Hi there! Time to do some work again 😉
A friend of mine asked me if I could make a special modified leather cuff for him and of course I was ready for the task. It was going to be a version of my Sun Ray cuff, which has a traditional and simple hand tooled pattern. Here I will go thru some phases of this project with you.
Stage 1
Cut some leather strap from veg tanned top grain leather. In this case a 19 cm long and 30 mm wide piece, from a 2,5 mm thick leather. I used a rounded cutter for the endings and beveled the edges nice and smooth.
Stage 2
Next step is to make holes for the lacing and after that it`s time to dampen the leather and make the patterns. First did the edges with a adjustable creasing tool and after that the actual pattern. In this one I used two different stamping tools.
Stage 3
Allright, now we can burnish the edges with a burnishing tool using water and some soap for the first round and after that using bees wax. When the edges are done, it`s time to dye the leather, in this case with tan and black dyes.
Stage 4
After the dye has dried about ten minutes it`s time to do the finishing touches:
- burn my logo on the backside
- rub it over with some leather grease
- lace it up
And there it is, a Sun Ray leather cuff by Moikuna 🙂
Greetings
Moikuna~Pasi