I have a big collection of tiny leather pieces, rescued pieces of awesome hardware and strange but beautiful colour accidents when dying saddles that I have never completed so I figured why not start with some scraps and make them into something awesome and complete!
Figured you all might want to join in too!
To get myself into it I figure I will choose an accent leather from my scrap box and use it on the cantle of a nice saddle not super adventurous yet but good to get the brain thinking!
Here are some of the possible scraps I can pick from Shout out if you see something you think would work well!
Thanks these are mainly the snake skin scraps I also have a plain coloured leather scrap bag and larger scraps are amongst my normal skins in my big tub .. I should be posting a lot in this thread!
I found these in the scrap bin at leffler leather in the city I will see if my mother wants to come into the city with me again this week so I can hunt out some more , the metallics and full hides have also come from there but there are normally a few hides of any particular colour so are easier for me to get. I am always happy to pick up leather for people if they are interested or even go halves in hides. I find it best to see and feel the leather in person before I buy it to see if I think it will work well for model use so I would happily offer my services to others so they can have someone check it before they buy
I would soo love to see and feel the leather before I buy it, but unfortunately we have no leather shops near us. Some of the online stores do send sample pieces though. Thank you for your offer. You are from Australia, right? I am afraid the shipping costs would be very high. But if you have enough left of the metallic pink/purple leather for just the seat and knee rolls for one saddle, I would happily buy or trade it. :-)
Post by Galxey Sparrow on Feb 8, 2015 10:19:04 GMT
yup australia of course i can cut off a small easy to post piece for you ^.^ My mother always suggests that I should sell off say half a skin in small pieces to others to offset the cost of buying a whole brightly coloured skin as I will likely never be able to use the whole skin myself! then I could afford to get a larger variety of colours but I have no idea if people would be interested in that?
That would be great! I would be very interested. And I also liked the metallic blue you had. It can be really expensive to buy whole hides. I'll send you a PM. :-)