Madog's leather tutorial Cutting the leather

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Cutting the leather, this is the 3rd part of the [[Madog's Leather tutorial]]. And covers the tracing of patterns, following of patern instructions, and the cutting of the actual leather.  
 
Cutting the leather, this is the 3rd part of the [[Madog's Leather tutorial]]. And covers the tracing of patterns, following of patern instructions, and the cutting of the actual leather.  
  

Revision as of 15:49, 25 September 2006


Cutting the leather, this is the 3rd part of the Madog's Leather tutorial. And covers the tracing of patterns, following of patern instructions, and the cutting of the actual leather.

Contents

Tools needed

  • Pen
  • Leather
  • Patterns
  • Mr. Friskar
  • Husky Knife

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  • Your going to need some leather. Here is the heaviest leather you can purchase from Tandy in a hide format, it's amazingly crazy stuff, in the thicker area's it measures 3/8 of an inch thick. And it virtualy impossible to work with, gosh I love this stuff. It has no problem passing as armor at SCA events and should never fail as leather armor in Belegarth. It cost about 120$ for a full hide from a Tandy Leather Store, if you pay attention you can get it for 70$ if your a dealer and catch it on sale. Along with a ball point pen, this is the only new stuff your going to need in this part of the project, everything else you should already have.

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  • Your patterns from the previouse step your going to need of course.

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  • Mr. Friskar, now hold up a second... your going to use a pair of scissors on leather? YES. But 2 things to remember... Never put excessive force on Mr. Friskar.. if you do he breaks. If the leather is too thick (which is very often the case with this super hide we got) don't force or taunt Mr. Friskar... he will break.... When Mr Friskar breaks it often hurts you in the process. I'll repeat; DON'T TAUNT MR. FRISKAR.

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  • This is going to be your main cutting tool in this part of the project. I recomend having some extra blades on hand, I went through 2 sides of a blade in the cutting of this hide. I also have a knife sharpener that I used on the blade when it started to get really dull.

Lay out the Patterns

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  • Your always going to do this first. It is just the way things are. you want to find out where you can save the most leather in the project. Tragicly this project calls for a lot of waist, a regular suit of Ravager Armor from the Uruk-hai has almost no waist. Which just rocks. Oh well I got into this one expecting things to be expensive. Here is the lay out on this ~3/4 of a hide, I had to pull out another hide to trace 2 more of the back lames / ribs on.

Note on the waist, From what is leftover on this project I will have tons of triangle pieces left over. Some of these pieces will be used to make the rear on the skirt of the suit if they are long enough. The other pieces I will put in my scrap bin, and probably give to some goblins as payment for doing something for me.

Trace out the pieces

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  • Start tracing buddy, It takes up a lot less time then cutting.

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  • See the nice shape.

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  • Don't forget to label each piece so you don't forget what it is!

Planned modify on the fly

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  • Remember those pesky abb/ bulkhead stencils from the stencil section? Well there back and now we are ready to follow the instructions.

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  • First read the back... "1/2 -->" basicly means to expand out 1/2 an inch.

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  • So we are going to trace it leaving enough space for 1/2 on the outer edges.

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  • No simply shift the pattern over 1/2 to the right and trace the right edge a second time.

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  • Repeat for the left side as well.

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  • Walla! you now have it traced with the instructions


Marvel on the traced hide

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  • Here is a finished pic of the hide before I started cutting. See how everything is nice and planned out.


Cutting

  • More to come....
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