How to Make a Leather Bifold Wallet
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This project video is about making a Leather Bifold wallet. I designed this wallet so that it is fairly easy to assemble with a lot of space to tool. Leather Wallets are fantastic gifts as well as just items that you can stock up on and sell at anytime.
We sewed one of these and buckstitched one in the video to show a different option of assembly if you don't have a sewing machine in your shop. If you have been wanting to make yourself a new wallet for some time, give this video a look and see if this design would work for you.
We have a DIGITAL Pattern Pack that is available on our website and if you would like a copy of that you can purchase that by Clicking this Link:
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The pattern pack has all the cut patterns for the wallet and insides, as well as 8 different floral patterns.
If you are interested in the double sided tape used in the video, contact Maker's Leather Supply:
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I use your antiquing method And as a newbie I will tell you that it looks great On my projects. I've only been working with leather 5 months and some of my best work are due to your videos. So, thank you.
I am fascinated by the hand tooling. I cannot imagine how many countless hours of work it took to attain that level of skill. It's crazy to me. Beautiful work man.
There's instructions
@@dentoniusx7916 you can follow the instructions and it will not look as good the first time or even the 20th time
Thanks Don, it's always good to watch you work.
How much would you price those wallets for? Someone in the comments asked about clicked dyes, Springfield Leather Co. makes custom dyes, I don't know how much they charge, but I have found them to be customer driven and very nice. I would tell them if your a Veteran.
Damn I wished I was an artist like you. I really struggle & have for years now with designs especially Sheridan or floral.
Don, I am always awed by your God given talent!
its a privilege and pleasure to watch your work,thanks to you sir
thank you for the video and sharing your knowledge, always enjoy them.
Another good one Don. Couple quick questions. Maybe I missed it, but what weight is the body?
Also do you not buff your dye areas before resisting? Assuming no issues with rub off without buffing?
I love your videos, you explain everything so well and easy to understand
Ditto. G-G.
What do you charge for the machine stitched wallet?
Didn't know that trick with antiquing. I was always a little disappointed that the colors just wouldn't pop. Now I know!! Tan Kote is my friend. :)
What is a fair price to ask for those wallets?
Another great video, I really like the information about where you source the materials and tools. Thanks again for all you do.
The sheepskin I have always leaves strands in the TanKote. It's also white instead of the yellow color yours has. Any suggestions/a place to order the sheepskin that you use? I've looked and can't find anybody who sells that kind/style. Thanks in advance!
What can of razor knife and blade do I use to trim the edges on this video and what is the yellow stuff do u use on the edges thanks and great learning videos buddy regards from Houston Tx.
Nice job Don
This is the best background music of any leatherworking video ever!
Love your videos, your so amazing with showing how to videos, pretty easy to follow along or refer back to, I've already made several money clip wallets from your patterns and I'm currently making the American flag wallet, which I want to buck stitch around
When and how do you attach the front three pieces, for cards, to the fourth piece that must open for bills?
You have been doing this way longer and better than me Don. But one suggestion. I do a fair amount of wallets of different styles. When you marked for your glue you should have run the edger over the bend much easier when flat. Just an idea if you want to try it out.
Good Evening, wondering what is the length and width of the Outer Tooled Leather and the inside leather? Thank You
Don, you have got to be one of the best video instructors for leatherworking that I have come across. Your description of each detail and why or why you don't do said technique. Thank you for that. I do know one thing for sure... You have definitely got good taste in music during this video.
Learn something new everytime!
good evening, where do you purchase your leather, you name some but i wasn't able to find online. Enjoy your presentation, detail and understanding
I have learned a lot from your videos and have downloaded a number of your project patterns including this one. I appreciate you sharing your expertise and have learned a lot from watching your instructional videos. However, with this particular pattern I discovered as I was preparing to sew the interior, that the "pouches" simply aren't wide enough to hold a credit card. I cut everything exactly to your specs and am wondering if perhaps I did something wrong. Has anyone else had this problem? It seems that I'll need to do it all again but make everything a little wider this time.
I missed something in you seeing this together it looked like you sewed the interior and exterior together on all sides. I couldn't figure out how you had an opening at the top to put money in. I am still confused even watching it a few times.
This got me puzzled also. Did you ever figure it out, Lisa?
Somethings off with the measurements in the pattern pack pattern, either you have to cut the pockets to 4 inches , which the pattern for the pockets measure 4 1/8 or you have to make the piece you put the pockets on longer, pattern not right
Where would you recommend going for clicker dyes?
Don, many thanks for your valuable videos. I really enjoyed watching all of them, because I have learn a lot . You are on the master level of the saddlers and you have a well equipped workshop. Congratulation.
