Calling All Leather Workers

[cavscout]

I received a few leather working tools for christmas in hopes I might save a few bucks by making my own belts and straps. My too set as of today includes:

The Tandy Strap cutter (the wooden one on their site)
#4 edge beveler
Mini- Punch Set ( 0 - 5)
Edge Kote (black)
Edge slicker (I picked up a nylon clothes line pully from Home Depot for $1.37 and monted it to a bolt to lock into a drill for slicking edges. Other wise these are about $2.50 +Shipping.)

Does anyone have any good links to leather working knowledge? I assembled a few but am always looking for more.

http://www.rudedogleather.com/classe...d1/4cord1.html
http://www.4hides.com/fullgrain.htm
http://www.sdtradingco.com/
http://www.saroftreve.com/wwl/braiding/braiding.shtml (I stumbled on this one, but be carefull surfing beyond the leather working pages )
http://www.ebingerleather.com/eblchome.htm
http://www.montanaleather.com/stitchinginstructions.htm
http://www.nwta.com/patterns/pdfs/291sporr.pdf
http://home.alltel.net/henryh/Make_H...ther_Belt.html

[furrycelt]

I used to get paid to make various leather goods. I worked for a short while at Old Salem in Winston-Salem, NC in the shoe maker's shop. A while back I tried to poke around online for leather related stuff, and didn't find much at all. Granted that was a while back, and the internet changes drastically overnight these days.

If you have any questions about it, I could help.

-ian

[Southern Breeze]

Here's a few that I have bookmarked.

http://leatherunltd.com/?source=google2
http://www.davidmorgan.com/dw_go_braidingsupplies.html

A while back my sister was needing info on braiding so I refered her this site-
http://www.saroftreve.com/wwl/braiding/braiding.shtml .I wasn't thinking when I did so. I got a very animated call from her about it! :grin:

[A Dhuglas]

Couple of others:

http://mysite.verizon.net/oldschooll...eatherbelt.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_15431_make-leather-belt.html

Tandy's 'Handstitching' book has a decent illustrated write-up too. Just ordered their 'Belts Galore' book to see what other pearls of wisdom are out there.