How to make a leather wallet with secret compartment
Make a Leather Wallet With Secret Compartment
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Draw your pattern, mine look like this, it has 4 part with total of 6 part (2 are similar), send your email to get this pattern
Printed on a paper and cut it with your xacto knife or a scissor
Gather your supplies
Trace the pattern with your prn on to your vegetable tan leather, remember to used as efficient as you can
Cut the traced pattern with your knife
Smooths the edges with your scissor as needed
Gather your cutted leather so you don't missed any part
On the biggest part of the leather draw a line that mark where later it should be fold
With your stitching groover skive the leather so it can be folded easily
It should be like this
Take the small part and alligned them together and sew on the mark previosly made and cut the excess leather
Glued them to the biggest part of the leather, do this on both side
Pound them with your hammer till it stick together, do this on both side
On the line that we made before spread a glue about 1cm wide across the line and then fold the leather and again pound the with your hammer untill it sticks together
On the middle side, mark a line about 3mm from the edges (on both side) with your pen
Use a stitching wheel to mark your stitches
It will look like this, i used 5mm gap in the wheels
Using a stitching hole plier punch the hole on each mark, carefull to punch the hole within the line
It should be like this
Start stitching...
It will look like this
Do the same method on the upper side, it should be like this
And then do the same method on the flap we made before
Like so
It should be like this
Start stitching..
It should be like this
Glued the secret compartment under the flaps ( but the left and right side only) and then glue the front side of the wallet
Should be like this
Hold until the glue dried
Using the same method on step 18 to mark the stitching hole and then start to stitch on both side
It should be like this
There you go..
Here is the wallet with a couples of card
Here you can see the wallet is empty
But wait.. There is 2000 rupiahs on the secret compartment.. Now you can buy a motorcycle with that money.. Enjoy...!!
- 1.0 Ruler
- 1.0 Exacto Knife
- 1.0 Latex base glue
- 1.0 Leather groover
- 1.0 Stitching wheels
- 1.0 Hammer
- 1.0 Scissors
- 2.0 Stitching needle
- 1.0 Pen
- 2.0m Ramie thread
- 1.0m Stitching hole plier
- 1.0m Wax
- 3.0ft 3-4 oz vegetable tan leather