Leather Craft 1.0 • Basic Tools

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors shows you the basic tools needed to start leather working and demonstrates their uses and design.

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they were some turtles Creek here with black cow outdoors today's video is going to be sort of an introduction to some of the tools I've been using for my leather work but before getting to the tools I want to show you some things I've made to help give you an idea with what I have and my skills show you potentially what you can make if you have some of these tools so to start off here is a wet molded lighter holder pull this out see it's keeping its shape in there already priciest in a video saddle stitched riveted not going to using these rivets pretty much for anything anymore just for sake of strength but this is really nice I really like this wet molded

next we have keychain for my rig our rig keys snap here copper rivet down here from when you're using rivets it's going to be copper rivets from now on faces like a dangler almost about my keychain this is just a small card and cash holder really simple design natural veg Stan leather saddle stitched same stitching real slick in the pocket probably seen these on Instagram if you follow us on Instagram or Facebook this is a widemouth glass jar either wrapped to turn handle this is mine I've been using it like a steady drip it's our own here the ones I have been making and have it for sale are all stitched but I'm just trying out different stuff usually I keep the things I don't like I keep them and use them here is a older sheath I made months and months and months ago for the Brothers of bushcraft blade fire steel loop these reference again here so like a western-style she that kind of like this kind of fun looking at my old work seeing the mistakes or the skills I didn't have yet but still pretty proud of things I made five months ago sheathe for the SE for snap here this is the knife that cut me on my foot the reason why I got into leather work in the first place was because I had surgery drop this knife on my foot house I was sharpening it severed attendants so needed a new hobby since we'll be stuck inside and leatherwork one this was all handmade you can see back here this stitching see how walky that is just all punched through with an awl more than functional but she's more details of this real classic looking sheath for a survival knife and you've probably seen this Vuli this was in the dangler video I did we did not too long ago she for the more companion you ever seen me touch on this a lot talked a lot about this sheath in that video but this is the last sheath I made which is probably about three months ago four months ago at this point real excited to make some more my skills have progressed I have a scrap piece of leather with me here today to show you some of the tools I have and how they actually work on the leather so to start off you're going to need some cutting implements need some knives and here is a folding utility knife our cobalt is the company and it's important to have a very very sharp knife these are disposable blades but actually I strop these blades and yeah they don't hold the best edge but nonetheless it definitely sharpens them for the time being

and I have a smaller little exacto knife this is actually Excel the company but this is for smaller little detailed work these are two knives I use to actually cut out the patterns or let's do small little v 2 square I'll use a small executive style knife to to round off a square or something like that but basically obviously a sharp knife is used to cut through the leather and this is eight to nine ounce leather parents everything I've made so far as went out of eight to nine ounce leather barring I did actually get some six or seven ounce which the little card cash holder was made out of sharp knife is very important I use this even to cut round on this roundness on my card holders def is cut with this tude it's very slow and I scored a couple times to keep that rounded

so first of all you need a couple sharp knives I've actually used the more to cut some leather out when I was first starting but something like this works really well now the next tool is called an over stitch wheel there's actually two different sizes in the bag of these wheels and these sort of Peaks or spaced out different increments different ones so what you can do with this is actually can buy these things called rakes that I have sort of things set out but basically the way I can use it as decide which one I want to use say this is a side of my project and I want to set the stitching holes and go like this run this through it and then I have these little holes made a little spaced out stitching holes also once you're finished with your project or have done I'm stitching it I use waxed synthetic thread you can also take your every stitch we don't go back over what you just stitched just seed it a little bit nicer and I might come back to that cuz I want to show you something first that should assured it's just called a stitch groover and it's this cool little tool that has this is sort of just a a gazer or spacer depending on the side of whatever you want to use I'm sure that looks like but let me get another example

and basically what this does is put it over here

and as I sorta this will keep this at a given set distance from the edge and as I pull this on it it's taking it with that top piece of leather it's making a little stitch groove I keep going through this do it once with light pressure to make sure I'm staying good I can keep going over it now until I get a nice recessed stitching bed and what that does is obviously or maybe not obviously this will allow the stitching to sit flush or even below flush with the surface of the leather you try to get a profile this the other stitching is sitting down from that it might be arranged a little bit but what this does is to sit it down so it just protects the stitching from wear and wear this really comes in important is if you're making a sheath the underside of this the stitching that's on the belt loop that's you can Majan that's on the underside the inside of the sheath it's very important because when you're putting the knife and you don't want any rays stitching on the inside of the sheath that's what is the stitch groover and like you know just depending if you're going to put a second line in you can open this up a little bit go back to the piece

