screws. I can take out layers by unscrewing to make it the thickness I want.
I've done both versions - I bought my first set of molds from a CNC router person and was pleased with the product, but the sizes just weren't large enough, so made my own the second time around. A jigsaw, drill, router and clamps are all the tools necessary. But more important than tools is PATIENCE. If you don't have a CNC, but feel the need for close tolerances, you'll need patience to cut and sand your pattern. If you don't need close tolerances - which honestly leather does not require - then just go forth and have fun! Yes, the investment in tools is the same as the cost of good commercial molds, but then you have the same tools to make any mold you want.
All things simple, you can use 3D printed molds. This molds more useful than wood molds.
Thanks for displaying the mental flexibility to show a different part of leatherworking vs. just the stitching, cutting, beveling, etc..
The problem with buckleguy molds is 1/8" isn't wide enough gap. I modified the one I bought to 1/4" which works much better, even with thinner leather. Their specs are not correct as leather swells when wet.
Glad to see you branching out into the mold making woodworking. Just knowing that I don’t have to make my molds as tight and precise as a CNC gives me the confidence to do this myself.
Thanks for this. I was wet molding some 9oz this morning. Now I know how to make my own mold 👍🏼
I made a mold from 3/4” pine once and the negative frame snapped one the first use. A very negative experience. 😂. Thick plywood is probably best. I’ve been thinking that a plastic kitchen cutting board might also make great wetmold material.
I make all of my wet molds myself. the Buckle Guy molds are super nice but like you said in the video, they carry basic and not custom. plus there is some real satisfaction is doing it yourself.
Yikes!! Message to your partner. Hide those routers. Surprised you have all your fingers.
Interesting how you make the bag. I made many of these. I saw a video from Leodis Leather, I think in 2015, not sure. He cut the leather edges in a sort of spike type cuts. I saw that you didn't do that. I'll need to try that again. I made a wood mold. I just figured it out. Didn't see any videos on how to make it. Enjoy your videos.
That mold could potentially be a clamshell case as well. Really enjoyed the idea, sorry you will be cleaning up sawdust for the next 6 months. Also wanted to point out many box stores will cut a sheet of plywood in half or quarters so they are easier to take home. They will not normally cut in all sorts of specific dimensions but will make them more manageable and lighter.
Depends on whether or not you have the skills, tools and can you find it pre-made or not.
Are you agreeing with him or just answering the title of the video?
@@tianamarie989 actually I wrote this before watching the whole video. So I guess I'm agreeing with him.
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It's two peices of 3/4 or maybe 1 inch plywood and it would be an extremely easy build with little more than a router and chamfer/round over bit and a jig saw. Great video though and I like the break down.
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10:09 "I move away from the mic to breathe in"
What veg tan do you use in all of your videos?
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Miss the days when this channel would actually post videos about leatherworking and making cool stuff. Nowadays its just one bit Buckleguy ad, or some other self promoting ad
I can maybe see where you're coming from, but the last almost 10 videos have been leatherworking projects and techniques. I think it's nice seeing new perspectives in terms of business and tooling. And it's refreshing, there's thousands of videos on making a project. New isn't bad, just different; and that's how we grow right?
Errum, this video is the opposite of a buckle guy commercial. We got to see how to make our own molds, instead of spending money on ones from buckle guy. Feel free to complain about some other video. This one is a-ok with me.