How to Make the "Buckhorn" Briefcase

hey welcome back everybody this is going to be a project video and in this video we're going to build the buckhorn bag if you've been following us on instagram or social media over the last month or so you've probably seen us building this bag um we finished it recently and so this is going to be the video where we're going to show you how to make this bag from start to finish this bag total size of it if anybody's curious as far as finished size it's about 18 inches wide finishes out to about 13 13 and a half inches tall and somewhere in a neighborhood of six inches wide so each one of these compartments is roughly three inches wide this bag was kind of a modification off of it started out as a messenger bag or what was called pony express bag traditionally that bag was made of a much softer type of chapped leather and the front came all the way down to the bottom of the front panel other than this bag having a little shorter front different type of closure and being built from a little firmer type leather this is pretty much the same bag so if you wanted to convert this pattern into a what i would call a pony express bag that's just the name we came up with based on a customer's request designing about years ago and it's basically going to be a very similar bag same kind of pocket here in the back we went ahead and called it the buckhorn bag because of the way the the gentleman that ordered it wanted some tooling on it but not a lot so he didn't want the whole bag completely fully tooled so we added a few accent pieces here on the bag on the back pocket here this piece we added this little trim piece and then on the front we just did this here on the on the front flap and that allowed us to get a little bit of tooling on there it also added a little stability to the front end of the flap as well as for the box loop closure so if you'll look real close this is what i call a box loop closure so you're going to have basically we just ended up using a deer antler now you could definitely if you wanted to if you preferred you could tool a tab and do like a leather a leather piece that's sewn on here and tooled as well with just a strip that would also a strip of leather that would drop down into that loop and that would close this bag up just fine as well he wanted to incorporate a little bit of deer antler on there and so that's what we use there and we just used another button here and here on the strap for this x lacing here on the shoulder strap and as well as just to tether this little piece of deer handler to the front so you don't lose it you can you do this closure a number of different ways like i said you don't have to use a deer antler if you don't have access to one or don't really want that because of the way the bag want you want it to turn out you don't want to use a deer handle that's fine but basically all it is is the flap has a hole a square hole or a box hole there then we did stitch around that and then the on the front you stitch a loop here and this loop comes up you kind of close it together and it comes out enough to where when the flap comes around it can drop right over that loop like so and you can see how much of that sticks out and then you just drop that antler in there and that secures the flap so that it doesn't come off it's a very easy way to do a closure on a bag you could definitely do a buckle and strap here if you wanted to you can do a magnetic closure i would advise not using if you're going to use a magnetic closure be sure you've got some type of safety latch on it or something because this bag does have a handle on the flap and if you're just using just a magnetic closure every time you pick the bag up it's probably going to come on unhinged there so it's not going to stay closed so i would do something more secure there either some type of latch or bag closure of some sort but but as you can see on the inside of the bag it's got quite a bit of room you don't really need really super wide gussets this bag will hold a lot of stuff it'll hold probably a couple laptops a binder or two just a number of different things one thing i want to mention too on this as you see us building this bag it is very easy if you would like to sew on some pin holders business card holders maybe some extra pockets you can definitely sew that onto the center panel before you get to assembling the bag he didn't request that and didn't want a lot of extra stuff as far as on the interior for storage so we didn't do that on this bag but that would be something very easy to do you can modify this bag a lot to really fit your needs and kind of what you're after so we do have a pattern pack for this bag and this is the very first of our large format printed packs and so if you would like to make this bag and you want all the patterns for it it does come with five new tooling patterns for these little accent pieces so there are no patterns there are no tooling patterns for the entire bag we may do an accessory pack later down the line where we do one fully tooled but for right now all we're doing is just the accent pieces so there's five new tooling patterns for this front panel and for this back accent piece here and then of course all the cut patterns for the bag for the gussets shows you all the measurements shows you um all the measurements for the strap handle the bag itself and suggestions as far as weights of leather and what you're going to use but if you would like to get that the link is down in the description of this video so click the link down the description you can purchase that we are not offering this as a instant download at this time just because it's so big the the pages of this of this sheet are very large and so you wouldn't be able to print it out on your own printer very easily and so we're only offering it in the printed version but if you want that you can certainly grab that but we're going to get started i'm going to show you to make this bag from start to finish so let's get started all right so we're going to build a bag it's gonna be somewhat of a soft briefcase this is the one that we've talked about in some of our instagram and monday morning briefing episodes i've created a new pattern for this but we've got our pattern for our main body we've got our pattern made for our front and center dividers this will be two compartments and so this will be the front panel and then we've got a smaller pocket because we will put an exterior pocket on the back of the bag like so and so those are our main three patterns we'll cut out four pieces because we'll cut this one out twice uh this bigger one and then we'll go ahead and cut that out what we're going to be cutting that out of is going to be the new leather from herman oak that aaron at maker's leather supply is carrying and this is the expedition the other one i think is called 1880 but it is a waterproof vegetan type chap leather it feels this is a little bit the expedition is a little bit more stiff it's got a little bit more temper to it it's not quite as soft if you're wanting to make a jacket or maybe a pair of leggings or something then the 1880 is going to be the one that you'd prefer this material here is perfect for this type of bag one because it's waterproof which is really really interesting and it is we've put water on it already and and it's pretty neat which leather traditionally is somewhat waterproof anyway to an extent on some of your chapped leathers but this leather being a veg stand is really interesting so but we're going to go ahead and cut out the panels on this and we'll get all our patterns cut out now we've got all our pieces and we'll begin building this bag one of the first things i like to do on these hides is to look at it and find out where any of our blemishes are these got i've got a little bit of spotting here and there so we'll try to work around that best we can but what we'll cut out first is going to be the biggest panel and we'll go ahead and get that traced off and get it cut out since the flap of this bag it's going to take the most abuse because that's the one that you're going to be pulling to open the bag all the time and everything else i'm going to try to put it in this butt area because just like any other hide that we cut parts out of the butt area is going to be your most dense area and so we'll try to cut it out right there i want to cut it as high on the side as possible because we are going to have to get gusset pieces out of here and so we'll have to be careful in fact i might cut this one like this since we will have a outside pocket sewn over the top of this this blemishing down here we can hide inside the bag it's not too terrible so that will actually fit right there very well so we're going to go ahead and cut it just like that i want to save some length on the side because we've got to get our gussets out of here as well okay so now on our pattern we have uh the area of the bag the top flap basically that's going to signify kind of how wide the opening of the bag will be there'll be two compartments we've got a six inch opening here um in between the top of the back