Sporran Project

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I've had this beautiful hide lying around for a while waiting to be made into a sporran. So, this past week while snowed in, I decided to start cutting on it and this is what happened.



The hide was 10 oz leather. Not exactly what you want to build a sporran out of so I had to do a lot of skiving to get the edges thin enough and to make the gusset flexible enough to curve. I didn't get the gusset quite thin enough, but maybe in the future I'll break it down and fix those types of issues. It's a bit too wide below the cantle but not too bad for a first try.

The Cantle came from UT Kilts run by Brice Lythgoe. Some of you may have his sporrans. It was a really unique cantle so I pulled the trigger and had it in 3 or 4 days. Suddenly this project was looking like it could be done in time for our Burns Supper this weekend.



Here's a few more pics of the details. All in all I'm pleased with the results. I learned a lot from this one. I've also got a antique nickle cantle like this one to do a black sporran with so I expect that one will turn out much better with the tweaks I learned on this one.





Lots of room in side for my wallet, keys, phone, and a few other small items, and the opening is big enough to get my hand in and not be like the monkey who gets his fist caught in the jar trying to get the cookie out.