Suggestions for first project please

[Bernie]

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

[Martin]

Why not make a purse or a tinder pouch?

Martin

[Tony1948]

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.

[Bernie]

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?

[Tony1948]

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.

[andy202wr]

Make a straight forward knife sheath.

http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt153/andy202wr/outdoor%20sport/bushcraft/DSCF2822.jpg

Or a axe cover

http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt153/andy202wr/outdoor%20sport/bushcraft/DSCF2821.jpg

Simples peeps!!

[andy202wr]

Some easy sheaths.

http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt153/andy202wr/outdoor%20sport/bushcraft/DSCF2890.jpg

Half an hour to fourtyfive min. each one.