Maze Leather is a site to share my experiences with while working with leather over the past couple years. We have tips for all sorts of skill ranges as well free and paid templates. Most items I will be making on our RU-vid will include a template in the description! Be sure to check out the leathercraft tab on Maze Leather website for tips on making leather items!
Awesome video! I'm pretty fussy about how I want my stitches to look and wasn't sure what to get until I watched this. Diamond shape stitching chisel it is :)
Hola, por favor le quiero pedir que me ayude con esto. Estoy usando hilo de nylon bonderizado, y quisiera que me oriente si este tipo requiere aplicarle cera para que no se enrede y refuerce su dureza? Gracias
I have a leather sling coming soon that will be new. I can't wait to try out your techniques to see if I can make it a more appropriate compliment to an aged Carcano.
That was pretty good. Why did you add the welt? Usually a welt is added to a knife sheath to protect the threads from the blade. I don't think that is needed on a holster.
I am doing a stitching job on heavy leather for a sheath. I feel the saddle stitch will work best. Your tutorial is the best I have found for me. You didn't speed up the video, so I can follow it. Thank you for posting the video. I now feel confident to do my stitching. It is harder, as the leather is 1/8" thick, and stiff, plus it is 3 layers. You have nice tools.
Just getting into some leather work (my grandfather was a saddler up Tamworth way, pre-Hiscocks, so I’m hoping the genes might show up!). This is a great little stitch guide!
I used to start with an awl and a mullet. I punched each hole seperately. After a while I got my first diamond stitching chisel and it changed everything. My work looked 10x better. There are really cheap ones out there that work perfectly fine. Keeping the chisel waxed and also resharpening them every time you use them also helps a bunch with these cheap chisels, as they tend to pull on the leather when trying to pull them out of it and, as you mentioned, tends to leave some "not so nice" holes in the back. 🙂
Keep coming back for the music. I know others have asked, would you be willing to provide a track list either in the description or in a pinned comment, please?
I also added a piece of scrap in my 4 in 1 hole punch to fix the wobbling! An issue mine had as well was one prong sitting at a slight angle or wobbling compared to the rest being 90° and stable. This seems to be from bad machining on my specific one, so hopefully it's not common, but this can be helped by holding the bracing bracket at a slight angle (after the scrap piece has been added as mentioned before) while tightening the set screw. It can be fiddly but beats buying a whole new punch if you're needing to make do.
