How to Make a Medieval Belt Pouch - Fantasy Inspired

what's up everybody today we're making a fantasy inspired belt pouch with a drawstring you can find the artwork and patterns for all my projects on my website and my Etsy shop link in the description down below you can also find the same pattern and artwork month to month on my patreon so have a look at that this video is sponsored by Lonsdale leather be sure to check their link out in the description for tools supplies and of course leather I'm using a 5 ounce vegetable tan here because I want to be able to carve this project and it will give me more options when it comes to coloring it's a little more finicky when you're dealing with the back side of your leather so you got to make a call if you want to carve it and how much you care about being able to make your item whatever color you want or if you want to go with something that's already fully dyed you might be able to go 6 7 ounce on some of these parts but I wouldn't go too much heavier after we're done cutting out all these pieces I'm going to bevel both sides I'm gonna use a very small bevel or number 1 depending on where you buy your bevel or from that number 1 could mean a few different things for sizing so you may have to experiment a little bit until you figure out which one you like but if you're going with a 5 ounce leather definitely keep your bevel small because you want to burnish and rounder these edges off eventually and if you put too much of the bevel on there you're gonna get a really sharp edge now for the gusset of this project I went with some black deer tan cowhide deer tan is a great substitute for actual deer it's a little bit heavier but still just too soft it's got a great finish it's also less stretchy than regular deer more consistent you can get it in larger sides obviously and it's cheaper now I'm using a bell sky right here because I'm gonna do a roll to edge on this and in my pattern there will be both a rolled edge version where you can bail skive it most of you guys don't have a bail Sciver or just a regular edge so don't sweat it too much now I'm just gonna fold over all my edges with some double-sided tape and then I'm snipping off one layer of what all these edges join just to make it a little less bulky hit it with my rubber mallet make sure everything's nice and flat and then it's time to carve my project so I whip my whole piece because I want to make sure there's no strange discoloring when I wet stuff and then I'm just gonna put this simple knot on I'm just using my favorite stylus to get this indented into the leather before I carve it figuring out how wet you like your leather takes practice but I generally don't like it too wet that is to say that the surface itself is not dry but cool to the touch and it's still got a wet core make sure you keep your blades polished the more angled your blade the easier it is to do sharp turns I almost exclusively no that's not that's not true at all I exclusively use this blade I don't use anything else I don't see a reason to at this point maybe eventually I will but it turns really well I can get good tight circles and it stays pretty sharp once we've got all these cuts done it's time for our bevel I just make sure you have nice consistent hammer strikes working your way around your project until completion I also will rub my beveler along the area that I've belt to smooth it out a little bit if it's looking slightly inconsistent I also do this along the top edge where the flat surface of the piece starts to bevel because often there is a line there I want it to round off nicely so I'll do a little rub up there to get rid of that line I wasn't sold on how I was gonna do this yet so I waited till now to put this in I throw those holes in there to round the corners slightly and it makes it a lot easier to bevel too obviously this is a light-brown pro feeding style the pro dyed dyes way lighter and I wanted a nice even light brown as my base for this project because I decided that in the middle of a video would be the best time to experiment and I wanted to do some airbrushing with a dark brown around the edges because I'm gonna be going around the edge with a airbrush and a dark brown I'm using that same dark brown here the plan with the airbrush is to make an antiqued gradient look to the edge so I'm going to feather it along supposedly and give it a really cool look obviously any of you guys that watch my channel regularly certainly know that if it gets dye that goes through it or a finish that goes through it I don't take care of it very well so I'm happy that this airbrush was still working when I set it up for the first time in a few years so it's pretty obvious what I'm doing here I'm spraying on an angle and I'm trying to spray off of the piece a little bit and then work my way back to get that gradient while it's wet it looks really cool when it dried it looks a little less cool but it still worked out the way I had hoped but I'll need to experiment a little bit to make sure I get the most contrast next time most people when they're doing edges have access to beeswax so I did this beeswax edge I wasn't sure about using the token all that I started using last project and I wasn't sure if the token all was as good as I had thought it was so I did a little experiment I did beeswax first which all of you guys will have access to there's also an edge compound called gum tragacanth I think is how it's said I always forget how it's said but I decided to use token all again use a dauber instead of my finger and token all is amazing I would recommend it wholeheartedly to anybody supposedly there's a place in North America selling it now because you could only get it in Japan before if it's not in the description of this video be sure to ask me here and I'll put it in a might be forgetful well I am forgetful as you can see here after I apply it with the dauber I wipe it away with a piece of paper towel just to get rid of any excess so it doesn't get all over the place it seems to work pretty well after we're done burnishing all of our pieces we're gonna do a little buff with some sheep's wool to get rid of any marks or inconsistencies and then