Make Your Own Handmade Leather Valet Tray!

1. Welcome to the class: Good day and welcome everyone to this glass. Will you learn how to make a very simple and elegant looking leather bottle trait? This project is extremely simple to do and he's barefoot for practicing with another if you want to improve your skills or as a nice gift for someone special. In this glass, I'll show you how to prepare the leather stitching and finish the inches. The project for this lesson will be to make your own volunteering. You can use any type of weather you wish. So without any further ado, let's get started. 2. Preparing the leather: Let's begin to create or by the tray. For this project, I'll use this thick brown leather that is actually a leftover from a previous project. When working with leather, I suggest you always keep good pieces of leftovers and you can always do many extra projects with them. The first thing we need to do is to make sure the area we're going to need is free from scratches or cuts that might affect the jury. In this case, this booth is perfect for the job. I'll be cutting a square section of the letter and tried to use as much as possible, since this is a relatively small leftover piece. Because it's a simple square. There's no need to use any template whatsoever. If you're also working with a leftover, guide yourself with the size of the b's you're working. And from a section that you could easily identify as straight as possible to draw the first straight lines. If there's leather that Hindus, you cut it out to have the area more manageable. With your ruler in Scratch all Marcus straight line over the leather as long as possible. You can also use a leather pants are coded directly if you prefer. Use your square to Margaret perpendicular line to the first line you drew at the very edge of the line. You'll do exactly the same for the third line. When you're making the lines, Use your words and make sure that the lengths are the same for everyone. And for the last line, you can make some marks where the line will start and finish and then join them with the ruler. As you've seen the video. Remember to have good lighting when making this box and getting the letter. And when you are happy with your piece, you can proceed to cut it, which we'll see in the next lesson. 3. Cutting and glueing the leather: To begin coding or literary, the first thing is to make sure you working comfortably with another over your working table. So as you can see, I'm cutting out some x's that might get in the way when cutting this three lines of the edges. When you're ready to quit your piece, makes sure that letter is as flat as possible over the table and you're cutting ruler and X-Acto knife carefully start cutting it. Because this leather is considerably thick, it's more convenient to make small guts and pleasant. I've several times to make sure that code is clean and that God will come out quite irregular. Also, make sure you're working with a sharp knife. I'll be putting some excess of leather on the other side of another piece before making the final God for that edge as well. All the leather you've got out is still good and useful material. If you think you can make some extra projects out of them, keep them safe, and you can come back anytime. Sometimes it's hard to get around the same leather you've worked before. This is because it is no longer in production or the sold out. So always make sure you can take as much advantage as possible of your material before away. When you're done cutting the excess of leather, make the final coats little piece square as possible. Now for the Detroit to have its characteristic form, the edges must be joined. As you can see, if we leave this as it is and joined them, they will end up looking quite sharp. To avoid is we'll have to cut some x's on the edges, a 45 degree angle from every edge. A good rule of thumb is to mark one inch from each of the edge to both sides and then join both marks, get a straight line and call it as you see in the video. In the end, this is actually a matter of preferences for everyone. So if you prefer the edges to be more sharp, then there's no need to go this xs for this does however, I'll cut them out. When you're finished. The next step is to live as rate. In this case, I'll be using some blood pig skin. Fixed King is a very strong leather used mainly for lining. And as you can see, I also use some leftovers from previous projects. I was actually very lucky to find this piece that fits perfectly to the square root that apart. Play this quarter leather or the pig skin and linear pattern, draw an outline of the square. And this doesn't have to be perfect, is actually just to got the excess and make the letter more manageable. When you're done, plays a square root over the big screen once again, but this time, make sure both leaders are facing the inner sides between them because this is how they'll be glued. With your other Ben, drawn a line of the square over the big skin and this time and tried to be as precise as possible. This line will be your guide when doing both pieces together. When you're done, it's time to do both parts together. Plays blue bold surfaces of the leather, making sure the governor would move. Some glues only needs to be used in fees. Others need to be saved for a few minutes to join them to better each glue has its own specific instructions. So make sure to always check them