Leather Shell cordovan patina

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kaizo

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Hi everyone I hope you are well. I am so sorry for being away for so long. Work commitments have made it hard for me to craft and the ones I do now are predominantly for my girlfriend. So bags, pencil case (which I made for her to be more studious but the joke's on me because she is using it as her makeup case!) etc...

Anyhow when I was rummaging through my leather supplies to see what I could use to make a watch strap I came across this! My old whiskey cordovan! The reason why I wanted to share this is because of the patina. The item on the left is my card case that I made 2 years ago (2nd leather project I have ever done) that I carried everyday for the past 2 years and the cordovan on the right is the piece that I have cut it out from. I was simply stunned by the difference!

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The cordovan is from Clayton leather and I think they are fairly good. Unfortunately, they stopped selling individual pieces so I can't buy it anymore (minimum order is 10 so will cost me about ~$1500) but given the chance, I would like to try some of their more unusual colours like green and navy.

My next project after the watch strap will be holsters. I really wanted to make one for a while now but because it was difficult to get one of those blue training guns to use as a mould I bought one of those 1911 pattern packs. Hopefully I will be able to make one soon :)

Thank you all very much for reading and I wish you all a lovely day! :)
 
Ain't it cool how good leather ages! Good to see ya buddy! That's too bad ya can't get that anymore.
 
Hi Dave! Thank you for the reply! :)

Yeah hopefully I will be able to budget it one day. It's by far my favourite leather, Cordovan really is extraordinary. You're lucky that you're across the pond, Horween's cordovan is top notch!!
 
Haha indeed! Well, you know what people say 'if the price is the only thing you have to apologise for you're off to a good start'. It's worth it! ;)
 
Kaizo, you don't have to wait for a blue gun to start making holsters. my first half dozen were made by lightly coating the gun in gun oil and wrapping in plastic food wrap. No problem with fit and gun stayed protected. rtmind/randy
 
Hi Randy thanks for your reply :)

Yeah, it's one of the drawbacks of being British, it's pretty hard to get firearms over here unfortunately. It's actually why I was trying to get a blue training gun. Given the chance however I would like to get a Kimber k6s and 1911 both beautiful guns (although when I had a chance to go down the range and tried out an M9 that was pretty good too).

Thank you for the advice, its really nice of you :)
 
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