Best leather thickness for leather wallets? How to choose the best leather for making wallets

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Best leather thickness for leather wallets? How to choose the best leather for making wallets

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Reedy River Goods

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@anmariegibbs5713 6 ай бұрын

The “0.4mm per ounce” is super helpful as leather is sold by the mm thickness here in the UK! Thankyou

@reedyrivergoods 6 ай бұрын

Took me forever to figure it out.. basically too lazy to go find the answer and struggled to find the right thickness for a few months!! Helped me a ton

@reedyrivergoods 7 ай бұрын

finally leather thickness explained!

@DrewMeyerhoe 7 ай бұрын

Most of my billfolds with a cash sleeve are 8 layers thick, so i prefer about .5-.6mm per layer. That's with everything lined. They hold up great. Keep stitching away from edges, double stitch over pocket edges. With fewer layers and fewer pockets, not lined, etc. I will go up to 1.2mm. With soft leather, prepunch before fully assembling.

@reedyrivergoods 7 ай бұрын

great point on the softer layers. Certainly some live and learn aspects to my previous failures

@tracytaylor6083 7 ай бұрын

I've watched a ton of video's on leather crafting, and this is the perfect video explaining wallet leather thickness! Thank you!

@reedyrivergoods 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. This one kept coming up and had to say a few words on the matter. What other areas of interest for topics do you have ?

@CashReed-yh9wl 4 ай бұрын

Right there with you!

@polychronisrempoulakis3588 7 ай бұрын

Very good advice! now I'm going to measure the thickness of my pieces before I start the next project!

@reedyrivergoods 7 ай бұрын

I appreciate it! I was bleeding trying to get through some of my first projects because the leather was so thick

@TheTwoAlpacas 6 ай бұрын

Great video and explanation about tailoring the ounces to the project. I've been working leather for several years but just started with wallets and bags recently. You learn quickly what works and what doesn't

@reedyrivergoods 6 ай бұрын

Thank you much! I want to carve away more time for bags and have some video tutorials for duffle bag and bookbag on the way. I started out and still usually error on the side of too thick for some projects. Still fine tuning and learning from past mistakes!. Costly at times but lessons learned regardless!

@CoreyReed-od6dv 6 ай бұрын

Will have to add same topic for bags and shoes to the videos

@TheTwoAlpacas 6 ай бұрын

@@reedyrivergoods me too. I mainly do axe work and the sheaths are usually pretty hefty. However, I've been experimenting with thinner covers for the axes these days and I'm kind of digging them. FYI you have a new subscriber. Cheers

@williamcherney7747 7 ай бұрын

Very informative! Thank you!

@reedyrivergoods 7 ай бұрын

Thank you..Appreciate you watching.

@V3leathercraft 7 ай бұрын

I use buff 3-4oz outside and 2-2.5 oz goat for pockets and slots inside. I don't skive the edges, b'se it wont be looking good while folded

@reedyrivergoods 7 ай бұрын

I bet those goat pockets are silky! Like that for a formula

@tommygamba170 7 ай бұрын

Great video. I would add a few things

@reedyrivergoods 7 ай бұрын

I appreciate it!

@annereed9751 7 ай бұрын

Good info!

@reedyrivergoods 7 ай бұрын

Thanks, hope it helps

@CoreyReed-od6dv 7 ай бұрын

Always a mystery

@VL286 5 ай бұрын

😂"absolute Big Mac" 👍

@reedyrivergoods 5 ай бұрын

Haha, just felt right!?!

@VL286 5 ай бұрын

@@reedyrivergoods it feels good to know theres ppl out there with my kinda humor, i say stuff like that all the time. I subbed to your etsy shop. Look forward to make some purchases, im one of those that appreciates a FAT Mac of leather thickness in belts and wallets.

@CashReed-yh9wl 4 ай бұрын

Haha😂😂😂

@Js_Son83 5 ай бұрын

Hi. My father does upholstery, fixing, recovering sofas and chairs. He got a lot of leather at his shop but the leathers he has are really soft. Can I use soft leathers for making wallets and other leather goods?

@reedyrivergoods 5 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for reaching out. Upholstery leather would be very tough to work with for a wallet. You could certainly do it but it wouldn’t be a great material to use because it’s generally soft, flimsy and stretchy to some degree. There is some reinforcement backing you could use or liner to help give it some structure but otherwise it would be very flimsy.

@CashReed-yh9wl 4 ай бұрын

I’ve bought cheap upholstery before thinking it would be smooth and great… not great for wallets…

@tommygamba170 7 ай бұрын

I like to convert to grams to be specific. Per mm