If you really want to do nice work, make something for someone else and speed through it at top speed!
That is how this check book cover got a quick, but very effective, double whip stitch edge - no time for double loop lacing.
Digital photography once again conceals the true beauty of the dye job. I used a dauber ful of red dye to apply Saddle Tan Gel Antique and then sprayed it with supersheen.
I just saw the news that Tandy now has a website just for South Africa. Hopefully this will make its products and leather more accessable to South Africans.
Here is a link to the page: TANDY SA
I see the orders will probably be processed from Woodheads in Cape Town. That is where I bought my first 3 ounce belly, the basic tools and made a 2" wide belt for my bell-bottom pants on the mother's dining room table (no marble stone at that stage and no sence about the right weight of leather to use! That was in January 1978. I should probably publish a picture or two of that first belt! I did actually use it too....
Two weeks after I arrived in the USA, I attended the IFOLG show in Ft Worth. My sons were only 4 and 6 years old and asked where I was going. I told them and also metioned that I would meet real Cowboys and Indians. One of the asked me if I would be able to play with them! I had to explain more - these were going to be real people just like us.
At the show I met Rob Barr for the first time and told him the story - he had a very good laugh about it and immediately raked someone closer to take this photo of me holding his pony tail to prove to my sons that I had indeed met a real Indian.
Years later in Topeka at a similar show, my sons were lucky enough to meet Rob and we had a nice long visit.
Rob has since passed into the next life, but remains a source of inspiration in my leatherwork.
