#finnleyleather

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I'm so, so proud of this one. My first leather project where I completely hand drafted the pattern after my own design. It came out perfectly. A gift for a dear friend of mine who is a big LotR fan.

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Update on the bag restoration!

Behold the before and after

I started cleaning it and then noticed that the stitching had disintegrated in some places, so I decided to completely take it apart and give it a deep clean

I brushed off any excess dirt and then scrubbed the leather with warm water and saddle soap. In hindsight, I could probably have done several more scrubs to get the grime out, but since it was untreated, vegetable tanned leather on a bag older than myself, most of it was deeper than just the surface. I cleaned the nickel components with rubbing alcohol to remove tarnishing.

After it had dried I oiled the outside, because the leather dries out while cleaning, which makes it brittle. When that had soaked in, I stitched the bag back together with white waxed polyester cord (I couldn't get my hands on proper linen cord, sadly) and waxed the surface to waterproof it.

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First set of leather goggles done 💕💕

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Living my best artificer life and made myself more leather goggles! I'm geeking out the most over the fact that my loupes fit on them \o/

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I found this old leather bag at my dad's and I just wanted to give it a little tlc, but as soon as I started cleaning I saw the stitching had disintegrated in some places.

Sooo I guess I'm doing a full restoration on this one 🤣

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Got everything prepared for my second set of leather goggles! Will do assembly later today and hopefully take some nice pictures

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I turned my smartwatch into a pocket watch, because my skin kept getting irritated when I wore it on my wrist.