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De Havilland bag completed

Great project. Lots of fun mingled with moments of frustration. Turning the bag right side out was super satisfying!

I don't know if I want to ever work again with Sedgwick English Bridle leather. What a pain!

Cutting, skiving and creasing are just a bugger. I hope it wears like iron though. I'm looking forward to working with shrunken calf again. It seems like a great option for stuff you want to wear well and look great.

7 comments

7 Comments

James

Jul 06, 2022

That looks so good! From start to finish, how many hours do you think you'd put into making it?

ddunn68

Dec 11, 2022

Replying to

I think I had about 30-35 hours into making it.

Leathercraft Masterclass

Jul 03, 2022

Fantastic work David, you've created an incredible bag! Such detail. I hope it brings you pleasure on your travels for many years to come.

james.hoang2010

Jul 01, 2022

Beautiful bag Dunn, I am thinking to make it with some greyish shrunken calf as well. Perhaps you can share more with us more details, such as :

- Who is the maker of exterior shrunken calf?

- What is you used for interior lining?

- The inconvenience you had with Sedgwick English Bridle or other difficulties you experienced when making it?

Maybe @Phillips can shed some light on the matter and how to avoid it. I am also wondering if shrunken calf is the right leather for this kind of bag which requires an ability to resist frictions during traveling.

Hope I can learn a thing or two from you before making mine.

ddunn68

Dec 11, 2022

Replying to

Hi James,

Sorry for the long delay in responding to your questions. I'm guessing you've already started (or maybe even finished) your bag. But just in case, here are some answers.

1) Perlinger is the tannery for the Alpine Shrunken Calf

2) For the lining, I used the stuff Phil had in the course supplies. It was listed on buyleatheronline.com. I don't love it, but it probably does clean up pretty well. Not great quality, it seemed to me.

3) Sedgwick English Bridle has a thick and hard wax coating on it. It made it very difficult to heat crease and to foil stamp...especially since I tried to do it "by hand". Sedgwick is also very very dense and harder to cut, skive and work with. So making the handles and all the piping was a bit of a chore too. I hope it will wear like iron, but I don't know because I have no experience with how it wears over time. It seems to me like it's pretty bombproof.

In the end, it all turned out very lovely and should be a bag that will last a very long time.

Fadi

Jun 30, 2022

Hello,

Next time, try to make your images smaller and to embed them to that we can see them directly in your feed (as opposed to having to click on each individual picture and have it open in a separate tab or window).

And great job on the bag! Love the choice of interior lining.