panel and or you know the top where it folds over the back of the bag and then where the flap breaks over so six inches i want two compartments so that basically means i need each compartment to be around three inches the gusset strips i'm going to go ahead and cut those three and three-quarter so when you take the gusset and you sew it in you're gonna eat up probably a quarter inch to three-eighths of an inch where you sew it and so i don't want to cut them exactly three inches because then you're going to end up with a narrower main body of the bag so what we're going to do is we're going to cut them three and three-quarter inches wide and that'll give us three-eighths of an inch on either side for us to sew down our gusset and that should end up with a even if it's a little oversized that's fine it can kind of squish down but we're going to go with three and three quarter inches on our gusset strips and we'll just straight edge this side right here and then we'll cut our strips now you can definitely make a mark at that end then at this end and then go through but i find that if you'll do a few of them it's leather so it kind of moves you may not have cut it just exactly straight so i like to do a few marks at our three and three quarter and then we'll line up from mark to mark kind of make sure that they're all pretty close like this one it's pretty good but sometimes you'll find that you're on the mark here but then you're covering a mark here so i just kind of walk it as i go because your side may not be cut just right so i want to be sure they're the same distance we need two of them so we'll do one again all right so there's our gusset pieces we'll roll those up we don't need those right now now we're going to need a strap for this bag and so what we're going to do is i'm going to end up cutting an inch and a half strip and i'm going to cut a couple of them just so i have enough material but since this bag is gonna have one strap it's gonna be two compartment you could probably make it kind of heavy depending on what he puts in there i'm gonna go ahead and cut the strap an inch and a half wide i'm not sure exactly what i'm gonna do on the strap yet but i'm gonna go ahead and gather my material while we're in this side right now and i've got this straight edge before i decide to cut something else out of it so i'm gonna go ahead and grab me a couple inch and a half strips off of here all right so we've got pretty good amount of material left that's one side so we're going to get pretty much the entire bag outside of some liner leather and stuff like that that we're going to use you could certainly line the rest of it with this but i'm going to save that material and line the inside of it with just some 3 4 herman oak vegetan we'll cut that out next and then we've got our gusset pieces cut we've got us a couple strips for our belts we've got the main body piece here we'll go go together we've got our our front panel which will go on the front obviously we've got our front panel and then we've got our back pocket and our back pocket will go on like so and so those are all the pieces of the big pieces that we need for the bag i would always recommend cutting your biggest pieces out first go ahead and get those and be mindful of all the little pieces that you might need there may be some other stuff that we're going to need for little hangers or different things or maybe the closure and so this nice butt piece right here that's left we're gonna save it this little piece here that's probably trash but then you've got this little piece where we straight as a side i save all that stuff i don't know why uh eventually i'll go through and sort out and throw stuff away but for the moment i saved that kind of scrap because you may need it for something along the project we've still got a pretty good amount on that side left if we need it hopefully we don't mess something up and have to cut out a big piece because then we'll probably have to order more leather but those are all our pieces now i will cut out my liner pieces for different panels and we're going to do some scalloped overlays with tooling on them and so we'll get those pieces cut out as well all right so i've got a partial side here of some five six ounce herman oak veg tan leather and we're gonna go ahead and use that for our trim pieces i cut out two trim piece patterns so this is the back pocket here and we'll have this little piece of trim on the top one thing it'll do is it'll stabilize the top of the pocket and also allow us to put a little decoration on there so we'll go ahead and tool that piece it'll just give this uh top of this outside pocket a little bit more stability same thing with the front flap of the main part of the bag we've got this little trim piece here which will just give the flap a little bit of weight we are going to have a certain closure we'll show you how we'll do that that'll stabilize this end here that'll actually close the bag and so we're just going to cut these two pieces out of this 5 6 ounce hermann oak and then we'll get it prepped and get it tooled before we start assembling the bag [Music] [Music] so now we'll line this bag and go ahead and line the front panel and the back panel for the main panel main flat and this is a lighter weight height of three four it's just quite quite heavy enough um i mean it worked for belt liners and stuff but i kind of pulled it off to the side because it was really kind of a little lighter weight than than three four so we're going to go ahead and cut liners i'm not going to line the back pocket i may have as we get going but i think i'm going to leave it unlined we'll just kind of see so we'll go ahead and grab a liner for this and what i'm going to do is just cut this a little wide and we'll glue this whole thing to this leather here and that way it gives that bag just a little bit more body not something you have to do if you like the weight of the leather you definitely don't have to do this but i'm going to do it just because i want the bag to be a little bit heavier than the single weight of the chap leather and i'm going to cut this out a little bit wider than this that'll help you if you don't you don't want to cut this out perfectly the same shape as what you're going to line because it makes it very hard on something especially this large to line everything up so if you'll cut it over size just a little bit maybe half inch maybe not even that that'll give you a little bit of grace there when you go to gluing these two pieces together and it'll give you a little room all right since i've got enough material i'm going to go ahead and line this it won't be too heavy i don't think so we're going to go ahead and cut out a liner so that we have it if we need it and i believe i'll go ahead and go ahead and line it since i've got plenty of room it's a nice nice spot in the hide and it's somewhat thin and so just a good opportunity to keep it smooth on the interior for sliding papers in or anything like that all right so now i've got this this piece of five ounce here we're going to go ahead and cut our center panel out of that and that will be the center panel for the bag and that way it's not we're not wasting the 1880 leather we can just use this and it'll all look the same on the inside it'll all be just natural veg so real quick i just wanted to hop in here i did do this and i was gonna just do the center panel out of all veg but i ended up as you'll see later in the video the center panel is out of the 1880 i just ended up not liking how this particular leather turned out for the center panel so we went back and did it out of the same leather as the rest of the bag and that's fine too go ahead and cut a liner out of this while we're cutting liners and align this piece all right so we've got all our cut pieces out this is our our gusset material we've got those cut three and three quarter inches wide and i just cut them long enough to to make the gusset pieces with depending on the front panel cut inch and a half strips two pieces for the strap whatever we decide to do with the strap so we're gonna guess it strips for that we have our front panel with liner we've got our middle section with liner we've got our main body of our bag or the the back top and flap cut there and we've got our rear pocket with liner then we've also got our trim pieces for the back pocket and the front panel which will be tooled so we will have to prep these for tooling now and get those done that'll be the first thing we do is tool these two strips so they're done then we can begin to assemble the bag and like i said we will laminate all these pieces with liner we'll go ahead and glue those together get all that done do our edge our top edge sewing and all that edge slicking all that get everything ready to go to assemble the bag but now we have everything here minus hardware that we need i'm not sure how i'm going to do the buckle hangers yet but we'll get into that as we move through the video and how we're going to attach the strap we'll do that also the closure i kind of know how we're going to do that so let's get started we'll get