As Philip always provides us with some new and cool tools he's using, I'd like to start a thread to give back our own little secrets 😉
Let me start with corner cutting.
I use woodworking gouges in different sizes to get easy rounded corners on my products.
They're quite cheap, cheaper than special leather corner irons, and they hold sharp for decades.
Pay attention that you get the short ones for a better control.
@Emanuel | Minga Made Haha! awesome idea for a post Emanuel 😄
All right, now I'll share my my most used tool for small batch making with you!
It's this kind type of a tool, where I found myself to be so smart to transfer it to leatherwork 😎
are you ready? 😂
Corner cutting was one of my most time consuming steps, since I used washers to cut around for about a year.
So I did a deep research for an easy and productive way.
What I found was the "Warrior corner paper cutter"!
Nice and easy machine with different corner radius blades. Cheap, well build and perfectly usable for batch production of leather goods.
Go and grab it!
Great idea for a participative, living thread. Thanks for starting it.
And here's directly a new tool I use for about 2 weeks, and I love it!
It's a pen style brush with a steel tip. Also available with brass tip, but I use the steel one.
I think it's intended to be used to clean rusty pieces, but I use it to ruff leather before glueing at areas where it's difficult to handle with the normal leather rougher.
It was about 7€ so it's a no brainer.