put a parallel line so if you're under two stitching beds as I'm backing up I'll show you stitching wheel again if I want to run this in here to put my spacing like I said you can do this with things I believe they're called rake sorbet this sort of just like something you'd punched through the leather and there's little prongs to keep it consistent because what I use so far I have been using depending if I'm going to using the Dremel too I will use the Dremel to stitch put holes or I'll use this scratch off the scratch awl is really nice for a few reasons you can put your pattern on top of the leather you can see I can make a shape let's imagine I'm tracing a pattern I can use it for that I can also use it to scratch surface if I'm going to be contact cementing something together to give a little glassy look rough it up give it some texture to help a better bind or bond excuse me you can use it to do that I can use it to punch through and I will I do use it to make holes in that a leather wrap mason jar you've seen but basically you know you use it just legging on use a mallet you know push through the material and keep moving

and actually since I'm here show you if I am going to be punching through leather with this I'm going to have at least one other layer of leather underneath my working piece you can continue this down very time-intensive using a single all like this but nonetheless it's more than possible to do it and this is pretty much one of the only times I'll use a machine to do anything is if I'm going to be drilling holes through really thick leather like on the knife sheath I'll use the Dremel for that but like I said there are some things where I use this to punch the holes and obviously in addition to the oil you need a mallet not a hammer you need a mallet this is like one of the cheaper ones from tandy you can get ones that are just basically rolled leather or you can get really really nice ones but this is one I've been using and it works okay for for the most part next we have some edge bevelers and there's two different types in here I'll show you what they actually do in a moment this is actually a rounded one and for instance let me show you on a project piece is that if you notice on these edges the rounded coming from the well and the rounded over

might be hard to see because it's dark but I'll show you on this my scrap leather is that when you take this on the side and say we have our stitch bed we establish that this is the distance we want it from the edge you want to do this after you use your stitch groover because once I push this see how it rounded that edge I like using this one this is sort of rounded the tool itself it's really small detail but it's rounded the cutting edge if you will is rounded concat convex concave depending which side you're looking at it which way you're holding it I like this one better just a little bit cleaner job to the edge but the other one I have is just a flat cutting surface and again it's to use the same exact way but it just is flat sort of gives a 45 degree angle supposed to rounding it a little bit better than the previous one I showed and these are all different sizes meaning it's this appropriate size is used on the thickness of leather because the size depends on pretty much how much leather it's taking how much leather it's taking off so you have thin leather obviously you don't reusing the same size as opposed to say 2 9 ounce leather and all these steps like I said for me personally things I've been making I'm trying to make them as nice as I possibly can that takes longer and it comes subsequently it'll cost more if I'm charging if I'm selling this but for me personally I want to make make the items as nice as I possibly can and as durable as I possibly can just keep that in mind as I'm showing things it's up to you to decide how good of I'm sorry how long you want to take how nice you want to make something the next tool I have here is a adjustable V gage v-gouge I believe it's car and this is adjustable to have ones that are just fixed depth and this one works okay and where this comes in handy is if I'm folding something over I'd use it on this on the inside before I fold this over and glue it and stitch it I'm using it on the underside of this to help give it a better fold and a little bit cleaner yeah basically fold over I'll show you that looks like so say I wanted to make a fold down here I could use my ruler to help me make my straight line if I wanted to but with some practice and get pretty good VC this is this gouging out section here make a gouge v-gouge in there and some people say you know you can make one right on the fold line other people say you should go to both sides of a fold line and make a little bit nicer it'll actually give you a little bit better of a fold said I run that through there and now I want to fold this that's really thick leather it makes a difference it was help it phone this is a really small piece of leather but you get the idea if it basically just takes out some material to allow it to fold a little bit better