these tools and then we'll be ready to start assembling this bag as normal we're just going to go ahead and add our blue tape onto our pieces here that's just going to keep that leather from stretching as we're tooling it like we do in all our other videos [Music] do [Music] so so all right so our pieces are tooled they've already been oiled i did a light coat of olive oil on there for a honey finish and they've been sealed with tan coat and now we're just doing our antique process you can refer to our antiquing video if you'd like to see what that entire process is like we do have that on our channel as well and then after we get through antiquing them we went ahead and edged them so i edged them and slicked the edges and everything and let them dry i didn't catch the footage of that but again we've got videos on edging getting those nice edges the way you want them and here i'm just applying a five beans brown pro dye to the edges which is what i use for the majority of my edge work so we'll go ahead and start with our back pocket so this is the exterior rear pocket as you can see we went ahead and lined that we decided to line it with a 3 4 veg 10 herman oak leather there and we're going to go ahead and take our tool trim piece and mark where it goes on the top there just try to line it up put us a little pencil mark we'll go ahead and glue these and let that glue set good and then we'll go ahead and glue them in place and get that sewn and get the top edge edged and slicked ready to go so that pockets ready to install when we begin to assemble the bag [Music] now when you begin to sew this top trim on this pocket be sure and not sew the outer edges of it because we'll sew that when we sew the gussets in on the bag so all you want to do is sew the top edge and then the bottom edge of that trim piece leave the sides undone we'll catch those when we sew the gussets in place [Music] do [Music] [Music] so now that piece is all sewn on this is a good opportunity to kind of take a little razor blade and go ahead and trim any little bit of excess when you cut that out you might not cut it out just perfect go ahead and trim any excess off of that chap leather to the tool piece and that'll make make a nice edge there that you don't have to do as much sanding when we go ahead and slick the sand edge and select this piece [Music] now i'm using a power sander here you can obviously do this with a sand and block a couple different style sanding blocks i'll have to catch those tight corners with my round sanding sanding peg there at the workbench but we got ahead and went ahead and got it all sanded now we're just going to get that edge slicked and do a nice job here this is going to be an exposed exterior pocket so you want a nice edge there that's nice and clean and attractive [Music] so now we'll begin the lamination process or the lining process of all of our bigger parts this is going to take a lot of glue and so you might want to be sure and open a window or something in your shop if you're in real tight quarters we've got really tall ceilings in our shop so it's not quite as bad but this will cause a little bit of a smell in your shop so but i'll do two coats on these i want this liner glued in really really well and so here we've done two coats and this piece is tacky and ready to stick down be sure that you set it where you want it whenever you glue it down because that leather is gonna stick immediately once it touches each other so you want to be sure you got it where you want it and i'll go ahead and kind of just push it in place once it's it's there and i know that's where i need it i'll go ahead and turn it over and we're going to gla grab our glass slicker there you can use anything that's kind of smooth and flat like that that you can just press and get a good contact on everywhere on that liner i don't want any bubbles in there or anything like that we want to make sure it's glued really well now that we've got that glued and it's nice we're going to go ahead and trim that and trim all the excess off usually on most of my projects i'll leave a feather on our projects but on this we've got a lot of things to line up so go ahead and trim that feather off flush with all the panels as you line them and so here this is our front panel so what i'm going to do is go ahead and scribe me a line there and i'm going to sew the top edge again you don't want to sew down the sides we're going to sew that up when we sew the gussets but we do want to sew that very top edge on the machine and get those that top edge sanded edged and slicked and ready to go we'll do the exact same thing with the center panel of this bag so both of these panels will be built exactly the same [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] all right here's our main body piece of our bag this one's going to be a big one to kind of try to glue so you're going to have to be sure you've got enough space bench space to be able to lay this out same thing as we did on the other two you're going to go ahead and put two coats on here letting them dry in between and then you'll glue this thing in place just take your time be careful line everything up it should go fairly smoothly [Music] wow [Music] now that we've got the main body piece lined we can go ahead and glue on our tooled piece onto the end of the flap we'll do the same thing as we did on the back pocket we'll go ahead and just set that on there make us a line with a pencil so we know exactly where it's going to go put glue on both pieces and glue it down and we'll go ahead and sew that don't don't cut that square hole out in the main body piece but cut it out in the tooled piece so that you know where it's going to go and you go ahead and kind of get a start on that but we'll cut the other the main body piece hole all at one time here in a [Music] minute [Music] [Music] now on the tool piece you will sew all the way around that piece because the gusset obviously will not go behind that along the sides of that so we'll go ahead and sew all the way around that because that's its own independent piece and it will not be attached to a gusset so i'm going to sew it all in place now [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now we've got that sewn i did scribe a line around our hole there our box hole our square hole there for the closure and i'm going to go ahead and sew around this you want to be very careful not to sew too close to the edge of that because we do have to trim that out and then sand it and edge it and everything so just kind of stay off of that a little bit be sure your tulin doesn't get too close to that hole when you lay out your [Music] [Music] pattern [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right so here we're going to go ahead and cut that hole out through the main body panel where the square hole is so what i'm going to do is take a number two and punch holes in the very corner that's going to make cutting this hole out very easy and make it very clean and so then we're gonna once we punch those holes we're gonna end up using a chisel so i'm gonna put a little piece of leather behind there so i've got a backing and i'm using a very simple cheap little chisel wood chisels i think is what they are you can buy these at hobby lobby or any arts and crafts store you'll see a close-up of it here in just a minute but i did buff that off really good on a buffing wheel and make it a mirror mirror polish they're sharp but they're not very smooth when you first get them but they work great for applications like this and it's much easier than using a knife or a razor blade to try to cut that square hole out [Music] now here your edger may or may not do a really nice job in that square hole as far as edging it these are ron's edgers and they're round edgers and they they're fairly easy to get in tight corners so you might just have to sand that if your edger won't get in there really well you might have to just take some sandpaper and try to try to do your best to kind of bevel that edge off a little bit so when you slick it it looks nice [Music] so [Music] all right so now we're going to line up the rear pocket and go and glue it in place as you can see i've sewn a line on each side of the flap where it breaks over the top of the bag you're going to want to go ahead and go go ahead and sew that now and that way you don't do it when the bag is built but if you lay the middle or the front panel on the back of the bag you can mark where the top of those panels are going to be and then sew those two lines going towards your tooling on the end of your flap and then i've marked where the back rear pocket is going to be and so we'll go ahead and now glue the edge of that all the way around and glue the edge of the main panel where it's going to go and glue that in place [Music] i've got the pocket glued in well we're going to go ahead and hammer that in just a little bit like we do everything else we want it to stick really well and then i'm going to take a razor blade and just kind of trim that edge around there i want that edge as flush and nice as possible because we will be lining up gussets on