Category: Leather Working

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 am going to make leather pull up grips to be used for another more active hobby of mine: CrossFit. The hand grips protect your hands while doing pull ups or holding a barbell. If there is not enough callus built up on your hands, then these leather pull up grips are

Check out this video to see if you won the leather giveaway and will receive an extensive package of pieces of leather, cut to size to develop your leather breading skills. If you won, you will receive a piece of leather large enough to make your own bracelet, but also a braided example and three

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

My old strop needs a replacement, so in this video I will make a brand new double sided paddle strop using basic woodworking techniques. Both sides will have vegetable tanned leather attached to it: top grain up on one side, suede side up on the other side. This paddle strop takes a coarse and fine

When you need to cut leather straps, you need a strap cutter. I like to build my own leather working tools, so in this video I will show you how to make a leather strap cutter. It is an easy woodworking project, for my leatherworking hobby. The result is a wonderfully working strap cutter that

This time I am learning a new leatherworking technique: wet molding leather. With wooden molds I make sheaths for three of my Victorinox Swiss Army knives out of veg tan leather.

This weeks project is a leather sunglasses case. It will be made out of thick vegetable tanned leather and it will be very sturdy to keep my fragile glasses safe. You can find the free template by clicking the link below:https://www.tonyneedshobbies.com/plans/leatherworking/

A month ago I took a bladesmithing class and learned how to make a viking knife. In this video I will take on another leather working project: make a leather sheath for that extremely sharp hand forged knife.