Great tutorial, I love your style, Don. I am just starting my adventure with leathercraft, maybe someday I'll be half as good as you. Thanks again for all you do.
ola! gostaria de ver você fabricando um chinelo de couro bordado, seria um ótimo projeto!
I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. Great work and excellent information. I really appreciate you taking the time to make these videos.
I know this was made 3 years ago, but a die made for just one of those pockets is over 100 bucks.
Señor Gonzales. What is the difference or is there a difference between oiling before dyeing and oiling after the dye?
Ibreally like that vid. Great info and a quality vid.
What cloth do you use to buff out your projects
and what type of blunt tipped razer knife are you cutting with?
Se aprecia tu habilidad, pero creo yo que para que te ganes el 10 de aprovacion debe ser mas lento el video para saberlo apreciar. Gracias
Hola buenas, de que grosor es el cuero natural que utilizas para hacer las tapas de la cartera grabada. Muchas gracias y saludos desde España
Weaver Leather has Kangaroo leather too and black, brown and tan lace.
I am looking for your cross pattern to tool thst design for my console in truck
Great video Don! Headed for the pattern pack!
Where do you have dies made?
Great video thank you for showing it!
Do you use neatsfoot oil before you start carving?
Great video! Thanks
Do you sell these wallets if how do you go about buying one.
What black dye do u use
Thank you for the video !!! Love it !
How did u have a spot for cash if it was glued to the to the veg
Love the music! Who is it?
dont like the opening in the middle
could you use resolene as your resist?
Thanks! I always learn.
don, im trying to make this wallet, why is the pockets measure 4 1/8 in and the piece that you line the pockets on measures 4 in with about a half an in in the middle?
is that so you can trim the overage
I am looking to buy a leather sewing machine. What kind of sewing machine do you have? I feel whatever kind of machine a good leather tooler, such as you, has, that should be a good machine.
Leather Machine Co Class 26 and/or the Class 4. I'm pretty sure Don uses a Class 4
This is a Genuine question, Not a criticism. Do you reply to our questions? I didn't notice any responses in the threads. Pardon my Frank, I just don't want to talk to brick walls. YOUR TALENT IS AMAZING!
Your work is amazing! I really love that kangaroo leather, where can I find materials used especially that kangaroo leather ☺️ TIA!
Excuse me, but, this is just a credit card holder not a wallet. Love your work and enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
When China available in the 🌍 then such kind of hand crafted are not value or much extra ordinary, sorry never mind. I’m talking the universal truth, they have been make it by automatic machine as well with very low cost,
However appropriate your work,
Don, I usually dye the opening of the wallets. I found that you really don’t notice the hole when dyed. Best regards, Richard
Hey Don, I'm just starting my adventure in leather crafting, love your tutorials, hope I can do as good as you one day. Love the bifold wallets. Tina
Don, I hand sew everything because I don’t have a heavy duty sewing machine. I used the double faced tape on some of my projects and found that it gummed up my pricking punches and also my sewing needles. I had to use my awl to open up the holes because the tape shut the holes. So it really wasn’t any faster than using cement.
Hi Don, this is Heather and I love your videos like Sandra says they are REALLY the best. I have bought these wallet pattern from you and am making them now, I had to watch the video again to see the buck stitching. I really do enjoy that. Thanks. Blessings
Brother you're one of the best in the business, if not the best...I've changed my style completely and am 100 times better maker than I ever was before...
Awesome video. It was a pleasure to watch your gifted hands creating something beautiful.
Greetings from Germany ✌🏻
Sheesh.. FINALLY someone using a "3" prong buck stitch punch .. been saying for years to the new folks .. it goes much faster and easier to pull from the leather . Priceless works of art Don thanks for sharing
Always a pleasure to view your informative videos Don. I didn't catch your needle and thread size for the CLASS 4. I just got mine delivered and am ready to start it off with this project. Thanks again Don!!! P.S. I know your thread is probably 207.
Don, just as a matter of coincidence, if you have access to a wholesale art framing supply or retail store such as Hobby Lobby, Dick Blick, or other craft stores, they usually sell or have access to order that same tape you are using in your video. I owned and operated a wildlife art gallery and custom framing shop for a number of years, after another career in autobody repair and painting came to a medical end for me, and I ordered that tape in quarter and half inch rolls by the case for assembling matboards to each other for matting and framing posters and certain types of prints for my clients and all sorts of other odd jobs around the gallery and framing shop. In the framing field it is referred to as ATG tape and, if you Google that generic name you will find pages of places to buy the tape. As a business man though, you would easily qualify for wholesale purchases from most gallery or framing suppliers. If you need to find a framing wholesaler, I can steer you in the direction of businesses from whom I purchased most of my framing supplies including 3M ATG and other useful supplies for the leather worker. Ask for their current catalog when you get hooked up and you will be surprised at some of the similarities in the supplies used in both fields.