there so you don't want any miss overhang on there either on the main body or on the pocket all right and now we can begin to form our gussets and so what i'm doing here is just taking one of the panels and just rolling it down the gusset to make sure i have more than enough material to work with the first thing i'm going to do and i do this on all my gussets is i'm going to take a half inch and put a mark a half inch off the edge and then i'm going to draw a line and then we'll sky that and fold that top edge and sew it we'll do that to both gusset pieces and so one side of each piece will be rolled and sewn for a nice appearance in the bag when it's done and then we'll go forward there to try to determine how long that gusset needs to be before we sew the other end of those and so here we're just going to come back you're going to have a half inch roll so it's going to be roughly three quarters to an inch that you're going to skive there we're just going to kind of sky that down you don't want to go too too thin there you just want to skive it down to where it lays nicely on the back and to where it'll roll over nice and so you can kind of feel of it and kind of see if you've taken off enough or whatever but don't take too much off because it'll it'll be too thin and floppy up there so you do want some body there [Music] so [Music] so now we've glued those and let the glue set now we've rolled them and kind of hammer them down nice and smooth you can see how nice of an appearance that makes the top edge of that gusset so we'll go ahead and sew a little strip come off the edge a little bit leave yourself you know three three eighths or so maybe half inch off each edge of that top seam and that way you've got enough when you sew down when you sew the gussets in you're not getting into those stitches or when you're doing any trim work [Music] all right so now we're going to take one of the gussets and we're going to go ahead and pick an edge it doesn't matter which edge you use and we're just going to put glue all the way down that edge and then we're going to take one of the panels whichever one you want to use and we'll go ahead and put glue around the edge of that as well on one side and then that will allow us to go ahead and glue that gusset in as if we were installing it and allowing us to determine what the mark is on the other side where we need to fold and stitch for that top edge roll on that [Music] now as you glue this gusset in you want to be sure and line up the top nice and flush and then glue this gusset down i don't leave much overhang at all if any when i'm gluing the gussets in i want them pretty well lined up because our gussets are specific width so if you start leaving a lot of overhang you can change the the width that you wanted to come out with at the end you can change that if you're not lining that up really well when you get to a corner depending on the softness of your material this material is a little stiffer so you've got to kind of just stretch it doesn't stretch much but you've got to kind of stretch it around there and put a couple pleats in there and just start gluing it down and working it with your fingers there to make it make that corner the more round your corners are the easier this is if you're doing more square corners you're gonna have a really hard time there getting these to make that turn but we'll go all the way around this panel piece with this gusset [Music] [Applause] so [Music] now if we're happy with how our gussets on there we're going to go ahead and make a pencil mark right at the top edge of the panel that's going to tell us where that leather needs to fold that's not your cut line that's where the leather is going to fold so now we'll take the gusset completely off you don't need to do two coats here we will when we install the gusset finally but here the one coat's fine we're just trying to get it in place where it's going to live now we'll go back to our mark that we made and we're going to use a square of some sort and we're going to make a straight line straight across there then we'll add a half inch to that and then make another straight line this will be your cut line so then what you can cut that and then that point you can roll it just like you did the other side and that gusset will be the perfect length for whatever material or whatever size your your bag you're making [Music] [Music] now all the math is done so you can take your other gusset and line up your rope two rolled edges there at the top line those up and then you can just simply make a mark on it and cut that there they'll both be exactly the same size they're both going to be attached to the same size middle section you're good to go now you can skive glue and roll and stitch these top edges here and your gussets will be ready to install [Music] [Applause] [Music] so now we'll go ahead and start putting glue on our gussets just like we did a minute ago but here you're going to be sure that you've got good contact of glue if your leather is a little oily or a little waxy you might need to add a little bit extra glue you might have trouble you might have to use clamps to hold the gusset in place you'll have to determine that based on the material that you choose i would recommend choosing a chap leather that glues well it's hard to fight gussets when they're sliming around on slimy glue but there are ways around that now the panel that we're gluing this gusset to is the center panel you want to start with the center panel because it's going to be the one that has two gussets both of the gussets attached to it so we're going to go ahead and glue the first one on which this is the back side of the front panel remember i was going to use all veg for the center panel but i decided to go ahead and use the 1880 the leather that i had chosen just didn't feel right when we were putting further on we were kind of gluing it together and stuff and so i just i had enough of that material left so i decided to use the same stuff but we'll get one glued on one side one of the gussets onto one side of it and then we'll prepare the front panel we'll scratch it up with a little sandpaper so the glue sticks good and then we'll glue the other gusset on the face of this one so when we sew the gussets in here we'll be sewing through both of them so two gussets one center panel that'll go ahead and get that out of the way so you're basically the guts of your bag are ready to install the front and rear panel on and the bag will be assembled [Music] like i said right here i'm just using a little piece of sandpaper and scratching that edge where the glue is going to go don't scratch in too far you just want to rough it up a little bit so the glue makes good contact [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right so here we're going to go ahead and glue our second gusset in and it's on the face of the middle section or the divider and so you're going to do it exactly the same way you did the back one just be sure that all these layers are lining up nicely so that when you stitch this you don't have a thread coming out in the wrong spot or something else the area of concern is going to be your corners make sure that your corners are nice and formed and you've got plenty of room in that corner to be able to move that material through the sewing machine without pushing your gusset out of the way or making it crawl around a little bit and that'll cause some problems so be sure you line all that up correctly [Music] so now here i would probably go ahead if you've got a nice tooling rock there or granite go ahead and hit those corners a little bit and be sure that they're formed nicely you can also use crimping pliers there if you've got some candle pliers you can use those there as well but just something to kind of be sure that all that's nice and flat i'm going to go ahead on the faces and describe us a line you want to be sure if it doesn't matter if all your material is the same it might not matter but on ours we've got veg on one side 1880 on the front and i want the 1880 to the front of the bag so be sure you sew it on the right side because your bobbin stitch will look different than your top stitch and so if it's pertinent on how it goes in the bag be sure you sew the correct side and here we're just going to take our time and we're going to sew around this bag and be sure that our gussets don't move while we're sewing take your time especially in the corners be very careful in the corners [Music] [Music] all right so we've got it all sewn it was a success everything sewed up well i have had trouble in my history with corners so that's why i keep rec keep mentioning them but as you can see there the corners are nice and round and everything's where it needs to be and there's no stitches that are have gone rogue and popped out in a corner or something that missed the gusset and here we're just going to sand all those edges together we're going to edge it we're going to slick it we're going to die and we'll do all that stuff now and the center guts of this bag will be ready to install [Music] all right now you want to take your main