My Wonderful New Sporran

**HippieLee** · 9th December 13, 04:54 PM

Thank all you guys for the answers! Maybe I'll leave the pinking for later lol...I might be able to manage brogue holes though - I have lots of punches and a wing divider and compass...Seriously beautiful work!

**MacGumerait** · 10th December 13, 01:35 AM

Originally Posted by HippieLee

Thank all you guys for the answers! Maybe I'll leave the pinking for later lol...I might be able to manage brogue holes though - I have lots of punches and a wing divider and compass...Seriously beautiful work!

HippieLee , if you have a fabric store nearby , ask them to show you " pinking shears " and perhaps ask them to demonstrate them . It's a type of scissors used to give this effect on fabric . This might help you a bit . Pinking shears aren't recommended for most leather ... just fabric , although it might help you on the concept of the scalloped edge and the " pinking " edge design .

Cheers , Mike

**Nathan** · 10th December 13, 09:21 AM

This is yet another masterpiece. A gorgeous bespoke sporran. So impressed. Always so impressed. One of the things delaying me from ordering one is deciding what I actually want! So many options!

**HippieLee** · 10th December 13, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by MacGumerait

HippieLee , if you have a fabric store nearby , ask them to show you " pinking shears " and perhaps ask them to demonstrate them . It's a type of scissors used to give this effect on fabric . This might help you a bit . Pinking shears aren't recommended for most leather ... just fabric , although it might help you on the concept of the scalloped edge and the " pinking " edge design .

Cheers , Mike

I was wondering about those - I saw them online but all the ones I saw specifically said for fabric but I also saw some reviews were the people said theirs were good for heavy fabric and I wondered if heavy fabric might be relatively equatable to very thin leather...they had triangles and scallops...

either that or get good at metal-work along with leather! lol

**artificer** · 10th December 13, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by HippieLee

I was wondering about those - I saw them online but all the ones I saw specifically said for fabric but I also saw some reviews were the people said theirs were good for heavy fabric and I wondered if heavy fabric might be relatively equatable to very thin leather...they had triangles and scallops...

either that or get good at metal-work along with leather! lol

Unless it's a fabulous pair of pinking shears AND your leather is both very firm of hand and thin you're better off not bothering.
If the leather is too soft it just mushes through the blades, and obviously if it's too thick you're going to have uneven cutting and such.

Plus, it's impossible to find a good pinking shears with anything other than the sawtooth zig-zag cutting profile.

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**HippieLee** · 10th December 13, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by artificer

Unless it's a fabulous pair of pinking shears AND your leather is both very firm of hand and thin you're better off not bothering.
If the leather is too soft it just mushes through the blades, and obviously if it's too thick you're going to have uneven cutting and such.

Plus, it's impossible to find a good pinking shears with anything other than the sawtooth zig-zag cutting profile.

ith:

Lol, I figured that was just way too easy...nobody would buy a 100 dollar punch or a pinking wheel rig for hundreds of dollars if a 15 dollar pair of scissors would do the job.

I'm assuming a punch would have to be 1 single crescent so you can do any size arc...I'm gonna have to save up - I doubt my metal working skill will get me very far.