before using it. Sometimes the glue gets quite sticky and fake. One is relatively old. Make sure your glue is when you're not using it. You can see in the video it was hard to manage it in that state, but using a guard or plastic loop lawyer help you do the job better. When both pieces have enough glue, carefully join them together and start applying some pressure to make sure the glue on both sides fixed as well. You can leave your P is with some pressure on top like a book or a piece of wood and come back after 20 or 30 minutes to continue. The last step is to go up the excess of lining left on this big scheme. Using your sisters carefully God this excess and guide yourself with a squared b's. You might see some axis of the edges. If this happens rides, it's a good idea. Your fingers are witnessed some level when you're happy with the results and we can proceed to the edges and leave that B is ready for afterwards. 4. Painting and finishing the edges: It's time to paint the edges of our project. To do this, you will only need some black or brown and sprains or your preference and an edge paint applicator. I like using feelings and sprained for these type of projects because it dries quickly. The edge, a nice finish one, polish them varnished, which we'll do later on. You can use any paint obligated to do this. My case, I'm actually going to use a leather styling to which a modally use for painting small sections on my projects. Shake. Well before using it, applies small amounts of paint over the edges, making sure they don't drip over them. Also dry slab relatively quick, so let's split it to war with small sections rather than long strips like a heat sink. When you're done painting the edges leave the letter B's for the last for about 20 minutes. This will allow the painters, right? Well, before continuing, when the paint is, we'll draw it. We need to seal it. This would allow the edge to feel smooth and shiny. To begin with, use a wooden edge burnishing for this job. I have a very simple black wooden burnisher. And what you need to do is check which slot fits better to the edge and then make fresh and we did burnisher until you feel the edge smooth it. When the paint dries, it leaves the leather would have very rough feel. This burnishing process will have delayed. She feels smoother once again. Okay. Lastly, use some burnishing gum and a small piece of canvas to polish the edges. I like using some local knowledge, varnishing God places well a lot of gum or the edge with the Canvas B's apply friction until you can feel up correcting South is will tell you the pieces ready and well sealed. When you're finished that we can continue with. The next and final step of the project is, is touching the edges. 5. Stitching the leather: Before stitching our project, it's helpful to visualize the steps of the project in two parts. The first one has to do with the stitching along the four sides of the square. And the second one will be stitching the edge of the tree. As you can see, bending DH is considerably affect the size, shape, and space for stitching. This is important to have in mind since we don't want our stitches to have some problem during the process or interfere with another stitch along the way and make the tree look silly. To do this, we need to know exactly where to begin and finish the stitches or the size first. To know the distance between the size and the stitches, I'll use some edge bubbler the marks and offset of four millimeters through any other bees when passing it. You can also use your ruler if you prefer. Or the same time. Mark a line four millimeters from one edge of the trait inwards. While we want, is to make the intersection between both lines we've just made. The second line will also tell us where to start stitching both sides of the trait in every edge. To make the stitching poles use any diamonds, CISO, or a whole bunch of your preference. For this lesson, I'll be using this Japanese I want you so and will later use as molar to prom CISO for the edges. You will also need a polymath and you're probably block to protect your table from the chisels. Make sure the four millimeter lines you Mark previously on the leather are well visible since you need to find exactly where these lines intersect. Then with your shuffle, mark the point of intersection and the following points with a whole will go. You can do this by just applying pressure over the leather with a points of your she's like We want to start the second mark left with the CISO, not the first one, since this one will be done afterwards when you stitch the edges. Pleasure leather over your polyglot in which each chisel and polymath punch the leather through the entire syllabus rate. If the letter is too dark to see any hole, you can verify first by perforating it well before moving forward, the thicker the leather, the harder it feels to punch it through. When you get to the end of the side, finish in one space before the intersection of the lines from the side and the edge, as you've previously did. When you're finished, it's time to prepare our thread to begins to change the first side to the other. You'll need a pair of stitching needles and your preferred type of thread. For this project, I'll be using some polyester 0.8 Read Set 25 threat, also known as direct threat. The needles are a pair of Su Jue John James hand stitching needles. To be part of the thread, you'll first need