panel and turn it over to where it's face down there to where we can see the back side of it before you glue the front panel to your gusset assembly you're going to want to go ahead and place it on the back panel and mark the top edge on each side and it should be you should have already done this to get the stitches but you did it on the front so here you'll do it on the back side and put a little pencil mark that's going to tell you where to line up your gussets when we install the two pockets basically to this bag so you're going to want to put a mark there and put a mark on that side it's just going to tell you where your tops need to be to help get everything lined up and so that all the compartments are in line with each other and they're not crooked now we can take our front panel and go ahead and put glue on it all the way around the edge just like we did with the center panel and then you're going to take your center center panel assembly and you're going to take the front compartment or the front gusset and you're going to apply glue to the outer edge of that as well so we can glue this front panel in and get it sewn in place [Music] our glue has had time to dry so now we'll get everything glued in place it's exactly the same way as installing the other gussets except now you've got a little bit more to deal with because you've got them installed onto the center panel so you're just going to want to line up your top edge there and come down about two-thirds of the way down the side and then you're going to want to hop over to the other side line up that top edge before you get into the corners so we're going to get that kind of thumb down a little bit to where it's glued and kind of pull that out just a little bit and then we'll hop over there to the other side and line up the top edge i found that this is the best way to ensure that you get those two panels in line with each other and they're not cocked or skewed from one another because you put the gusset in a little crooked so line up your tops come down about two thirds of the way down the sides then you can start working the corners and making those turns and then the bottom usually the bottom line usually glues in really easy after that [Music] now here i wanted to show you a little trick there as far as using a pair of candle pliers or crimping pliers what some people call them but you be sure and back those pliers up with a little scrap of leather so that you don't mar the front panel of your bag but you can go in there and really crimp that corner down and give yourself enough flat space room there to where when you're sewing on the machine your machine isn't going to push that corner that gusset into the bag and then you'll miss stitching the gusset because remember that part on top that i'm crimping right now is on the bottom when you're stitching so you can't see it and if the machine's plate pushes that in you're not going to notice it and you're going to mis-stitch it and have to unstitch it and redo it [Music] take a minute right here just to look at your two panels and make sure that it sits flat both bottom lines are lined up and again they're not skewed on one another to where they're kind of crooked now you're just going to scribe you a line around there for sewing and it'll be ready to go to the machine and you go ahead and sew that other side of the gusset in [Music] now that's all sewn in and what i'll usually do is run my hand down in the bag and kind of push those corners out just a little bit break some of that glue loose and just make sure that the corners look nice and that they're not there's not a big crease or a big wrinkle in there or something like that if there is a lot of times you can push it out and you just kind of shape up that corner some we'll go ahead and sand and edge all this if you'll sand an edge as you go along assembling this bag it'll make it much easier because the further you get along the more cumbersome it is and harder it's going to be to run an edger on a three-dimensional object so i'll kind of do it in steps as i go and that way i can slick everything at one time at the end but at least get it sanded and edged and all that stuff now we'll go ahead and put some glue on the final gusset edge there we're going to go ahead and glue that and then we'll glue the same marked area on the inside of our main body that we marked before we glued the front panel on we'll go ahead and put glue there and then we'll place that in the bag and sew it up and we'll be ready to go [Music] not only for glue placement but also for gluing the gusset in this is where those marks come in really handy so you're going to want to do the same thing you did on the front panel you're going to glue this top edge maybe two thirds of the way down hop over to the other side line that up with your mark the top edge of your gusset on that side was your mark and then you can work your corners and then glue down the middle section if you do that most of the time all three panels will be perfectly aligned by the time you're done so that's just kind of a trick that's how i work my gussets from getting to get them where i want them [Music] hmm [Music] so so [Music] again take a minute here just to kind of look at the bag make sure that everything's straight everything's square the bag sets flat if you need to readjust something or reset something it's a lot easier to do when it's just glued together than it is when you've sewn it so just kind of take a minute and check that out now we'll take our calipers and we'll do the same thing we're just going to scribe us a line around there and you'll see i'm going to sew this a particular way on the machine but we're going to go ahead and scribe a line all the way around the final part of the bag to sew that last piece of gusset in [Music] [Applause] place okay so now i'm gonna start about two or three stitches up from where i stopped my stitches that are just on the flap of the bag i'm gonna do that so that it ties all those stitches together and kind of locks them all in and then we'll go ahead and sew up to the pocket but don't jump up on top of the pocket in my opinion it looks unsightly if you do that unless that skived down really nicely but as you can see that pocket is fairly thick so i'm going to sew right up to it and i'm going to stop and backstitch then we'll pull it out cut threads and then we'll start again up on top of the pocket edge at the top edge that's just going to keep one of those funky stitches that just kind of jumps up off the lower section onto a higher section i just personally don't like to ever see that and so that's just what i'm going to do there so it's just a little little advice just kind of a personal preference but that's what i like to do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] all right now it's technically a bag so one thing that i did decide to do after i sewed the bag was i'm gonna go ahead and punch a number five hole right there at the top corner of the main body where the gusset ties in i'm doing that to add a rivet because that area is going to be a high stress point and i don't trust the stitches alone to hold it in place and so we're going to go ahead and just put a copper rivet there and that's going to just strengthen that bag in an area that's probably going to get a lot of abuse because that flap isn't necessarily light and that's where the hinge is basically of opening the bag and closing the bag so we're going to go ahead and just do a rivet there you could do a number of other things to strengthen that but that's what i decided to do it kind of went with the bag [Music] now the bag is completely assembled for the most part as far as the body of the bag the whole of the bag and so now we'll go ahead and do any minor trimming kind of look at your edges look at panels make sure everything's straight make sure that you're happy with the way the bag has come together and then do any kind of heavy trimming we're going to do some sanding on this on the machine but i'll usually go ahead and just kind of trim off anything that i see that might need to come off and then we'll go ahead and sand edge all that stuff now on this piece [Music] [Music] [Music] now here i had to figure out exactly where the loop was going to go for the box box loop closure on the front panel so i just used some clamps there some little binder clips and i got the panel about where i wanted it as far as where i thought it comfortably stayed whenever the bag was closed and i clamped them in place and now this will allow me to take a pencil and go ahead and make a square there where it's going to go where the box loop needs to be and so we'll go ahead and draw that on the front panel remove the clips open it up and that'll tell us exactly where that loop is going to be so we'll go ahead and build that loop now now for our loop here for the closure i'll just use the same material that we built the bag out of i cut it three quarters of an inch wide by four inches long and we'll go ahead and kind of get an idea here of how much needs to stick out for our antler closure but i've got it all marked on the pattern