Quick Tip: Neatening up Your Saddle Stitch 

I am replying because I said the exact same thing!! So well explained and I dont have to wonder how he does it at all!

Michael Wolff Britcoms 🤣 Never heard that one before. I’m Scottish and would recommend Still Game. I would also suggest you try out Father Ted (a hilarious Irish show about Catholic priests living in an island community) if you haven’t already. I’m still laughing at it over 20 years later 😂 Let’s see how well you do with accents in those shows 😂😂

I am a massive still game fan 😆

Ian Atkinson it’s absolutely great. Just finished it again during the quarantine. I’m also a huge Ian Atkinson fan. I’ve watched so many leather craft videos these last two weeks. Do you do requests? 🤣 You couldn’t do a wee video on the process of buying leather or hides etc? It’s rather confusing for a guy like me who is starting out. The pricing is confusing and some places don’t even show prices or how to gauge how much hides might cost

+William Shin this is covered in the long stitching video.

Can you please give a link to that specific video? I tried to find it and couldn't. That is the answer I've been looking for and RU-vid suggested this video.

John Schild I want to know this too! Video is very helpful but what do you do with the end bit?

Ben kitching Probably you would tie a knot that will hold, then cut off the excess. Then if it was me I would hammer down like he showed at the end and take just a tiny bit of super glue and put that on the threads where the knot is to be extra secured. I don't know how everyone else does it though.

***** Thanks mate!

Ciobanu George I know this is an old comment but in case you haven't found the answer, your thread should be about 4 times the length of the item you are stitching.

I notice in his videos its just contact cement, I'm pretty sure he uses Barge brand. I have Dap Weldwood contact cement in a small glass bottle. It works amazingly with leather, I did tests on finished and unfinished leathers, and flesh and face sides and I'm very happy with the results. Hope that helped. -Dante Antonio.

You are not alone. I have the same problem with thin leather. One size siq-sag, another straight. I noticed that the side where we crossed the thread over will have sig-sag effect, which is what I always want.

Phillip Pitman no different to stitching with anything else, plus I don't use it!

It comes in straight stands. Do I have to twist it up?

Phillip Pitman the only time I ever tried it it was just on a spool, if you're unsure ask your supplier or on a forum.

Yes plenty ... but if you're running a professional workshop you need a good selection of tools to be able to complete a wide variety of items to a high standard. People who tell you all you need for leatherwork is an old fork and a Stanley knife are deluding themselves and will turn out poor work.

No, I live in a house there is nobody below me.

***** That's good, I live in a house also, before I used to live on the second level in an apartment, I had to tool on my couch so the downstairs didn't hear it LOL.

JDOCustomLeather I think if I lived in a flat I'd definitely have to change the way I did some things I'd be paranoid about annoying people! My house is an end terrace and my workshop is on the far wall where there's nobody joined on so it's not too bad. Plus it's not like I'm at it all day every day, I probably make about one item per week so for the 5 or 10 minutes I'm banging in stitch holes it should be OK even if they can hear it.

***** Ya I don't want to make anyone mad either, I do this for a living so I had to be quiet. If you watch my video "Tooling a Leather Skull" you can see me tooling on the couch chase LOL. On another note thanks for all the videos you make, I started out making sheaths cuz I needed extra money and watched many of your videos, especially the one that's an hour and 45 minutes, I watched that one everyday for a month learning how to make everything right, learn the steps and make it all look great. That was around 3-4 years ago now I make all kinds of stuff, I make leather videos also but their not as good as yours cuz my camera sucks and I don't have a lot of time. If you look for my leather page on facebook, "JDO Custom Leather" and look at everything I've made it's because of your videos. So thanks for the videos keep making them and I'll keep watching them.

+archangel20031 it's a leatherworker's marble not a counter top, it's designed for such uses.

+Ian Atkinson Still looks like a surface that just might decide to break with an impact. Beautiful but fragile looking.

You are an idiot. A big one that is.