The leather project that didn't survive the process

[qncygnnr]

The Garcia V2 pocket sheath was coming along well - today was the day the actual assembly was going to start. It started well and ended horribly! The stitches pulled through the leather top pieces. When I skived the flesh side edges to get the leather to lay flat ... everything was fine. When I decided to groove that same area on the top side so that the stiches would lay flat ... well, that was when the train jumped off the tracks. The last two pictures show the areas where you can see the center leather piece (veg tan heavy leather) as flecks of orange. I just got my groover and I just had to try it - I learned the hard way. I was so concerned about stitching too close to the edges of the center piece that I didn't even think about the outer pieces until it was too late. You can't ungroove leather. The outer pieces are so structurally weak that I had to pull the plug.

Anybody else ever have a "perfect" project that went down the drain? What did you learn from the experience?

 

[rayban]

I have a box full of leather goods ( or bads) that took a turn for the worse somewhere along the way....I still throw one in from time to time.
The good news is that you identified the boo boo you made, and you won't do that one again.
Just don't get discouraged, let's see the next one.

 

[Clem Kadiddlehopper]

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The Garcia V2 pocket sheath was coming along well - today was the day the actual assembly was going to start. It started well and ended horribly! The stitches pulled through the leather top pieces. When I skived the flesh side edges to get the leather to lay flat ... everything was fine. When I decided to groove that same area on the top side so that the stiches would lay flat ... well, that was when the train jumped off the tracks. The last two pictures show the areas where you can see the center leather piece (veg tan heavy leather) as flecks of orange. I just got my groover and I just had to try it - I learned the hard way. I was so concerned about stitching too close to the edges of the center piece that I didn't even think about the outer pieces until it was too late. You can't ungroove leather. The outer pieces are so structurally weak that I had to pull the plug.

Anybody else ever have a "perfect" project that went down the drain? What did you learn from the experience?

What happens when you/we/ ME have this happen BAD or Good you learn from it. You can learn what NOT to do , as you have done here. And you can also learn what to do when things go the right way.
I think that's were practice makes perfect. The more you do - the more you learn.
Keep making them.