pack so if you get that it'll show you exactly how to mark that and its placement on the front panel so you would have already had this piece sewn onto the front panel before you installed it into the gussets but here i'm having to decide where that's going to be in order to create the pattern so we're going to go ahead and make this piece and then go ahead and hand sew it on the face of the bag [Music] now i've already kind of marked it it's about an inch off each end is what we're going to sew to the bag but that middle section is going to poke out of that box hole that square hole we're going to go ahead and sew a line down each side of that and that way when we catch it with the hand stitches coming around it'll all look like it's all stitched and that'll be nice we went ahead and lined it as well with a little piece of two three ounce or three four ounces something thin and light just to give it a little strength so it's not floppy [Music] and as you can see there that little material made a really really nice loop i think that loop will last for many years it's it bends nice and it's kind of firm i think it's going to work really well [Music] now we'll let the edges dry on that little piece and we'll go ahead and slick all the edges on the bag while we're waiting so you can select all the edges on all the pieces that you've already edged and slicked and now this piece here i'm going to go ahead and mark since i'm hand stitching here so that's what i'm doing you you like i said would have already sewn this on but you can kind of see what i'm going to do here i'm going to go ahead and mark me a line and then i'm going to use an over stitch wheel to mark my holes and then we'll make all our holes with the awl in that piece and then i'll place it on the bag where i want it and then use my all again to just prick or mark the little holes each little hole on the face of the bag and then that way i can go ahead and make those holes because i'm having to work from down inside the bag and out so i want all the holes made already and this is a situation where pricking irons wouldn't work and in building a bag where you don't know where the placement is going to be and you're having to do it after the bag is built and so you'll see how i do that but i'm basically going to make all the holes in both pieces and then we'll go ahead and sew it with two needles and some tiger thread and get all that sewn in place [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now you can see how high that loop kind of sticks up there that's going to be enough material poking out from our square hole in our flap that we'll be able to fit the antler point down inside there or anything else like a leather strip or anything else this kind of type of closure works really well for notebooks and bags and anything else where you kind of need a a very utilitarian type closure that looks nice without using hardware now i've made a little pattern here for a handle and so we'll go ahead and cut that out of the same material i did cut this out of that little piece of butt that we had left that small butt piece from whenever we cut out all the parts of the bag and it's a very nice piece of leather and so we're going to make the handle of that since it's going to get so much wear and tear over time and it's going to be one of the main items that gets hands on it most of the time so go ahead and cut that out we're all going to line that with another piece of three-four veg herman oak and that'll stiffen it up just a little bit and then we'll sew it on the top of the bag now here i'm just trying to decide how much of each end of the of the bag handle i want sewn actually to the bag down to the bag top and so you can kind of do however much you want on there the pattern has how much i ended up doing i think i added a little bit to this measurement here in just a second but you just want to sew enough down that it's secure and we are going to add a rivet to that as well so because the handle is going to be carrying quite a bit of weight depending on what goes in the bag [Music] now we'll kind of do a similar thing like we did on the loop for the box loop closure we're just going to sew two lines not sewing yet what parts are going to be actually attached to the bag so we'll just hold two lines there that'll make the handle look like it's completely stitched and just give it a nice appearance and it'll match where it's actually sewn to the body of the bag [Music] now after some measuring and some head scratching i figured out exactly where the middle of the bag was when it's closed and that's what i was waiting on because i didn't know exactly how that that top was going to roll and exactly where the middle was going to be but i've already figured that math out now and so we've put a little bit of glue and i've marked where i want the handles and we're gonna go ahead and glue that in place on the pattern pack it does have that marked already so you if you're following the pattern pack you should already have sewn the handle on that back panel or the main panel of the bag before you put the bag together it makes it much easier because as you'll see in a second i've got to fight the whole bag in the machine while i'm sewing the little handles in place and that would have been much easier before the rest of the body was all put [Music] together [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so now here i'm going to kind of mark on each side the same distance and figure out exactly where i want to rivet you're going to want to put that rivet kind of right on line with where your stitches to the main body end and that way that rivets taking the strain before the stitches do that'll kind of help to keep those stitches from ever pulling loose and so we'll go ahead and put a number four hole there we'll use some copper rivets there we're going to put them face down so that you have the nice domed back of the rivet showing and not the burr side showing on the outside of the bag [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] now here i've got a little piece of that butt material left which is very good leather so i'm going to go ahead i've made me a little pattern for the d hangers for the shoulder strap so we'll go ahead and cut those out and you can use any size d any kind of attachment whatever you're wanting to do to attach your shoulder strap to the bag but this is what i used here and again we're going to have to hand sew these in place on the bag because i didn't know exactly where i wanted them as we're making patterns as we go here and i didn't have a pattern to go by and so i'm going to go ahead and hand stitch to stitch these in they ended up looking really nice being hand sewn so you may still want to do that but i would still recommend doing that on the gussets once your gussets are made so use the pattern you can figure out exactly where you want those to be and you can sew them in place flat instead of having to do it the way i'm going to do it here in a minute i also took a little piece of lining leather and just lined the bend area of these hangers just because they are going to get a lot of wear and tear uh carrying the bag obviously over time and so i don't want them to wear out so we're just adding that in as a little bit of reinforcement it's very thin very soft edge it's probably three ounce and then we'll cut that out sky the edges glue it right there in the middle it doesn't have to go all the way to the ends you can just do that bend area and out a little bit and that'll add just a little bit of protection against that d-ring wearing that leather out as easily [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] now before we glue these together with a d in them i'm going to go ahead and take just a little bit off the outer edge of the piece that's going to be up against the gusset so that the inside as we we fold this in half one side is going to be right up against the gusset i'm going to go ahead and sky that down just a little bit just so that it's not so bulky it'll just give it a little bit more of a refined look and it won't be so thick [Music] now i found some really neat antique hardware antique brass hardware from ohio travel bag and these little these they're i thought they were a little bit small but they actually looked really nice on the bag and for the snaps that i'm going to use on the shoulder strap in a minute i thought they went with it really well and so we went ahead and used those you can use again any size d any type of d whatever you want to use there but we'll just put that in there and we'll glue it down and we'll go ahead and sand and edge and slick and dye the edges of this thing and get it completely done and then we'll sew it onto the gussets [Music] now they've had time to dry they're ready to go we're going to go ahead and take our calipers and we're just going to make may describe us a line around there for our stitches and you're going to want to sew pretty close to that d so that you don't have a lot of slack in there if you've got a lot of slack in the bend area of the d-ring it'll eventually stretch out even more because