Category: Arts and Crafts

A while ago I made a leather strap cutter on this channel. Since then many people have asked me how the blade is installed exactly, since this wasn’t clear from the video. I hope this video shows better how to install the blade in the handmade leather strap cutter. Be sure to also check out

In this video I will show you how to make a beautiful hand tooled and carved bifold wallet. The wallet will get a Western floral pattern carved and tooled into it. Even with limited leather carving and tooling experience I’m pretty confident you can make a similar wallet too. Just get yourself some vegetable tanned

It’s Christmas time so it’s time to prepare some gifts for my family and friends. I can’t imagine a better gift than wonderful homemade soap. That’s what I am going to make in this video. For the first time I am going to try to use pigments in soap. I will use red, green and

I love coffee and leather, so why not combine the two? In this video I am going to try leather carving and tooling for the very first time. In order to be able to stamp and tool I need a good working surface. The best natural stone for that purpose is either marble or granite.

This easy to make leather valet tray is a simple leatherworking project that can be made in under an hour. Since I didn’t have that much time lately, it easily fit in my schedule and is a lot of fun to make. This veg tan leather catchall can hold a lot of every day carry

Today it’s time to make a leather NATO strap for my beautiful Hamilton Khaki Pilot Day Date automatic watch. The history of both Hamilton watches and NATO straps is quite interesting so this watch deserves a stunning leather NATO strap. The specific leather I am going to use for this project is dark brown pull

In this video I will demonstrate how the mystery braiding technique for leather works. For the demonstration I am going to make bracelets out of brown dyed veg tan leather and black nubuck. The video will clearly show how to braid leather in the so called mystery braid. Since I am very proud that my

For a couple of years the art of making shoes has been on my mind. Making shoes with the Goodyear construction of Blake stitch method is too difficult for a beginner. On Kickstarter I found a kit to make sneakers: SneakerKit. After thinking about buying this for 1 minute, I ordered one of these shoe

After some instructions and experiments I managed to make an awesome acrylic pour painting using the open cup technique. If you follow me along in this video, I will show you how I did it and give you some helpful tips on stuff including amount of paint and oil for the best cells. It’s very