Fun With Leather Off-Cuts - Salt Anyone?

[shep]

I made a salt and pepper pinch-pot with some small scraps of leather. It came out rather nicely and will take pride of place in my cookset! Salt one side, pepper the other.

 

[litefoot]

very nifty.
Litefoot.

 

[BorderReiver]

Clever idea.Nice one.

 

[sallyinwales]

This sort of pot works really well for balms, maybe an insect repellant one on one side and a lip balm on the other, or a splodge of potion for finishing woodwork made out in the wilds or proofing leather. Make sure the 'flavours' are ok together though as in leather they do cross contaminate a bit and you want to clean out and replenish periodically, but very handy for carrying a dab of something useful around and the leather goes lovely after a year or so with an oil/beeswax based balm in it

 

[SOAR]

I really like those looks like you have done a great job there fella, would you be up for making some for sale? I would be interested

Simon.

 

[Pitkin]

They are really cool Shep. Would like to have a go at making some this week. I'm guessing that the salt/pepper holder is about 3/4 inch in diametre and maybe 1 1/2 inches high? Great idea from Sallyinwales too for lip balm 'n' stuff.

 

[shep]

They are really cool Shep. Would like to have a go at making some this week. I'm guessing that the salt/pepper holder is about 3/4 inch in diametre and maybe 1 1/2 inches high? Great idea from Sallyinwales too for lip balm 'n' stuff.

Something like that. I rummaged around for various containers until I found the smallest one that I could pinch into and drew round it!

 

[shep]

This sort of pot works really well for balms, maybe an insect repellant one on one side and a lip balm on the other, or a splodge of potion for finishing woodwork made out in the wilds or proofing leather. Make sure the 'flavours' are ok together though as in leather they do cross contaminate a bit and you want to clean out and replenish periodically, but very handy for carrying a dab of something useful around and the leather goes lovely after a year or so with an oil/beeswax based balm in it

That is a great idea. I use an olive oil/beeswax mix on my leather which I could keep in one of these - don't know why I never thought of it myself!

 

[shep]

I really like those looks like you have done a great job there fella, would you be up for making some for sale? I would be interested

Simon.

I think I will. I've got a few leather items and a knife I've made so I've paid for a maker membership. I will make a few more of these too for anyone else that's interested.

 

[Eric_Methven]

Excellent idea. One added advantage to these is the fact that leather is absorbent so it will extract any moisture in the salt keeping it nice and dry.

Eric

 

[SOAR]

I think I will. I've got a few leather items and a knife I've made so I've paid for a maker membership. I will make a few more of these too for anyone else that's interested.

I would be interested just let me know of a price. I think they are a really good idea, and the different ideas as for what they could be used for would make them usefull.

Simon.