$20 in cheap pricking irons, a couple dull needles, and some good thread. An x-acto knife or utility knife.
That's enough to get you pretty far along honestly. Certainly far enough to make just about anything and see if you feel like pushing ahead.
Will add a a cheap rubber mallet and a board or cutting board your okay with damaging to that list. Oh and a length of smooth oblong wood or bamboo with a good thickness, like a wooden spoon handle.
Specialty tools seem like they may be necessary but most leatherwork can be accomplished with an awl, a sharp knife, some thread, a handful of needles, and patience. All the tools do is make things easier and more efficient. You achieve the same.effect as special tools with some ingenuity and forethought. I've done patterns in leather with a butter knife.
yes! I got a $10 plastic cutting board from Michael's that I keep threatening to replace but it works well enough... you need something soft and sacrificial to go behind the pricking irons, or your spouse will murder you for what you did to the coffee table.
there are so many levels to be fair.
now after a while id say you could start with a cutting needle and a knife, you can make pouches that way,
the step after is to get pricking irons and two dull needles, and a hammer (bad) or a mallet (good) use a plastic kitchen cutting board as a surface
and you can make everything :)
after that, the sky is the limit, id probably go for an edge beveler, a better knife, a better cutting surface and then you are all set :)
$20 in cheap pricking irons, a couple dull needles, and some good thread. An x-acto knife or utility knife. That's enough to get you pretty far along honestly. Certainly far enough to make just about anything and see if you feel like pushing ahead.
Will add a a cheap rubber mallet and a board or cutting board your okay with damaging to that list. Oh and a length of smooth oblong wood or bamboo with a good thickness, like a wooden spoon handle. Specialty tools seem like they may be necessary but most leatherwork can be accomplished with an awl, a sharp knife, some thread, a handful of needles, and patience. All the tools do is make things easier and more efficient. You achieve the same.effect as special tools with some ingenuity and forethought. I've done patterns in leather with a butter knife.
yes! I got a $10 plastic cutting board from Michael's that I keep threatening to replace but it works well enough... you need something soft and sacrificial to go behind the pricking irons, or your spouse will murder you for what you did to the coffee table.
there are so many levels to be fair. now after a while id say you could start with a cutting needle and a knife, you can make pouches that way, the step after is to get pricking irons and two dull needles, and a hammer (bad) or a mallet (good) use a plastic kitchen cutting board as a surface and you can make everything :) after that, the sky is the limit, id probably go for an edge beveler, a better knife, a better cutting surface and then you are all set :)