Thick leather

[mrcharly]

Suitable for knife sheaths, sheaths for axes etc.

Can't seem to find a list of suppliers in the sticky links.

 

[Mesquite]

Try Le Prevo or Tandy

 

[mountainm]

Claytons tannery in Chesterfield.

 

[Toadflax]

Also The Identity Store will sell smaller pieces.

Bowstock do some.

There's also a few eBay suppliers selling smaller pieces.

Abbey Saddlery (for Sedgewicks) or Baker's of Colyton if you want the really classy stuff.


Geoff

 

[mrcharly]

Tandy look useful - but I've realised I don't really have any idea of how to specify the leather I'd need for making, say, an axe mask.

 

[Dreadhead]

Tandy are useful, but more expensive than identity store or leprevo. Tandy do have a help section think its called 'buying leather' for ounce to mm ratios. for axe masks and the like you probably want around 3-4mm

 

[Angst]

dude....get 3-4m full grain veg tan shoulder from le prevo

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[Dreadhead]

dude....get 3-4m full grain veg tan shoulder from le prevo

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i just bought some of this from their regular line. first time i have not bought leather in a sale haha. tis beautiful stuff!

 

[mrcharly]

Le prevo's website was down earlier. hmm - prices are good but I don't need 20sq ft!

Ebay I guess

 

[decorum]

Tandy do have a help section think its called 'buying leather' for ounce to mm ratios.

I posted this up a while back and as it might help here I'll bung it in ...

Hopefully, at some point, this will help someone.

Leather tends to be listed in one of two ways - in ounces or more recently', in millimeters.

The basis of a leather's thickness/weight is: 1oz is equal to 1/64" is equal to 0.39mm. For each ounce, leather thickens by this basic amount ~ so a 9oz leather will be 9/64"/3.57mm.

Most veg-tan leather will be quoted as being between weights ~ i.e 8 to 10oz / 3.2 to 4mm*. This slight variation in the thickness of a piece of leather is entirely normal.

* It stays in line with the basic measure as listed above - but there will always be the need for rounding of numbers.

' Well ... You get the jist .

It might seem to be daft to have gone to the inch ~ but I've seen elephant leather :yikes:

 

[EssexMonk]

Go to your local "Good Will" shop and look for leather purses, boots with high tops etc I have also made bags and pouches from leather coats.

 

[mrcharly]

That's very handy, decorum. I now know I'm after 3.5-4mm (or '9 ounce) leather. Can get bits on ebay now I know what I'm after.

If there are a couple of people on here who'd have a use for 2-3sqr ft of leather I'd consider ordering from Le Prevo and splitting it up.