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1. Welcome to the class: Hello everyone and
welcome to this class. Will you learn how
to make a simple, yet beautiful handmade her
gums live, made from leather. In this class, I'll show you how to prepare your template. Prefer the leather stitched leather and finish the edges for the project for this
lesson will be to make your own spirit gum do There's leave using the
template provided. You can use any type
of leather your wish. So without any further
ado, let's get started.
2. Preparing the template: Let's begin our project. Download and print
a template for this class that is in
the project section. Then called the template
from the rest of the paper, leaving a small x's are
on the edge of the sign. Because bond paper is very
light and bends peacefully, we need to give it some
stiffness to work properly. Glutes amplitude a
piece of cardboard or cable paper like the one
I'm using in the video. You can use any type
of glue you wish. In this case, I'll be using the same blue I use
for the leather. I found this type of blues
were great for templates and Kerberos since they don't
come easily after many uses. When the pieces are
called the excess of paper that was left are under
the sign of the template. You want this to be as neat, straight and precise
as possible. So because of this,
I'll be using a cotton ruler and
my except to life. You can go ahead and
use them as well, or if you wish,
use your scissors. I do recommend however, you try doing this
with a ruler and nice. Templates needs to be very well God and precisely measures, which is why this technique
has its advantages. You can coat around
the edges with your scissors once you're
done with the straight lines, and when you're ready,
we can now proceed to huddle our leather
in the next lesson.
3. Preparing the leather sides: Now that we've got our
template ready to use, we need to choose the type of leather we want for our leaf. In previous projects, I've
used the natural colors show Cordova and had
this piece left. I'll be using it to match
the other products and take advantage of the
entire level piece. In fact, I'll be using it once more for another
project later on. But for now I'll stick
with what I've got here. Laser template or the
leather and we do a scratch all MOG the
outline on the template. You can also go days were a
little band. If you have one. Mark two identical
bonds for this project. We can now start coding
our leather pieces when it cutting ruler
and X-Acto knife. Guide yourself with your
scratch out to have a very straight line through the outline I you
see in the video. And then firm
declares that cutting ruler over the
letter and cut it. Don't press hard with acceptor knife is
always better to pass a knife several times
if necessary to get it down to force it. If you force it, it can bend the leather and if
it's too soft or the knife could go
somewhere else and can cause damage to the
leather or yourself. Always remember to how a sharp
blade window doing this. For the round edges. Again, dreaming out small
pieces and angle until the edge is completely rounded
as you've seen the video. And do these for all the
edges of the template. So when you have
your pieces cut out, you'll need to start considering the thickness of your product. If you align your leather, you'll be adding considerable
thickness to the project, as you can compare here
with a DJ and I've shown. So for this project I'll do is completely online than natural. This way I can also have a natural edge
finish on, later on. What comes up next is to push the solution holes so
indicative or to punish them, you can use a winged divider, which is like a
compass tools that you can open or close to
indicate other sorry, distance between the
H and the stitching. Or you can use an
eraser as well. The edge crease or however
has a fixed distance. You can compare how
false tools mark the leather and decide on
how you want to work better. Because the leather I'm
using is light and shows any scratch with details
present clearly. I'll go with the wind divider. I found this tool is
way more discreet from the user and it helps
you make a much fun work. So 15 centimeters and start your markings one
centimeter from the top edge of this leaf Plaza divider along the entire edge until
you reach the other side of the b's are the same distance
from where you started. To make the stitching holes. Use your diamond chisels, will be using a 26 bronchi
muscles for this project. Plays your leather over
our softmax or poly block. I had an old man I
didn't use anymore and found that it worked very
well with the sheath cells. They're not designed
for that purpose, so, so they will wear
faster than a blog bar. I want you to have a mind that sometimes you can replace
it too far another, as long as they're safe to use. The math, for instance, is soft and doesn't
harm your chisel tips. So for this steps,
you'll also be using a polyhedron laser chisel
where you start on marking the leather with you
