Belt Pouches

[wildmanh]

After reading Gary W. Graley 's Buck 112 WIP thead a few times I desided to try my hand at making some belt pouches. So far I've made three 1911 Mag pouches and five Flashlight pouches.

Thought I'd share my two most recent pouches with you all. First we have a 1911 Magazine pouch. The front was wet molded using some 7-8oz leather and the back I used 8-9oz. I used Fiebings Professional Oil Dye in Dark brown. The 7-8oz leather didn't take the dye like normal but IMO turned out pretty cool non the less:

And here is the back. It turned out as expected:

Now we have an Inova X1 flashlight case. This was made from 9-10oz leather because thats all I had on hand at the time I made it. I used Tandy's Bison brown stain on this one:

And here is the back:

Gary was correct, you sure have to be careful when you dye wet molded leather. Parts of the leather take the Dye much different then other parts. This last week has been a great learning experience for me and can't wait to learn more. Thanks for looking and as always comments/questions are welcomed and apreciated.

Heber

 

[sheathmaker]

Heber, the molding and boning process tempers the leather. That is it compresses the fibers and gives the leather that slick smooth look on the top grain. It will then take the dye or any liquid including oil or water at much different rate depending on how much a given area was tempered. Oil will eventually level out, but the dye and water both dry or evaporate before the leveling has time enough to be complete.

Paul