I've been curious how efficient of a maker I am compared to everyone else's crafting time for for certain items. Lets say a bi-fold wallet (since that is what I make most of for now:)
6 card slots, bill slot, all fully lined (12 layers of leather) and 3 coats of edge paint. Everything hand cut and saddle stitched. Used to take me 8-10 hours when I first started the craft two years ago, now it takes me about 6 hours of labor, not including drying time between edge paint coats.
How about you?
Yeah, 8 hours for such a wallet is extremely good. bravo!
8 to 10 hours is very good. When I was at "school" learning leathercraft, the teacher told us we had to make a wallet quite like yours in 12 hours because we were beginners, but in factories, we would be asked to make it in 8 hours to be efficient. So bravo! For the moment I'm very slow with handstitch and only doing bags, so it takes me about two weeks to entirely complete it with sessions on the evenings after work or the weekends.
Yeah, 8-10 hours for a completely hand crafted and hand stitched bifold wallet is not slow at all
I almost only make large bags/briefcase. I timed how look it took to make a briefcase like this and the result was 41 hours divided between 53 sessions.
This is my hobby so time consumption is not a factor I need to worry about. That being said I always try to optimise the process
Just finished stitching up this piece. Still have yet to finished the edges and polish.
* Tahiti glazed American alligator
* Black Chevre Sully
* Stone Chevre "fat nat"
Show us a pic man. But i would estimate that for me, it would still take around 8 to 10 hours. I burnish instead of edge coat and i take my sweet time in burnishing.