Thread: Playing with leather

This thread is very inspirational! My wife gave me a basic leathermaking toolkit as a present a few years ago, and I'm keen to start using it.

Question - if I want to start by making a basic belts and some pouches to hold a pocket knife, mobile phone, that kind of thing - what kind of leather do I need? Grades, thicknesses? I assume a belt needs to be thicker leather than a pouch. A wet-molded knife pouch thicker leather than a belt pouch for a mobile phone?

Where do you source your leather from in NZ? I've looked through this thread, and googled, but most websites / youtube videos seem to be overseas based and using overseas suppliers.