How to Make a BEAUTIFUL Wet Molded Leather Bag! 

I had to go hunting for it to, (no apparent link!) found it at Rocky Mtn leather Supply as "French "Velodon" Reinforcement"

I'm looking into a clippy mic! Will do :) Thank you!

Can't wait to see what you make - and remember, you don't need super fancy tools! I started Corter with $37 worth of tools and a single panel of leather from my dorm room, hopefully you can start crafting soon :)

@@Corter I hope so too! I’ve been scoping out cheep tools but I know I shouldn’t be spending money I don’t have right now. We’re just scraping by but God sustains! I’ll be sure to send you pics. Thanks :)

If you have an extra like $15 and a Dollar Tree and some thrift stores nearby, you can get some inexpensive cutting tools and glues and whatnot at the Tree, and find some leather pieces, coats or handbags, at low prices from the thrifts. Depending on what you want to make it could get you started. Sell some stuff and build up your bank until you can get to where you want to be.

Here's how I got started, and it seemed to work well. It's a $40 plan to get $100 worth of product on your first go. I started by just making journals, with only these things: paper, thick thread, and sheep leather. Sheep leather is the key there, it's far cheaper, and far more flexible, like cloth. You can stitch it to the front page and back page for a bit more stability. The only tools I needed were scissors, (which work fine to cut the paper and sheep leather) a nail, (to punch the few holes) and a needle, for obvious reasons. Usually sheep leather only comes in full hides, but it costs about the same as a panel of nice cowhide, and you get far more out of it. So the cost of all of this: Leather: $20 Thread: $6 - $7 (this gets you some color variety too) Paper: anywhere from $7 to $15 depending on what you want Needles: $1.50 - $5 Scissors (if you don't have any already): $4 - $10 Ruler (if you don't have one already): $2 - $7 and you can just use any pointy strong-ish thing for the poking part. Maybe even a toothpick! You can get about six 5x8 inch journals out of this. There are REALLY easy to follow tutorials on this platform, and the journals themselves are really simple to make. If you sell each one to friends and family for $20, you could make $120, but you might mess up on at least one, so realistically you'd only get $100. That's still a $60 profit, which you could use to expand your hobby. I highly encourage exploring leather, it's been so much fun for me!

@@Corter Hi there, I didn't want to make this it's own comment, because I remember you saying something about why you never show your face, so I wanted as little people to see this as possible, to leave that disclosure decision up to you. But just so that you know, at 31:08 you can make out your face pretty clearly in the closure reflection. From what I can tell, you have a nice face!

Start with something simple like a coin holder and then work your way up to a cell phone holder and then on to small bags. I like wet molding, it's a blast to do and not that hard. I make my own molds as I'm a woodworker too.

Hello. Where did you get and buy the molds. What sizes are Needed. Also do you know where to get the pattern?

Anyone could respond. I'm at a standstill.

No, if you look there is a channel for them to sit in

Also... The D-ring joke. Got a good chuckle out of that haha (especially from Kayleena's defeated laugh and dropping the camera)

Uds, no ganarán....

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@@Cvbhgt звідки у вас настрій і бажання всіх повчати? Тим більше коментар адресовано не вам.

If you have some plywood or wood make your own. it is very easy.

Amazon should have it Velodon nylon backing.

Thanks! And probably not - thread isn't stretchy, so you'd either rip the leather or the thread trying to wet mold it probably. Glue only I'm not sure about but the leather does stretch so if it did work, you'd probably get some weird stretch lines and stuff as the inner liner stretches on a tighter radius than the outer piece around the curves

Working on making a nice version of it with Buckleguy ourselves! It'll be a. bit different, we want to make a few changes to make it perfect for leatherwork :)

@@Corter Said it before. You guys are the best!

Yea I was thinking about that! It'd be really cool, 100% the next step. Just thought of it mid-project and didn't have time to make up a mold for it, next one for sure!

@@Corter That will be cool to see how you make a mold for that or are you thinking of wetting the flap and molding it too the lower? Other Idea would be to make each pocket cover and then join them together, I think that the stitching might make that even look very cool.

I honestly don't remember, it's been in the scrap bin forever!

Ok, thanks for responding.