in theory we're gonna move on to our next piece but we forgot to do this part that's a lot of token all but I came up with an amazing idea it's either gonna work or be a disaster alright you would be absolutely amazed at how impressed with myself I was for that unlike my airbrush my spray gun is the disaster so this spray job is a little inconsistent but I get it done I'm also using that Angelus matte finish because I'm gonna be doing some painting like you see here and I'm using Angelus paints so I might as well stay consistent probably not totally necessary but whatever so I think this is some taupe color I'm gonna do a still pretty light color but I'm gonna go around the whole not in one shade and then lighten it slightly and then do another shade on top but not as much area to kind of give it a little more of a 3d look I was very tempted to take my Warhammer painting miniatures years and add even more highlights to these knots but I think I was gonna start getting a little ridiculous and part of the charm of this paint job is anybody can do that you guys can all do that paint job no problem then I do another awkward protective coat of Angelus I decided to experiment again I'd originally dyed the back of all these pieces with dark brown Pro dye but I'm doing dark brown alcohol based dye because I wanted a really dark and consistent looking and then I'm putting some token all on top which I've never done before again great time to do this kind of stuff in the middle of a video for people the only problem was I had bleed through from the back around that cut square into the front and I had to work some magic which I wasn't recording on with some paint to touch it up a little bit so just be careful around that edge don't go crazy then after that I spray everything with the finish again I decided to put a stone on here it's about one inch long and the size of the stone will obviously change the size of this hole the hole needs to be smaller than the stone so it's secure and you should experiment on how you want to cut this hole with scrap first and also cut the hole well before you die and put a finish on this just in case you screw it up it can be really finicky now I'm just gonna rough up the leather and rough up the stone and apply some five-minute epoxy this is also something I've never done before not the five minute epoxy but adding a stone to my work so this is just another experiment for this project I do a lot of machine sewing I have sewing machines I'm gonna use them but for this pattern I'll have a lot of spots where you can rivet instead of so and this is one of those spots for sure I'm picturing three or four rivets plus that epoxy on the stone or glass whatever you're using should hold it just fine I've modified the pattern once again for where I want to place my belt loops this may be a little different on the final pattern but for now this is what I'm going with once again this is a spot that would be just fine for rivets but I've decided to use my sewing machine because I'm gonna stay consistent through this project things go a little ass-backwards here but I wanted to leave this footage in just because it kind of amuses me I've marked the center point and the edge ends for my gusset and I'm going to stitch it on the original plan was to stitch the whole gusset on and then for some reason so the center strip on afterwards and I was just going to slowly invert the pouch and keep sewing it because that seemed like the perfect solution to this and it definitely was not I also forgot to sew the edge of my gusset for the pouch entry area so I've cut away and sew my edge again you won't need to do this if you are not skiving it or if you do not have an incredibly thin leather and then I just gotta sew those edges up again yeah easy everything is perfect no problem we're gonna mark a spot for the keeper and quickly sew it on once that's done it's time to somehow so this Center strip onto a pouch and gusset that is already assembled let me repeat that already assembled let's give it a try there definitely has to be a better way of doing this and I was gonna leave it I had managed to sew the top edge and then down 3/4 of the center strip and then awkwardly sewed the back onto it but there was a big spot where it wasn't stitched at all and it just looked like well it looked like ass so I did the only reasonable thing and I once again started to disassemble my project so for the sake of this tutorial pretend none of that happened we're just gonna go back in time as if I have not stitched the gusset on yet completely all I've done so far is I've stitched the gusset on just at the bottom there just like it is now just a straight across and then we just go around this whole thing and stitch it down this will be beautiful but my camera dies just go all the way around that center strip you start at the top you go all way down to the little point and go all the way back up the other way that is also another part that can be riveted on and I'll have the rivet marks in the pattern and once we've got that on we can stitch both sides of the gusset separately and everything works out really nice the last thing to do is to make your drawstring you need two separate sides put a point I'm tapering it here just to make sure the knot is as small as possible and then I'm gonna thread it through the back of my pouch like this here and then it's got a nice tiny knot because I cut it down then you just thread it all through both sides of your project tie another knot to make sure that it doesn't slide out the other side or put something on there to stop it from sliding out the ends of these laces is a good spot to add a little individualization to your project maybe some beads maybe some sinew or bone bits or something cool all I do is tie some knots and then I cut the lace in half done make sure you hit that like button if you enjoyed the video subscribe for future videos hit that notification button so you don't miss any of my content and until next time keep on being creative in whatever it is you do

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Length: 13min 47sec (827 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 30 2020