This was an early bag that I did. Please ignore the sewing… i was learning some new things about my machine. What I’m wondering is… Is there a way to finish the inside diameter of this handle? Ordinarily I would burnish something like this, but the cloth lining sits in between the two layers of leather and it’s fighting me on burnishing anything… I’m thinking about doing a binding, but I’m not sure if that will look worse. Any thoughts? The inside lining is canvas.

This my first project with leather, I’ve been trying to stitch this but this keeps happening and the needles keeps getting stuck in between and I have to use pliers to pull it ( one of my needles broke because of this ) also in the beginning when I did a backstitch to secure it I made sure both sides were the same length but when I pulled them to make the stitch, the left thread became shorter than the right

I only managed to do a couple of stitches before the needle broke.

How can I undo this knot in the first pic? Should I just cut it or?

Any tips would be helpful

Thank you

Looking for some gold plated buckles for straps on my engineer boots but am having a hard time finding somewhere that stocks higher quality ones. The picture attached is what I’m using as reference. Any help is appreciated thank you

Not really sure what I’m doing. I just started, but I bought half of a freaking cowhide and I’m gonna start practicing like a motherfucker.

Normally a black leather kind of guy, but bought some olmo Pueblo and decided to put it to use. I’ll be making a black one so I’ll most likely give this to someone I know. BTW, didn’t think there’d be much of a difference between 4mm and 5mm until I started stitching. Ooof.

Is there anyway to possibly darken this pouch to get close to matching the belt?