Acadia Leather

[captaininfosec]

Last night a lot of folks asked about the leather I used for my apron. Here's the link to Acadia. The leather I bought is Crazyhorse, and it has a 3 for 2 deal going on.

I currently have a 10% off coupon good for my next purchase. If there's enough interest, I could put together a group order to share the savings.

(And maybe Phil will post his stylish picture with the apron on for reference...)

[BeeAmaker]

Where do you buy all your tooling?

[captaininfosec]

So far, mostly Amazon. Some of the inexpensive combo packs have enough tools to be worth it even with the extras I'm unlikely to use. At my level of skill, the "nice" stuff hasn't been necessary yet.

My favorite purchases so far are the inexpensive diamond chisels from Amazon (smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B014549SNG) and the Tandy leader strap cutter (smile.amazon.com/Tandy-Leather-Craftool-Cutter-3080-00/dp/B0036UU0AG).

I just ordered a set of embossing and carving tools, so I should get to try that next.

[ZionPhil]

[captaininfosec]

My 2.0 style apron - longer for metalworking, with D-rings for leg straps to keep it from catching on things (I'm waiting on snaps and a snap tool to show up to finish those, I want them to come off easily if they get caught on something).

This version is dyed using Fieblings brown leather dye, and uses a Y harness for support. The lower part of the Y is a wet-formed belt slider, and has a height adjustment buckle in the middle of my lower back. The waist belt is also size adjustable, and like my first version, continues around part way to the front of the apron to make opening and closing the trigger snap easier.

This will get a chest pocket too, but I'm waiting on some tooling gear so I can try my hand at tooling the pocket before it gets riveted,glued, and stitched on.

[ZionPhil]

Nice!