Leather Minutes ep15: Leather Essential Tools

Hello everyone! Sawasdee krap from Chiang Mai, Thailand. In this episode I will talk about the basic tools I use. If you ask like 100,000 leather crafters, they say different. Yeah but it can be guideline for you. If you can find in your area have some shop, the design may different but the purpose of it to use is the same. The very first pencil can be used for drawing on the patterns on the leather and so many things. And the tools as user right along with it is the ruler. For me I use metric system. For you guys if you use in the state, you might use an inch, something like that. And the L shape one. This is very important for me. I use in every project to draw the patterns. So it gives you the exact L perpendicular to the straight line. It helps your patterns to be straight unless you use computer. Depends. And next one is the divider, the wing divider. It will give the lines that the edge of the leather, the edge that have to be stitch the seams of it. But then if I show you here, I'm not sure you can see the tips of it or not. I mod it. I make it more sharper. The glue for me I use right now is water-based glue. Also you can use the rubber glue, the adhesive one. Yes. And the glue applicator to apply glue to flatten the surface of the glue. Knife I use is just simply simple cutter one but it is 30 degree. It's sharp and it can tap the blade off for the new one. It's easy to find. Next one, this is the diamond type pricking iron. For me I use one dent, two dents and four dents. I use the mullet and I put a thick leather with tan leather on it too. Flat tip plier. You can take the needles out of the leather, the project and use to tap the blade. Use in many many purposes. The needle I use is John James. Okay. This is very good brand of it and I use the number four. It's small enough to use in most of the project and it's still strong and durable. But if you stitch something large you might need the larger one. Depends. No worry. And the thread I use the linen thread from UFO. It is very good. Linen thread look more natural and have wefts on it. And this is a thick wet tan leather. It's like the cutting board for kitchen but it's for leather. You can punch the pricking iron on it. Do not punch directly on your table. Your table will be like ruined. Lots of asteroid holes onto your table. But this help and also it keep the sharpness of the pricking iron too. This is the sandpaper. I use number one and number five. This is for woodwork. For refine the edge. If you work with wet tan leather and you have to burning the edge too. For burning the edge. Gum chocolate can. Okay. Burnishing gum is needed too. About the tools that it's okay if you don't have but this is help a lot if you work with lots of type of works. This help to measure the thickness of the leather. So you can select the thickness of the leather at the shop at your workshop. And the last thing this is the clamp for hold the leather project for you. So you can apply freehand stitching like this. Thank you for watching this video. It's basic tool, essential tools. I think this video can give you some ideas of how to start leather works. And if you see me at the first time, please consider subscribe, like and share. I will drop a new video every Saturday 9 Thailand time. I'll see you next time. Bye.