it's allowed for movement in there so you're going to want to sew pretty close i'll take my overstitch wheel again anytime i'm hand stitching i will use that and i'm going to go ahead and just over stitch all the way around my line there and that'll mark where my stitches need to go i believe i'm using a number six here which is six six stitches per inch um and so but you can use any size you want i've got a number four number six number seven um you can use whichever one you prefer but we'll go ahead and do that and get those ready to glue in place on the gusset area where they're going to go [Music] now in a double compartment bag you can put these hangers on either gusset you prefer i personally feel like the hanger should always be on the rear gusset or the furthest back gusset because that's going to be when you're carrying the bag then the bag the bulk of the bag is hanging away from your body and not uh in between you it doesn't skew a line from the shoulder strap but that's just me personally that's how i like to do it so it is on the rear gusset near the main body panel so now we've got the bag mounted in our our stitching horse or stitching pony here and we're going to go ahead and just start stitching i will make multiple holes at one time just because i am having to work from inside the bag to outside but i don't make all my holes at one time i'm going to kind of do it one stitch at a time for the most part but i will make multiple holes ahead of myself just so i can kind of line stuff up a little easier and i'm not having to switch uh tools quite as often because i am having to kind of fight it going inside the bag and coming out of the bag like that [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hmm [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] all right so here i've got an antler shed and uh i didn't film the part where i cut the the brow tine off for the drop for the box loop closure but here we're going to go ahead and cut a little a couple little buttons that are going to accent the bag and i'm just cutting a little piece off and then we're taking just a sanding block and sanding that antler is really easy to work with actually it's nice it's really hard but it sands really well it cuts very easily and then here i'm just going to take a drill with a smaller bit in there and i'm just going to drill a hole a couple holes in there and that's just going to be to tie on for um on the strap and on the face of the bag so there's our drop point or our point there and we'll use that as a closure and there's one of our buttons you see the two holes and i've made two holes in the bag i just kind of eyeballed it but you can it's marked on the pattern where those actually are and then i cut a little piece of leather out of the same material there and that leather is probably a quarter inch maybe 3 16 something like that it's not very wide it's just more of like a lace leather and then i've made a knot in one end it will run that through the antler point i've actually drilled a hole through it as well this is the only thing this is doing is tethering that antler in place so that the guy doesn't lose it obviously and so we'll go ahead and just feed that through the button and through the face of the bag and that's virtually all it's doing it's accenting the bag and holding that antler point so that it doesn't doesn't misplace it [Music] all right the bag is just about done all we've got to do now is a shoulder strap so i opted to kind of come up with a little lace together shoulder strap where we didn't have a buckle for adjustment but we do have a little bit of adjustment i like to leave these straps a little bit of adjustment depending on the individual he might want it higher or lower on his body so this is going to be a next laced type of strap and i think it's fitting for the style of bag that we're building and so you're going to want to go ahead and cut the short side and we'll just go ahead and cut that piece out we are going to line this both these pieces with the same amount or the same kind of leather that we built the bag out of but we're going to cut these out of the inch and a half material that we cut at the very beginning of the video and so we'll go ahead and cut the short side and it's liner then we'll cut the long side as well now i cut the long side 46 inches long and so it's the same width and that both ends are exactly the same as the short side but that's the long strap it is 46 inches long and i found that was a good length even with that little bit of adjustment for most people when they're carrying this bag [Music] now we'll go ahead and just line these um put some glue on there and line these pieces and we'll sew them on the machine and edge them and stick them and do all that stuff and then we'll be ready to mount our hardware in there [Music] [Music] [Music] and so here on now that our straps are done i'm going to go ahead and mark about an inch and a half inch three-quarter would be where our fold marks going to be and i'll mark those just so i fold them both the same amount on each side when we put the snaps in and then we'll mark all our holes and we're going to use number four holes there and you're going to punch those you want to be sure those are straight and aligned because these all have to line up whenever we put these two pieces together with the lace [Music] and so here i found these neat snaps again at ohio travel bag they've got some really neat antique brass type stuff if you're looking for different types of uh hardware and stuff that maybe most of the other people don't carry um but i like those i thought they were really cool and so we'll just punch one hole there number five hole for a copper rivet and that's the way we'll mount these onto the straps [Music] [Music] all right here i'll just take my australian strander and cut a couple little strips of lace out of that same material and that'll be what we use to attach these straps to each other for the shoulder strap you can use the same material here as what we built the rest of the bag out of it doesn't need to be real thick like i said it's probably the same size as what we used for the antler tether on the front of the flap but we'll go ahead and point those i just cut two of them in case i needed an extra one but i like to put a little bit of saddle soap on anything that i'm lacing and so if you'll run that lace through some saddle soap preferably the white saddle soap and um it will just help that lace to kind of run through there a little easier and it makes it lace up a little bit nicer [Music] and now we'll take our other button that we've made and we'll just run each point of the lace through each one of those holes and pull it down tight and then we'll begin x lacing the short side and the long slide of the strap together and that'll complete our shoulder strap [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] all right guys that's the buckhorn briefcase a little bit of a longer video a little bit of a tougher project this is going to be a challenging project if you've never tackled a bag bags are i'm not an expert bag maker i'm not the the world's greatest briefcase maker by any stretch of imagination i really enjoy making these it's just one of those things i don't get a lot of requests for them so we don't do them a lot if you're working towards building a saddle someday or doing some really larger projects or maybe you just really like making bags then something like this is a really good step because it's going to start pulling in a lot of those skills that you've been learning that you've been working on and it'll put them all together in one project and that's what a saddle does you've got every all the skill sets and leather craft involved in that one saddle and so this will begin to kind of get you in that mode a couple things i want to mention on this bag as you saw in the video the way i did my gusset the gusset length that i had cut was way longer than i really needed i folded over one side or one end of it i did a half inch fold over and skived and glued and stitched that down and then i glued that in to fit it mark the other side of the top and then pulled it back off added a half inch and cut it there and then did another fold over and stitch that's the way i would recommend you doing this bag as well or any gussets that you do is to use one of your panels front or middle panel either one and cut you an extra long piece of gusset material the width you want and then kind of roll that a little bit to make sure you got plenty and then take and do it the way i did in the video the reason is because you will ensure that the gusset is the perfect length for the bag that you're making and the project that you're making because even if you built three of these bags that gusset measurement depending on the material differences between those three can change and depending on how tight you're pulling that gusset if you've got a gusset material that's really soft and you're pulling it tighter on one bag than you did on another that gusset length can change so i would suggest doing it the way i did it there that