Just found your vids Jake & enjoying them very much. I've come to leather work later than most so look for all sorts of assistance. Yours are one of the most helpful I've found. Your video work, explanations & manner of speaking are very clear. Keep them coming please.
Hi, thanks for that informative vid. Do you ever lightly dampen the leather surface before dying it? I noticed my dying technique on a belt was a bit uneven when applied to a dry surface, but the bend of the belt was still damp and the dye covered much more evenly on this section. What are your thoughts & experience dying leather when its damp? Thank you
You could save yourself a lot of time if you took a small scrap of wood and two smaller scraps, built a little bridge so your inch and a half belt fit exactly under it, then mark the top of tge bridge exactly in the middle. Then you could slide it up and down your belt always knowing exactly where the center of the belt is in an instant. Just a suggestion.
I just use a wing divider and set that up at half. Maybe if punching holes took longer I could build a jig for it but punching holes is only around 5-10 minutes of the overall process
@jakeufford7356 Thank you! I am new to this. I have been trying to carve on leather scraps I got at the Tandy store. It seems much of my frustration stems from the fact that I have been trying to carve leather that is too thin. (Smacks self in head) That's all part of tge learning curve I guess. LOL
So I did comment searching and saw you use montana leather but which exact thing on there do you use? I’m trying to make a few belts for me and my family!! Thank you
I use 8/9oz Hermann oak for the top and 2/3 oz Hermann oak for the liner. Another good place to get it is from Springfield leather. For the Chicago screws I get them from Tandy leather but that’s because I have a store local to me. I’m sure you can order those from either Montana leather or Springfield. Let me know if there is anything else I can help with and hope this helps!
Hi ! So i’m wanting to start my own western clothing line and obviously i want to have some leather tooled belts with my clothes, if you are a business in making belts, how do you have people order them ? Do they pre order ? and what happens if you get too many orders is that when you start to get a team of people to help ?
Hey! If you want to personal message me on Instagram or Facebook I can help answer your questions specifically. But generally I have people order and give them and expected wait time. If I get too many orders I just close incoming orders and try to catch up
Please where can I buy this sliver? The other ones think are for edge only? And one it’s too awkward to use. Please if you could reply. I’m trying to do a repair on a show and the shoe repair people I went to say they can’t do it. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
It was a 4/5oz piece. Any lighter and the tooling wouldn’t turn out with much depth. You could maybe go heavier but it could get to be bulky on the back of the phone
Nice video and great detail. The only suggestion is to attach your camera to a separate surface to eliminate the bounce of the camera when tapping the stamps.
