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Iron Heart Fall/Winter 2025 Collection Preview - Now Live

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    Lucifer
    Joined: 31 Aug 2011

    Thanks 🙂

    Quick leather and design related question to you guys:

    I'm making a smaller, more satchel-like bag now (no side-pockets, small front-pocket, camera + 1-2 lenses + ipad bag), I was originally planning on just keeping it veg-tanned natural. Any reasons not to? Will it just look weird? Alternative is to dye it burgundy or mahogny.

    Seize the day and don't you cry.

    last edited by 18 Jan 2012, 11:28 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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      injunjack
      見習いボス
      Joined: 19 Feb 2010

      Keep it natural. It will darken beautifully.

      last edited by 18 Jan 2012, 12:38 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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        ChuckDenim
        Joined: 16 Mar 2011

        Today I want to introduce you my new wallet.
        Made by the little leathershop here in Dresden, that made my belts too.
        I made the patterns out of paper and they made it after my advice.
        It was the first time they made something like that and it´s not perfect in all details but I´m very happy with the result, especially for the price I had to pay.

        The zipper is from a old pair of my flare Levis.

        last edited by 18 Jan 2012, 15:03 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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          Lucifer
          Joined: 31 Aug 2011

          As good as done with the smaller/more minimalist bag:

          Seize the day and don't you cry.

          last edited by 19 Jan 2012, 06:17 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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            Finn666
            Joined: 20 Jan 2011

            both items do look great. Chuck it´s always nice to have such an artisan around the corner…would love to have something similar down here...

            last edited by 19 Jan 2012, 10:35 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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              Lucifer
              Joined: 31 Aug 2011

              All done:

              (stitching the shoulder strap was a bitch 😕 )

              Seize the day and don't you cry.

              last edited by 21 Jan 2012, 23:31 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                jacoavlu
                Joined: 17 Dec 2010

                wow that looks nice lucifer. bet it will look even better in 5-10 years

                last edited by 21 Jan 2012, 23:56 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                  Lucifer
                  Joined: 31 Aug 2011

                  Thanks guys! Really looking forward to evolution on this one 🙂 (have made a matching wallet and iphone case.. 😛 )

                  Seize the day and don't you cry.

                  last edited by 22 Jan 2012, 08:23 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                    obbigood
                    Joined: 16 Dec 2011

                    did nothing recently, so just showing what I am I had made previously and still using now.

                    Burnishing edges

                    Hand Stitching

                    Machine stitch and the thickness of the strap.

                    Brand Website: www.obbigoodlabel.com
                    Webshop: www.ruggedgentlemenshoppe.com

                    last edited by 28 Jan 2012, 11:26 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                      Lucifer
                      Joined: 31 Aug 2011

                      Love both items!

                      I think watch straps are among the hardest to get right. Have made a few prototypes.. 🙂

                      Seize the day and don't you cry.

                      last edited by 28 Jan 2012, 13:03 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                        hectic
                        Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                        Nerdy craftsmen, check this out: http://www.raspberrypi.org/

                        These come "bare" i.e.: not cased. I think there is a nice opp here for a secondary market milled alu/wood/steel case (or whatever material).

                        I am getting a couple of the Raspberry Pi and I would buy a nice case in a heartbeat.

                        N.B.: Bonus geeky relevant William Gibson excerpt:

                        "It started with a woman who was an interface designer,’ Chia said, glad to change the subject. ‘Her husband was a jeweller, and he’d died of that nerve-attentuation thing, before they saw how to fix it. But he’d been a big green, too, and he hated the way consumer electronics were made, a couple of little chips and boards inside these plastic shells. The shells were just point-of-purchase eye-candy, he said, made to wind up in the landfill if nobody recycled it, and usually nobody did.

                        So, before he got sick, he used to tear up her hardware, the designer’s and put the real parts into cases he’d made in his shop. Say he’d make a solid bronze case for a mini disk unit, ebony inlays, carve the central surfaces out of fossil ivory, turquoise, rock crystal. It weighed more, sure, but it turned out a lot of people liked that, like they had their music or their memory, whatever, in something that felt like it was there….

                        'And people liked touching all that stuff: metal, a smooth stone…. And once you had the case, when the manufacturer brought out a new model, well, if the electronics were any better, you just pulled the old ones out and put the new ones in your case. So you still had the same object, just with better functions….

                        And it turned out some people liked that too, liked it a lot. He started getting commissions to make these things. One of the first was for a keyboard, and the keys were cut from the keys of an old piano, with the numbers and letters in silver."

                        last edited by 30 Jan 2012, 17:07 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                          Jii
                          Joined: 4 Oct 2010

                          At home with the flu, so I decided to make a new strap for my watch.

                          AIAN HA-TO!

                          last edited by 31 Jan 2012, 11:25 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                            Finn666
                            Joined: 20 Jan 2011

                            now that´s awesome looking sir!…

                            last edited by 31 Jan 2012, 11:29 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                              Lucifer
                              Joined: 31 Aug 2011

                              Indeed!

                              Some day one of you guys have to show how you do the ends and bends to make them look so good.. 🙂 I think my main problem is using too thick leather to begin with..

                              Seize the day and don't you cry.

                              last edited by 31 Jan 2012, 12:11 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                                Jii
                                Joined: 4 Oct 2010

                                The strap end is cut totally freehand, got a very nice result this time. For the lug ends i just skiv (cut the leather thinner) at the point where the strap bends back on itself. I do it with a fresh blade every time for the best result.

                                AIAN HA-TO!

                                last edited by 31 Jan 2012, 12:49 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                                  hectic
                                  Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                                  Lovely. Are you making them to sell?

                                  last edited by 31 Jan 2012, 13:08 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                                    Jii
                                    Joined: 4 Oct 2010

                                    Well I have sold some, if you are interested shoot me a pm and I'll see if I can work something out. Don't have a lot of leathers at the moment but I guess I could whip up a strap or a few if there's interest.

                                    AIAN HA-TO!

                                    last edited by 31 Jan 2012, 13:20 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                                      hectic
                                      Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                                      Cool. Will PM

                                      last edited by 31 Jan 2012, 13:24 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                                        Finn666
                                        Joined: 20 Jan 2011

                                        first i need to buy a watch then i´m going to pm 😛

                                        last edited by 31 Jan 2012, 13:29 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                                          hectic
                                          Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                                          Post on the watch thread Finn, then we can bombard you with suggestions

                                          last edited by 31 Jan 2012, 14:14 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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