Leatherwork?

[thegamekeeper2]

Anyone else on here do it?

Cheers
Dave

[meebo1]

I have made some book covers and bookmarks in the past, though that is quite a long time ago

[thegamekeeper2]

I was just wondering if fellow leather workers still suffer from "The painful hands"?
Particularly when hand sewing!!

[meebo1]

I never did enough to suffer
But I have to be careful when knitting - doing too much will make my wrists hurt

[thegamekeeper2]

I've just finished another cartridge bag & I feel like sticking my hands in the freezer!!

Not good. Definitely don't want to go down the road of purchasing a sewing machine - items wouldn't be hand made in my eyes.

[bluebedouin]

Anyone else on here do it?
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I was just wondering if fellow leather workers still suffer from "The painful hands"?
Particularly when hand sewing!!

I used to do it many moons ago,I remember the painful hands well!
I did have a play around with some wristband ideas a couple of years back but never carried on with them.


I had a quick look at some of your items & the pics weren't that clear.Have you tried scanning them?The two pics above were scanned.

[thegamekeeper2]

Hi, nice work.

Which items?

All pics are taken using a 10mp Canon so hopefully they're clear, if not I'll have a look & sort.
Dave

[bluebedouin]

..Which items?
...

Mainly the leather bookmarks,the individual designs don't stand out.Here's three:-
22946453
22946460
22946457

[thegamekeeper2]

Many thanks, that'll be the 90 degree flash effect!!

[JaBek1]

I tinker a bit with all sorts of craft ideas. I do find that doing beadwork on deer skin is hard on the hands. Of course, at my age it doesn't take much to get the joints aching.

I once built a coffee table and had to cut 12 thru mortises using only hand chisels. I thought I'd never get my fingers to straighten out again.