Top leather working YouTube videos by Bruce Cheaney Leathercraft
Leather tooling basics tutorial for beginners with Craftools and other select leathercraft tools
Leather tooling basics tutorial for beginners with Craftools select leathercraft tools. Learn to tool and carve leather with this video tutorial here on YouTube. I like and use Craftool leather stamping tools and here are the ones you can get to get started Craftool A888 Background Tool and Matting Tool, Craftool B802 Coarse Beveler, Craftool B803 Coarse Beveler, Craftool C426 Camouflage Tool, Craftool P212 Pear Shader, Craftool V715 Shell Tool, Craftool V400 Veiner.
Barry King Swivel Knife Barrel
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Tooling and Carving Leather
Hand tooling and carving leather is fun and rewarding once you get your technique figured out and have the right leather tools for the job.
LEATHER BURNING TUTORIAL FOR BEGINNERS – PYROGRAPHY ON LEATHER
A simple leather branding tool for burning designs into leather. Watch this tutorial as I burn two banners and the words leather and craft into a thick piece of saddle skirting cut to the shape of Texas.
Leather Working ✔ How to make leather knife sheaths – Session 2 – Leathercraft
Leather Working Tutorial. Leather working tools and leather for making your own handmade knife sheaths. Knife Blade Review and Knife Sheath Making Tutorial. Gluing and sewing handmade leather knife sheath. Leathercraft and leather working tutorial showing you how to make your own handmade knife sheath that will work for pocket knives and hunting knives.
How to Stamp Leather Patterns Leathercraft Tutorial | Custom Leather Designs
How to Stamp Leather Patterns Leathercraft Tutorial | Custom Leather Designs. This is leather stamping tutorial that I will show you how to stamp a running W type border tool made by Craftool. The part number for the Craftool I am using is a number D74400 marked CRAFTOOL USA. The leather maul I like and use is made by Maul Master and is the economically priced mauls sold by The Weaver Leather Company. The part number for the maul I use in this YouTube Video is 65-2334 and it weighs 2 lbs and has 1-5/8″ striking surface. I also have the lighter Maul Master II and it weighs 22 oz. and it has the same width striking surface. I use the lighter maul for beveling and background work on my tooling and caving projects. I start off by marking a 3/8″ channel and cut the border with my Barry King Leather Tools swivel knife. I like cutting a border like this because it gives depth to my stamping design. Have patience with this leather tool and practice on some scrap leather before you do your actual leathercraft project. A running border stamp like this works and looks good on saddles, belts, guitar straps, billfolds, purses and many other custom leather projects.
How to Make Leather Rings – EASY
Leather ring making start to finish. Pattern making and how to hand cut your leather rings and put unique designs on them. It really does not take a lot of leather working tools to get started. Bruce Cheaney Leathercraft.
Leather working tools I use are; Leather craftsman knife with curved blade, C.S. Osborne scratch awl and compass, 7iron rubber cutting matte plus a few more tools you will see in the video.
Leather tooling and carving tools are Barry King swivel knife and for beveling leather I use Craftools made by Tandy.
Leather for making your leather rings should be firm vegetable tanned leather 4 to 5 ounce or 5 to 6 ounce this will help the ring maintain it’s shape.
A few resources for vegetable tanned leather are Springfield Leather Company, Montana Leather Company and Maverick Leather Company.
Leathercraft – Sewing leather wallet
Today I am making and sewing a simple style handmade leather wallet and machine stitching the wallet on my Cowboy CB4500 harness stitcher machine. The sewing machine thread I am using is white polyester size 346 and the needle in the machine is made by Schmetz made in Germany and is size 200. If you would like to use a smaller size thread you might consider size 207 and a size 180 Schmetz needle. The Cowboy CB4500 has a Servo motor which enables you to sew at the speed that is comfortable for you. I have sewn thick and thin leather with this machine and it works great for me.
Leather Stamping Tutorial – Craftool Leather Stamps – Leather Tools – Leathercraft Secrets
Some of my YouTube subscribers have expressed that they like the longer leathercraft tutorials so here is a leather stamping tutorial that shows you how to stamp designs into leather with just seven hand picked tools.
Hand Sewing Leather How to Hand Stitch Handmade Knife Sheaths with Leather Craftsman Bruce Cheaney
Leather stitching techniques for hand sewing leather.
6 Leather Tooling and Carving Tools for Beginners – Introduction to Floral Carving – How to Tutorial
One swivel knife and four leather stamping tools and a poly maul are all you need to get started with tooling and carving leather designs.
How to Carve Letters Into Leather – Leather Craft Gift Ideas
In this leather tooling and carving video I am making a couple coffee coaster’s as a gift to my friend Tom Kelcullen Poet and Leatherworker. The leather stamping maul I am using is the one I started out using over fifty years ago. The swivel knife I like and use most all of the time is a Barry King brass barrel with a quarter inch wide and narrow straight blade. I use Craftool bevelers both B802 and B803 they are the best for me.
Leather Bracelet Making – Easier Than Leather Mystery Braid Cuff
How to make your own leather wristbands and bracelets with just a few good quality leather working tools. The leather I am using is called English Tan Bridle Leather and is around four ounces thick and one half inch in width. One of my main resources for leather tools and supplies is Tandy Leather I also use a couple other leather suppliers but to get started Tandy pretty much has everything you need in one place to get started with your leathercraft and leather working.
The button studs I am using are the extra small ones in antique brass finish I also like and use brass and black. The corresponding buttonhole punch for the 1/4″ 7 mm (extra small) is the Craftool number 3779-03 .
The Craftool number 3780-00 leather tool is handy for slighty rounding the end of the bracelet / wristband.
Leathercraft Hack – BLADES and HANDLES
This video shows you leatherworking knives I use every day. Curved stub blades work the best for me and I think you will like them also. Here is a saddles makers secret your cutting pad makes a big difference in the life of your knifes cutting edge. A softer cutting pad like I use will keep your knife blade sharper longer. When sharpening your curved blade knife do not worry about the curved blade because it sharpen easily and fast. I use a India stone and the a Black Hard Arkansas for the finishing touch. I just got the LOCK-JAW T-1230_HNDL and am still learning how to use it one thing I really like about it is it really keeps the curved blade in place and it does not slip out.
Probably one of the neatest knife hacks is the Tandy Leather Flat-Side awl haft that actually holds the curve stub knife blade and the replacement curved blades that you can purchase for several different resources.
You may get a kick out of the Hyde Tools knife blades that I found after I put them up for forty years. They are No. 2 curve stub 23 gauge by Hyde Tools made in USA.
Weaver Leather Supply Hardwood Handle Round Knife for Leather Working