One more item, I was curious as I watched you sand the edges of both of your wallets, it looked like you had a really rough grit of sandpaper, maybe 40 or 80 grit paper like we used in shaping and prepping body filler prior to final sanding, priming, and finishing a collision repair?? Was I missing something or is that not a bit rough for sanding prior to edging and slicking leather?
Unbelievable Masterpiece! Gorgeous wallets. Best regards, Richard
Can you explain about best sewing machine to make all Leathercarft... and type of leather material to use belts and wallets... Thank you so much and congratulations for what to do 👍🏻
WOW gorgeous! I was mesmerized by your craftsmanship. This almost made me want to switch back to a bifold wallet from a money clip.
Brother you an an amazing artist!! I am just learning~Please could u do a trifold wallet?
Hey there Don. Excellent video you made there, can really see you have pride in your work and know what you are doing. I've been needing a new wallet and a couple of proper leather belts (shops seem to sell polyurethane 2 ply) for a few years now but I always hating changing wallets because it takes so long to get used to everything being in different places. Seeing as I'm a carpenter/jack of all by trade, probably having at least some of the tools, love to try new projects and get out of my comfort zone, i thought about making my own but I'm concerned it won't be good enough, I've never really worked with leather before. its something that will be with me all day every day for hopefully a decade or more and will be seen by many people most of all me.
If i do a bad job it will be a constant reminder for many years. I'd love people to think favourably about it and comment on it and I would like to honestly say i made it years ago and its still going strong. I want to make an exact copy of the one i currently have, after watching this video I'm now wondering if kangaroo would be good for mine too, a little reminder of home :) I don't know where to start. Also, if at a last resort i had to ask someone else to make an exact copy of mine for me, who would I ask? I know a cobbler that works with leather shoes in the UK, i knew a couple of outfitters in Australia when i was there but that's it really in the leather crafting world. is there an equivalent of a tailor but specializing in leather items?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance :)
Don, always enjoy watching your work. I love to Buck Stitch. One thing i keep waiting for you to say about the BS on this Video is, if you do an even amount of slits or punches, you always come on correct on where the last piece of lace goes. I always count, before i put the the last couple slits in or the counting gives you and idea, of where your gonna end, and one can prepair for the last punch. Some folks don't know, that you need an even number for the lace to end correctly.
Never knew one can make such patterns on leather. I have seen talented people doing art work on wood, but it's my first time watching a master doing art work on leather.
Whenever I have used the fiebings antique paste using this same process, oil, tan kote, antique, tan kote, the antique ends up flaking out of the cuts and impressions. What am I doing wrong?
As a woman I would snatch up that buck stitched turquoise detailed wallet !! Beautiful work and thank you for all the teaching you do !!
I bought this pattern pack and spent an afternoon trying to put it together. None of the internals were the same size and the body stretched to where it would not stitch up right and I had to scrap the project. Other than that awesome idea….
Superb your a master of tooling leather I've learnt a lot thank you
Yeah, another Don's fine work. I'm still getting the tools needed for this kind of projects. Big fan!...
Greetings, my friend, please send me any of these drawings that you do not know about. I am a beginner and I need someone to stand next to me to earn a daily livelihood. Thank you my friend if you replied to me greetings for your excellence in your work.
How do you stop rub off. What is the best method that you have figured out that works for you. My biggest problem with a bi fold is dye rub off
Superb your a master of the art of tooling leather I've learnt a lot thank you
Great wallet, I made one for myself with Viking tooling, worked a treat, cheers!
What weight leather to use for the tooling portion and for the interior for the wallet. Thanks.
I just started on the leatherworks. I hope one day mine look just as good as yours.
Can you possibly make a video on the uses and best projects for different thicknesses of leather and types.
I have found that when I use tape to assemble the wallet the cards seem to be sticky in and out of the card pockets. I would like to find some thinner tape for the pockets.
Thank you for the great video! Btw, what model Singer is that?
Incredible! What ounce leather is used for tooling?
How do i contact you to get your patterns? Jim in scw az. Thank you.
I see the rumors true,cowboys started wearing tennis shoes so ppl wont think they're truckers,lol,its awesome to see your work
Other than that confusion for me great video Thank you
Very nice 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟, Where do you sell your artwork?
Hello, Don what size thread ? It looks like hand thread?
Always enjoy your videos tank you for sharing.
Hola maestro, felicitaciones.!!!
Una pregunta con que proteje el diseño antes del betun y despues del betun .
Felicitaciones Hugo.- Argentina
Don,what size edger are you using to do the final edging on the wallet?