4 months into the craft, made some big wallets!

@GNTLMN Julian @Fadi

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Behold the Seigel leather test..

W&G are vegtan for sure.

The Shell Cordovaned finished Calf is chrome tan, just check the rml website. And Acadia is chrome tanned for sure but i have never had a problem burnishing an Acadia leather before.

My advice is glue a few pieces of whichever leathers you used, no need for stitching, and try to burnish them to see if you like how it comes out.

My personal process is a light coat of tokonole, then burnish with a wood slicker, then a second coat with a wooden brunisher. Then a third coat and burnish with a canvas, and I finish with a fourth coat and the canvas again. And all my burnishing is done by hand. I have both a dremmel and a bench drill, and i stopped using them aged ago. I can get better results with hand burnishing. It requires more effort and patience, but the results are way better. At least for me :)

Yeah, definetly some improvement over your earlier work. The stitching is starting to look really good. Like you said, some corner problems, but that will get fixed with more work and experience, i would not worry about it much :)

/I know lots of people say chrome tans are not burnish-able, but i found out that if you use Tokonole, it is doable. I do it lots time. What kind of chrome tans are these? anything famous?

I am no great expert but I think the progress from your earlier photos is noticeable.

Stitching in the line looks neat and good but corners need some work, especially noticeable on the inside of the wallet. Since you are using contrasting colors it makes it even more visible.

One more tip I can give at this moment is to look into burnishing your edges. I do not know if the leather is vegetable tanned or chrome tanned and how easy that would be for the leather you used.