when divider with your polio hammer
bunch the liver during this step is not necessary
to how the holes wide open and bunch since we
will be doing this again, when we join both pieces, move along the entire piece
using your six bronchi. So on straight lines and you do bronchi muscles on curved lines. When you're finished,
then the next step is to polish the scenes, the stage or farther handled. Also have a logo stamp. This might be a good time to
put into for moving forward. The upper edge of both
pieces with some water using your fingers against the water
doesn't go away the sides. So the businesses were on 30 seconds and then
it would your water, nice furniture polish
those with edges, Use the edge of the burnisher. Those feeds the
leather thickness. And after rubbing
it for a while, you'll notice the edge
feels very smooth and shiny is nicely
convert to a raw edge. When you're done doing this, apply a small amount
of Persian Gulf over the edge with
your finger and with a small piece of canvas until you hear up
correcting solid field. Check the edge. And when you are happy with how it
shines and finished, do the same for the over bar
to the second piece as well. It's now time to join
both pieces together to apply some blue near the
edge of the front b's M, guide yourself with the
holes, bunches biology, so be careful don't
blood towards the outer side of the holes and not in the inside of the piece. So we repeat the process
with a Saigon and other bees and then carefully join
both pieces together. Make sure you
they'll disorderly. It's a good time. We need both pieces
to be as precisely join us. For the next step. We'll give away
pressing your fingers. There was another
until both sides are we'll fix together. You have another HMO,
you can use it as well. Another hammers usually have
a phase and it looks white, so when you hammer the letter, it doesn't get marked. The last step is to
punch the holes again, we did it by 12
soil and goals for both pieces to this
leaf for stitching. And you can see why they decided to use the math
for this job since my body block has been
there and I wanted to punch the holes,
my flux surface. Okay. When you're done doing so, check that all the holes
often than bunch through and the sleeve is not ready to be stitched. In the next lesson.
4. Stitching the leather: To begin stitching together, the first thing to do is to
decide on the threat to US. You can see in the video I have two different types of threats. On the left side are lion, threats of different colors. And on the right are
black polyester thread. Which of these will
have a huge impact on how your mother or we'll
look at the end and you might find it
useful to first make a small test by using
a small piece of thread and putting it
over your project to see it without direct
convinces you or not. In this case, I'll go with
the brown thread since even though I like how it
looks with a blue thread, I think the brown, we'll
give it a more elegant look, and we are other colors. This leave my just look too
childish or very sporty, which is not something I would
like to use in this piece. When you've decided
on the thread, prepare your stitching needles. You'll need to for each stage
you wish to do every time. For this project, I'm using
to John James needles size double 02 cells
touching meals. To begin with, you
must first know how much ready for this
project and so on. All these measure the total
length of where you are going to stitch and multiply
that number by four. This will be the
length of the thread you'll need for the project. However, I always like
to add 30 centimeters to this number to comfortably
handle both deals. We're working with them. Measure, fret and cut it. Then if you're
using land thread, you'll notice that it is
really loosen kind of threat. You want to give more
stiffness to it. To do so, you'll need to watch your thread with some beeswax. Pleasure thread 2 times
over the walks and you'll see how it becomes
wasted for them before. I always like to
add more walks in the beginning and the end
of the thread I'm using. Now we need to fix the
needles to the trip. First phlegm, one of the
edges of the thread. You can use any tool to do this, even your nails, as you can see, the important thing
is that it is well flattened so you
can insert the tip, the whole of the needle. Once this is done, POSIX
threads for the whole the needle and stitch the thread with a pointed
tip of the needle. You might want to flatten the point where
you'll be doing this. When you've done this, start
pulling the thread from the needle until you have a
small amount of tourist left. And then pull the
excess of thread backwards to look the thread
would itself and the needle. Now I understand this might
sound very confusing. First, which is why I suggest you look
carefully at the video, since this step
might be a little tricky if it's your
first time doing it, a repeated process several
times so you can see it. When you've done doing this
