Thread: DIY Leather Projects

Looks like very neat stitching going on there, what equipment do you use and where do you source your leather from?

the stitching part is a ball ache - very time consuming and its not as neat as it looks.
all manually done and i use a few tools shown here, the wheel thing marks the hole spacing by leaving impressions on the leather and you then use the awl (spike tool) to manually poke each hole through the leather.
the punch tool is the fastest and neatest but you need straight lines for it to be effective.
then you get a length of heavy waxed cotton with sturdy needles threaded at each end and stitch through the holes in a figure of eight pattern until you feel like tossing the whole bloody thing out the window
i got it all from a company called Lapco here in NZ