Leather is a strong and versatile material, and indispensable when you're working, hunting, or exploring outdoors. Hunter and outdoor professional Carsten Bothe offers the ultimate beginner's guide for this useful hobby. These photo-rich, step-by-step instructions prove that anyone can learn the techniques of cutting, sewing, and finishing to make, or repair, your essential leather items. You'll learn how to make a seam, to wet-form, to apply button studs and rivets, and everything else needed to master the basics. Five useful projects - good looking, and able to be put to practical use - help you put what you've learned into practice: make your own belt, dog leash, belt bag, knife sheath, and leather holster. Whether you are a hunter, reenactor, knife maker, scout, horseback rider, or bushcraft fan, or you use leather in other ways, here is your guide to a new skill. Soft bound, 111 pages, color photos & illustrations, 7-1/2" x 9" format.
The Table of Contents includes the following:
ISBN: 978-0-7643-5744-2
The Table of Contents includes the following:
- Foreword
- Leather-Crafting Materials
- Workplace and Materials
- The Workplace
- The Leather
- Tanning and Types of Leather
- How Do You Find Good Leather?
- The Thread
- Natural and Man-Made Materials
- Twisted and Braided Thread
- Preparing the Thread
- The Tools
- Cobbler's Knife
- Round Knife
- Cobbler's Hammer
- Wing Divider
- Edge Beveler
- Stitching Groover
- Grooving Tool
- Needles
- Lacing-Stitching Pony
- Bone Folder
- Spokeshave for Leather
- Awls
- Stitching Wheel (Stitching Interval Marker)
- Glue
- Drive Punches / Punch Pliers
- Chamfer Tool
- Buckles
- Materials for Buckles
- Simple Buckles
- Roller Buckles
- Double-Bar Buckles
- Plate Buckles or Conchos
- Fundamentals
- Snap Fasteners and Rivets
- Mounting Snap Fasteners
- Button Studs (a.k.a. Button or Round-Head Rivets)
- Setting Rivets
- Marking and Cutting Out Leather
- Marking Leather
- Cutting Out Leather
- A Simple Seam
- What Makes a Good Seam
- Fastening the Leather for Sewing
- How to Pierce the Holes
- Sewing
- Trimming a Seam
- Binding Threads
- Sewing Leather Straps Together
- Projects
- Sewing a Belt
- Finishing an Edge
- What Makes a Good Belt
- Sewing on a Buckle
- Setting a Rivet for a Pack Strap
- Sewing a Dog Leash
- Finishing the Dog Leash
- Sewing a Belt Bag
- Sewing a Knife Sheath
- Sewing a Quiver-Style Sheath
- Sheath for a Bowie
- Sewing a Leather Holster
- What Really Matters
- Measuring
- Sewing
- Wet-Forming
ISBN: 978-0-7643-5744-2
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