on both side of the thread, we can start stitching
the leather sleeve will start not from the first hole was made with from
the second one. Then we'll stitch one hold back and then forwards the
rest of the piece. This will give this leaf much
more strength in that barn. Where is where most of the stress will be
when bowling and stretching the
leather to insert and take out the hair
comb eventually. Instead of the first Niels for the second hole and
pull both needles together to make sure you have the same length of
thread on both sides. Then grab the first needle him pass it through the first hole, leaving the metal inserted in the liver with the needle on
the other side of the hand. Pull the first needle and once it passes
through the leather, let it go, but makes sure to have the second
needle stiller hand. Now pass this needle through
the same hole and pull both ends to tighten the
threat in this first stitch. With this first stage, we have secured the threat from moving to a one hole to the other
and alter its length. Now we can start moving forward doing exactly the same process. We look at the video carefully. It will be your best guide if
you get stuck in this step. Once you've done this,
repeat this step through the oldest stitching
halls of this leaf. When you're almost done
stitch on the sleeve, you might feel through
our loosen again. This is because most of
the wax has been lost from the thread during the tightening
of the stitching holds. This is actually something
good since it's trapped walks guarantees a thread
is well fixed to this leaf. If you feel your
thread very loose, you can always stop and add more walks through it as you
can see in the video, and then continue all
the way to the end. Once you've reached the end, you'll want to make sure
this stage is very strong. So I suggest you go one stage. And then once you've
done this Basel thread that is in front of
this leaf, to the back. You'll see how this
leaf looks pretty neat. And now it's time to go up
the excess of thread left. To do so, you can use any
type of scissors you want. Just make sure to
pull the thread, tighten the last
stretch before cutting. And when doing so,
so I had to leave as little thread as possible so the excess won't be noticeable, as you can see in the video.
5. Finishing the edges: Now that we have finished
each inner sleeve, the final step is to sun and
polish all the edges so it has a nice soft
finish. To begin with. You can use a 220 or 267
grid paper and carefully work your way in Coda, small piece of sandpaper, as you see in the
video folder in half and start sanding the edge. Try to work in small
sections and then cover more area as you
begin working on it. If you wish, you can also
use a dremel to do this. And that's really this tool. Make the work faster but just be careful to hold
your peace firmly. Protect your eyes and nose from all the leather fibers
that will go off to sleep. And also Troy to Sunday edge without applying
too much pressure, only the necessary to leave the edge as smooth as possible. If you were with your dremel, you might find some excess
of leather at the edges. Trim those excess fibres with the help of
an edge February. This tool will help
you smooth the edge and set it ready
for polishing it. Dm, D edges with some
water just enough to cover the entire edge and
be careful not to drop any water to
the main surfaces. Would you or wouldn't
match burnisher? Burnish the edges just enough until you
feel the edge smoke. Then you some burnishing gum and a piece of small
canvas to burnish them in the same way
as you previously did with the upper parts
of the linear pieces. As an extra step to make
sure your edges are, were burnished and as
smooth as possible. You can once again use your wooden better shirt
to republish them. At this point is live, is completely
polished and should feel extremely smooth and shiny. When you've finished doing this, one lump step is to
break the leather just a bit to allow the hair
comb to fit comfortably. To do this, use a
plastic bone folder and pass it several times. This step also helps
them to get rid of any excess of glue that might
be left inside is leaf. We have now finished our
sleep and can proceed to the next and last
lesson of this class.
6. Final project: We have reached the last lesson of our class where it's now your turn to create your
own hair comes leaf. Remember you can give this
leaf and you look you wish by combining different
colors and threats, even textures and
the leather pieces. If you wish to leave
to look more formal, try making it and dark
colors such as black, burgundy or dark brown leather. If you want something more
casual and sport looking, you can go for a light tone brown leather like
the one I used. You can download the
template of this leaf in the project section
and once you've finished, don't forget to upload it so other students can
see it as well. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you
in the next class.
David Gonzalez, Industrial Designer
