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    Question Suggestions for first project please

    Hi all

    I've got a few strips of leather I picked up cheap at the car boot. Most are pretty thick leather. I have a fork with sharpened prongs for marking out stitching, and I have a hole punch.

    With these few basic items, can you suggest a project for this first-timer that is both reasonably simple, and yet also useful?

    Thank you
    Bernie

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    Why not make a purse or a tinder pouch?

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    Hi Berie,you dont say how big the strips are? or how thick? big enuff 4 a sheaf,a belt,a rist band,let us now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony1948 View Post
    Hi Berie,you dont say how big the strips are? or how thick? big enuff 4 a sheaf,a belt,a rist band,let us now.
    Sorry for the late response on this (excuses / reasons omitted).

    They vary a little in thickness, but are about 2~3mm thick. Kinda like a decent/heavy belt. They're all about a metre long, and not much wider than a belt some sections are maybe 12cm wide, but only for a length of about 20cm.

    Is a sheath too ambitious? Is there something simpler I could start with?

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    Sounds like it's belt strips if you go on ebay and look under lethercraft you'll find some nice brass buckals pritty cheep, let us now how you get on.

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    Make a straight forward knife sheath.



    Or a axe cover



    Simples peeps!!
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    Some easy sheaths.



    Half an hour to fourtyfive min. each one.
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