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It hasn't been until recently - last year or so - that I have become more serious about leather work. Up until then it was more an adjunct to other pastimes/hobbies like shooting and the odd knife I made/collected. All my leather making tools and supplies were in a collection of shoe boxes and I usually operated on the kitchen table.
A couple of months ago I got fed up with unpacking and tidying up every time I worked on something & this is the solution which has worked out extremely well. From an online buy & sell site I picked up this writing desk second hand for $150 (about $110 US$).
I also do small wood carvings so this is a dual purpose work station.
 
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Nice set up, neat and organized. Thanks for sharing. I see you find emery boards useful too. I like that press you have sitting on top, who's the manufacturer?

Terence
 
That is a sweet set up! Thanks for posting it! :D
 
Thanks Terence & Dwayne.
Terence the emery boards are mostly for my wood carving but occasional see use on a rough leather edge. The awl press is my own creation - the ultimate in re-purposing.:)
 
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It's cleaner now, but it still looks basically the same.
 
Here's my area - my garage, like everything else it's a work in progress...
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Terence
 
Holy Crap thats nice!!! Now I know there's such a thing as shop envy. "I hate you" :p
 
Sky, that's a really nice and well thought out lay out. Set up for step by step for maximum out put potential. Nothing wrong with OCD for neat…it's just a very important part of the process.

Looking at your shop, is that two Cobra splitters in the back on the right??…..behind them it looks like maybe a 441 Clone heavy stitcher, and on the left I see a Boss in the foreground, but looks like more of the same lined up behind it. If so, set up for different colors or thread size?

Your custom hand stitch pony is neat also.

Not hard to see why you have a good production record.

Paul
 
Sky .... that is an amazing set up. It must be so nice to have a space like that to work in. I am just blown away!
 
leatherman said:
Holy Crap thats nice!!! Now I know there's such a thing as shop envy. "I hate you" :p
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I get that alot for some reason. :D



sheathmaker said:
Sky, that's a really nice and well thought out lay out. Set up for step by step for maximum out put potential. Nothing wrong with OCD for neat…it's just a very important part of the process.

Looking at your shop, is that two Cobra splitters in the back on the right??…..behind them it looks like maybe a 441 Clone heavy stitcher, and on the left I see a Boss in the foreground, but looks like more of the same lined up behind it. If so, set up for different colors or thread size?

Your custom hand stitch pony is neat also.

Not hard to see why you have a good production record.

Paul
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Good eye Paul, I have 2 of the Boss stitchers, They have to be overhauled from time to time and I can't be without one. The other machines in the background are Weaver's Little Wonders, snap, rivet and eyelet setters. I have 2 splitters for different weights, those machines are finicky and mine at least do not like the constant adjustment between weights so I ordered a second one to save time and frustration on my part. I have a class 4 and 17 for holsters that I couldn't fit in the pic off to the right, I think what you see back there is the dust collector next to the sanding bench with all the kydex stuff. I tried to set everything to work from back of the shop to shipping and out the door in the front.

That place is pretty much 5 years of constantly working and reinvesting back into it. When I started I could maybe do 10-12 sheaths per week if I hustled, Now I can do 75-90 depending on how old I am feeling that week.
I will have to pick all of this stuff up when we move next month but I will have twice the space when I land on the west coast again and can maybe get all this kydex gear I've been sitting on for the last couple years up and going finally.
 
Hey Claude, We are looking around Astoria to Long Beach. I like the quiet down there with all the hunting and hiking you could want and clam digging a stones throw away.

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Hey Sky were are you going to land at on the west coast. Man that is a well setup shop
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Sky must be a different Long Beach than the one down here. Quiet wouldn't be the term for the LBC. All the gunshots at night keeps a guy awake.
 
Directions to Long Beach, WA. Go to the end of the universe hang a left, it's the 3rd house on the right. :D
 
Hey Sky let me know when you get here and set up I will come down and see ya you are about 4.5 hours out
 
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