How to waterproof leather | Leather Lessons conclusion 

Thanks for the kind words! I wanted this series to be something approachable that you could make along with me, so let me know if you do end up making one yourself 😁

Yeah, a non-zero amount of my apartment is dedicated to my leathercraft, and I still need to take over the kitchen lol. And thankyou, I'm glad that my juvenile jokes landed well 😌

My pleasure! I'm really glad that this was able to help you; I had similar problems with my first costrel attempt years ago so thought I'd pass on my tricks. Thanks for sharing that it all worked, I'm glad the heat gun had enough oomph!

@@Cxizent The second one went great too, so pleased with the results. they looked messy round the stitch lines on the outside before, but now they are sealed all over and no messy stitching. They are all ready for my next Jacobite style hike on camera. Will use this tip whenever I make a costrel now. Going to follow your costrel series when I get some more leather and will do a link to your videos, if that's alright. Really more helpful than you know. Thank you again for sharing. Davey.

Thankyou so much! Up next is getting back into making costume pieces, I've got a couple of things half made in my study at the moment that I can't wait to show off

Thank you for the kind words, I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

Glad it went out with a bang! Always glad to have you along, thanks for the kind words

I thought I'd try to show the "proper" way to do things before getting my heat gun out lol. It is seriously awkward to break off a chunk of beeswax

Food question! Several answers: 1) The leather is HARD after water proofing, so you can't really shape it or stitch it easily B) The leather needs to be wet formed before it's water proofed, and that's much easier to do when it's all in one piece, and finally iii) You want to waterproof the seam, too! If you waterproofed two pieces of leather and then just stuck them together, the seam would leak

I love hard work; I could watch it all day