I can even probably do some more they're my lines I just took out see I fold together basically summaries material like I said just to have it basically fold a little bit tighter on itself a little bit cleaner and more controlled all these thing you know this isn't completely necessary but on certain applications I believe it is like I said it's all up to you of how sort of detailed and quote nice you want to make your leather goods depending on obviously the tools you have and I do not have all the tools I could use for projects because the stuff gets expensive very quick the next tool is a rotary punch and you can see there's a wheel right here with different size holes diameters you can rotate this depending on what size you want they use this for from besetting rivets copper rivets to create the hole there's like maxy punch sets or something like that they're called wear basis looks like a post with different size but this is the rotary punch so I convenient because it keeps them all all together creates a hole for you you said depending on what you're using the size of work or if you're using a post you know

hang on the whole size you get the idea that's the rotary punch and have one more tool here that I'm going to show you which is a safety beveler I want that done the swords it's like you're splitting the leather if you need to this would be used on belts or a bell to fold over on itself or basically it's just meant for taking down the thickness of the leather if you're going to be folding it on so pinching it in certain applications and you just drag it to yourself so I might need to change this bleed out I really don't use this tool that much but basically it's just taking off the material to thin this out like I need to change the blade or sharpen it but said I don't use this one that much but depending what you want to make you're going to need something like this said just to make a little bit cleaner make your projects a little bit cleaner nicer so what I've shown you are the tools I'm going to actually use today that I believe are very important help give you some nice work I'm going to show you some other tools that are very important in making something but I'm not going to use them today because I just have scrap stuff but nonetheless they're still very important depending what you want to do starting here these are things that you can use to burnish well what's burnishing if you don't know what that means it's basically taking the raw edge of leather say this for instance see how rough it is blah blah blah you take your burnish or get it wet I can do specific videos this is sort of just an intro to uses of leather tools basically you get this wet or you can use it when it's dyed or use some gum tragacanth

because you do this with friction the heat created will seal this up and some methods so I have this is actually a ball tool turn tool this is some antler hab that I used as well that works pretty nice if you do that correctly you'll get a really nice seal and sheen on your edges you know what this edge looked like before it was dyed was really rough like this and I've sanded it sanded this down with some really fine paper but if you burnish it correctly you get a nice seal nice Sheen to it now steel your edges and just help protect and keep the sheath nicer for longer

and those are two things you can burner so I've actually used plastic use pencils anything smooth and hard to surface you're going to want to burnish to give yourself like I said just a nicer cleaner finished product beside that or a pair of needle nose pliers with no grooves in them at all and what I use this for is basically helping the pulling needles through very small holes pass a needle through something for instance

got a hole passing needle through it it's being stubborn held on to pull the needle that happens sometimes but I use this as I said just to help pull the needle and thread through small holes simple right here and moving on to all this hardware this stuff is important if you're going to be using rivets or snaps this I'll get it out just to show you and specifically if you're going to be using snaps whatever size snaps glove snaps segment snaps line snaps all those have very specific tools or setters that you need for each one so this can get very expansive depending on what you're going to be using what specific specific hardware you're going to be using this is a small anvil type deal these little obviously recessed little craters are meant to hold the cap or something like that of the snap or the rivet depending what you'll be doing this big ol guys used for copper rivets because I can think I can use it for all the size copper rivets lengthwise so I got this one

and small it like these other ones are meant for setting line 24 snaps see the ends are the important part versus the line 20 over here smaller one and like I said if you're going to be using all this stuff it's going to get pricey quick if you want to use all these different types of hardware but I just want to show you what you'll need and how much it can add up if you want to be making a lot of different types of things using different types of hardware and then lastly I'll talk about today is some contact cement which is a nice feature to give something strength I use this on everything and basically it before I stitch it I will these two pieces under side topside that was what formed I will glue these together with the stitch groove already in place what actually when it's glued then I'll do that but glue these together and let this cure for about a day sometimes I'll definitely not be that patient but let this cure for a day then start working on it

it just gives added strength the stitching will hold these pieces of leather together no problem but this just adds strength to the bond of the pieces which in turn will help longevity you just got to be careful if you use too much of this it will poke out through the seams I know this is dark I hope it will translate some Sheen but if you use too much of this through your pieces that will poke out through through the seams or where they're touching and you won't really get a clean sort of burnish because you'll have just pieces of contact cement popping through there this was just sort of intro type video of some of the tools how they're used what they look like to give you a better idea maybe give you some ideas if you want to get into leather work it's really difficult to sort of make an all encompassing video because there's so much involved with the leather project so that's why I try to keep this one sort of simple and skim over things even though I did go into detail about something so if there's any desire we could potentially try to do some some videos and actually making something from start to finish but because from beginning a blackout we set out to film everything outdoors it presents a problem but if it's really desired my brother and I could definitely figure out a way to do that so if you have any questions leave a comment below don't hesitate on those people watching this video that have pride just as much if not probably more experienced than me working with leather so you know start an exchange get some get some knowledge knowledge exchange this is correct signing out with black outdoors later Turtles you