to pause one tape of the thread through the hole while the first needle. Then pull the tape until it's long enough to manage it with your fingers and with the point of the needle, thread, as you can see in the video, pull the thread black boys until it's glows through the hole and then pull the experts it backwards. This will fix as red with itself and we allowed it to the stage where other reason that needle coming loose do the same for the other side of the thread as well. Now, when do you throw these ready philosophers needle through the first hole you've made on the side of this ray. And we the needle on the other side. Boom, both needles together to make sure they measure the same on both sides of the thread to be as even as possible. Bosnia, from the right side to the next hole that's right. And with the needle still inside the leather, grab the second needle. And with the help of your fingers and the second needle, pull the first nail to the other side. Then with your right hand, pull the thread slightly to the back end. Insert the second needle through the same hole where the first needle passed. We'll both needles until the stitches will fixed and you've created the first stage of your project. Continue moving forward through the entire side until you reach the last hole. When you insert the second needle through the whole, remember to pass it forward. The threat in the directions of your stitch. This will ensure your stage to look clean and even stitching for the first time might be quite challenging, but don't worry, with practice, you'll be able to stitch very easily and in no time. When you reach the end of your edge and finish the chance for the last hole, you'll need to go back one competence stage backwards, n half stage to ensure the thread finishes on the backside of the trait. With both fluorescent the same side, you can now cut them. And when I tried to burnish that deep of both threads, as you can see, the tips have been burned and actually melted a bit. This is thanks to the wax that this specific thread has. All the threads like linen thread did not have that much of wax on them. Which is why it's better for those threads to just be caught out when they're finished. Do the same for the rest of the sides of the trade. When you're finished touching the sides, we now need to stitch the edges together. To do this, you'll need to use a two-pronged diamond chisel, your outlook and polymath that as well. First, bendy edge the word itself to see how many holes you'll need to fix. Then place your edge as flat as possible and identify the intersection points that were formed from the outline of four millimeters you've previously done. Remember we move one space for switching the sides. Now we need to mark that first hole within, previously marked as our first hole for stitching the edge. If you've got your tray with a chamfer of one inch from the edge, you'll only need three holes, as you can see in the video, just ditch the edges. Mark and punch the three holes as well on the other side of the edge. When you're done, both sides of the ash of the perfectly aligned for stitching thread in the same way as the way the sides. This time you only need 30 centimeters length of thread, bendy edge and make sure that three hole from each side much perfectly the tree holes from the other side. Then pass the first needle through the first hole that is closest to the opening side of the tree. Well, we have to do now is to cross stage the first stage we do. So the edge is well tightened together as the first needle through the first hole from the other side of the edge and do the same with the second one, as you can see in the video. The rest of the stitches are going to be accepted the same absolute we previously did with the decides, making sure to go back 1.5 stitch backwards. One finished. Great. Now that we've finished the first edge weight and continue edges, I suggest you begin with a one that is on the opposite side of the ones we just did. So the trach and bend more easily if you need to. When you're finished doing this, there's still one more step to your project, which we'll see in the next lesson. 6. Finishing the tray and final project: Awesome. Now this point in the my site, we're almost done with the project. However, there is still a slight extra step you might want to do before finishing it. And that is to polish the entire letter to give it more shine and presence. You can see the black pig skin looks actually a bit though. So to improve this, I'll be using another brush and some black green for another polish up some cream with a hair brush. And again, barrage India entire leather. We don't want this to look excessively polar, so just enough to make it look nicer. You can do the same with the Buchla that if you wish or leave it as it is, polish the Gremio blow with the same brush and after a few parcels that way we'll be ready to use. Because the other is quite flexible. You can easily band the tray in wars embolism to your product with more 0s. Also when using very soft and flexible others, you can bend your Dre and take it elsewhere it comfortably. We have finished a little project, is now you're joined to make your own tray. And when you're finished, share in the produce section so other students can see it as well. Thank you so much for watching this lesson. I hope you have enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next one.