will help ensure that you get it the right length if you get the pattern pack i do have a measurement of the gusset the gusset was 41 inches long from fold to fold so from top to top on both sides all the way around it was 41 inches but i wouldn't trust that whenever you're building your bag because i don't know what material you're using like i said some things could change so i would cut it probably 43 then do your fold over on one side and prep it up and just kind of see and check just to be sure because if you cut it true 41 and you're using a different material it may be short or long depending on what what's going on there so that's just one quick note the other thing is you saw in the video that i hand stitched these d hangers on here i did that because i wasn't really sure where i wanted them i had an idea and it's not that hard to figure out exactly where i wanted them when i put the gusset in but i just preferred to wait till the bag was done since i'm making a pattern for you guys i wanted to be sure that i get them where i want them exactly because the thing i want is when that bag is being carried i want this buckled or this d hanger low enough so that whatever my connection here is and in this bag it's a d and a snap with a rivet holding the snap in place i didn't want any of this hardware scratching the edge of this top flap if you put them too high then this snap will eat a hole in this edge right here of the top flap so i wanted that completely out of the way so i'm when somebody's carrying this bag it's leather on leather here where the bag touches where the strap touches the bag top so this buckle set and her snap set and everything is low enough that it's not chewing on the top of the bag so that's that's one thing to keep in mind now if you're just riveting this to the d it may be easier just to bring this up maybe more comfortable whatever but that's where i'm going to set it with this type of closure you use a snap and a d that's where i'm going to have them but i had to go through all that and hand sew those on so i got them exactly where i wanted them and so if you get the pattern pack it has its placement on where those go i would suggest sewing those on maybe maybe throw a rivet in there would be a good idea onto the gusset panel before you put the gusset in it's much easier to do when everything's flat instead of a built back so that's one thing to keep in mind if you prefer to hand stitch them in it makes a really nice look right there that that's hand stitched if you prefer to do that do it when it's flat it's still a lot easier to do than when the bag is built same thing with the handle the handle of this bag i wasn't exactly sure i had an idea but i wasn't exactly sure where this closure was gonna happen and where the center line of the top roll was gonna be for the handle so we went ahead and waited till the bag was done i was also waiting to see if i was going to do a handle decided to do one but i wanted to be sure and get it right down the center of the top of this bag and so i waited to do that until the bag was done again on the pattern pack it will have its placement on where this goes so that you can just go ahead and sew that on this back panel when you glue the back pocket on or sew it up or whatever you're going to do and that way everything is in place when you build the bag you want the full with trying to hand stitch or trying to you know sew that i sewed this on a machine but had the whole bag built already it was real cumbersome so that's one thing another thing as far as the closure you do not have to use a deer antler it is the buckhorn bag though so i would probably suggest using the antler but if you would prefer not to you could always come in here and stitch like a leather uh tab or medallion here with a tab that hangs down maybe dull and stitch so it's a little bit firmer and that piece of leather can drop down in that hole that would make a nice closure as well we do that a lot on um like notebooks and stuff like that we'll do that same type of closure there and then you don't necessarily need the antler button over here on the strap we did that to accent further the buckhorn stuff that was going on with the bag just as far as its look but this is just x-laced and you do have a little bit of adjustment on this strap um as you can see in the video so you can if the guy wants to adjust it he can adjust it a little bit but it knocks out a piece of hardware to where this strap does not have a bunch of excessive hardware on there i i don't know on bags i prefer a lot of times to not have a lot of metal hardware on them to me it just makes for a nicer piece and it lasts a lot longer and you don't have to worry about fixing buckles that's usually all what always breaks on bags is the little buckles and the hangers and stuff but yeah the closure that that works out really nice you could definitely do away with that if you would rather make more of what we would call a pony express bag or a messenger bag you could definitely opt out of this just when you cut this panel out go ahead and figure up and add if you're gonna build this bag exact i would probably add two inches an inch and three quarter somewhere around there to the end of the main body panel and just bring it down straight so that it comes all the way to the bottom like this one does and if you do that and it's a softer leather you really don't need any type of closure at all because that flap is going to hang down it's not it's going to be soft enough weighted enough and it's going to go all the way to the bottom line of the bag so you're not going to really need any kind of closure you could alter this bag pretty easily and especially if you wanted a single compartment a bag like this but a single instead of a double compartment that would be very simple all you would have to do is figure out your math for the main body piece and you can get this entire bag out of one side of leather if you don't line it so if you don't want to line it you don't have to i did just to give the bag a little bit more body this bag is made from the 1880 herman oak waterproof vegetan chapped leather long name great leather this leather here is completely waterproof you could build it out of any kind of chap leather or anything like that that you want to build it we opted to build this because i wanted to try it herman oak came up with this i don't remember last year maybe sometime but it is a really really nice leather it is a vegetable tan leather and it is completely waterproof this is actually the expedition version that aaron had them do for him which has a little bit more body to it the 1880 is very soft and supple so for jackets or a softer bag or something like that it's perfect for that this stuff's got just a little bit more temper to it and so the bag has a little bit of a harder harder feel to it and that's the main reason why i wanted to try it on this bag was because this bag is going to be out and about it's going to be going into offices and be out out and about this guy's a rancher and stuff and so he's going to have it in some situations where it might get wet and stuff so i figure it's a good good way to try it here water doesn't hurt leather traditionally you usually um so i don't really worry about it may stain it but it just gives it a little bit more character but it'll be interesting to see what this bag looks like after a couple of years but if you're interested in trying the 1880 leather you can call maker's leather supply and talk to doc or aaron up there they do carry this this color of this bag is the chestnut expedition is what i built this bag out of so if you call them and you love this color and you want to make this exact same bag ask for the expedition expedition 1880 chestnut leather um or somewhere around there talk to doc he'll get you figured out he knows more about it than i did but great leather i really liked it and i like the way the bag turned out i'm gonna get off here i really appreciate y'all watching the video i hope you'll give this bag a try even if you just have a bag design you want to do you saw what i did in the video i was creating patterns as i went roughly pretty much so you can watch that and kind of see how i approached it and you can design your own patterns as well as far as putting the bag together to finish out the size and design that you want i appreciate you guys be sure and subscribe to the channel and we'll see in the next project video

Channel: Don Gonzales

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Keywords: leatherwork, leathercraft, leather work, leather craft, tooling leather, stamping leather, leather stamping, painting leather, working with leather, how to tool leather, dying leather, how to dye leather, leather working tutorials, carving leather, floral carving, leather, how to carve leather, leather carving, leather working project, briefcase, leather briefcase, custom leather, leather bag, leather man bag, leather satchel, bag making, making a briefcase, soft briefcase

Id: 1UQ-LKDF0dc

Length: 108min 44sec (6524 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 01 2021