Hi Phil , Hello eveyone: This is my brushing machine ( in italian we says : "Spazzolatrice" made in Florence by Saturn ) This machine it's also equipped with brushes dug out to facilitate processing (in which I use to make prototypes or produce bags with colored borders for a famous Florentine house .... For the my opinion, and I can honestly tell you that to speed up the drying time I use a tannery chemical accelerator inside the color and then in the oven to dry. There are many techniques, and each house has its own. For me, waiting 20 minutes for each single piece that makes up the bag means wasting a lot of time and not delivering on time. I know, my work is different from yours, also for the times, I don't have to deliver a single bag, usually there are 20 pieces in 4 days and often there are only 3, with a prototype in the middle. With experience I have learned to use time and the best solutions on the market for companies, to help my work and satisfy the customer who commissions me his production or sampling. First, the ORLIS S transparent clinging base by Kenda Farben, then the Fenice company color with accelerator when I use the electronic edge dyer, because their color is very liquid and with a long drying time, created to make all edge dyeing machines flow and not block , but I can't wait or apply 5 coats of color, 3 at the most because the purchasing department tells me that it costs too much and therefore the bag goes out of budget. I also use Uniters, for Mockup samples , with higher cost, they have a good result , and for me it is the best brand , if you want to create a prototype or a customized bag for a customer , or you are in a leather shop like moynat , and if you are alone and have time with the patience of a cloistered friar ! The color has a thick consistency and 3 coats are enough to have a "pleasant" effect, but as I learned, the last important step is cooking, because the color must stabilize and lock in a strong lasting way at the edges and must not slip off "like spaghetti" as happens in certain bags,. My working life is more complicated because after delivery, a sample of the bags is chosen, analysed, raped, mistreated, and with various trials and tests it is established whether the product I created complies with company standards. Yeaaaaah ! it's beautiful to be craftsmen! ;)

Hello, this is AN EXAMPLE for the basic construction of the gusset of Valextra bags. There are various ways to perform. Basic rule for Italian leather pattern makers ...... "what you add then you have to remove" to bring back the shapes and sizes

Hi Angelo ... look this

Buongiorno Angelo , come butta ?

@Leathercraft Masterclass ... Bingo ! I looked and found a company that produces and sells tools and materials for shoemakers. I forgot the brass car, called Velox, and clicks on accessories, then ask for info. If You can't buy it, send me a msg that I ll send you one of my reserves, they're old but they work fine. Remember if you use the soft steel blades, you'll have to sharpen with the curtain because every good skin craftsman creates the tilt of the blade of his little trinkets. The blade that leads you not to rely as the others, you must use a iron lime http://www.pidigi.it/ https://youtu.be/JKePsnxfKnA Look at the 0.58 second https://youtu.be/HmxPvDBxrHw

I use this "trincetto", an ancient tool designed for shoes makers, now also used by those who create bags and small leather goods. My grandfather, a shoesmaker used this and used soft steel band blades, as you can see in the picture. Because working with shoes and all the roundness they present, the blade must bend without breaking. I assure you it is a great thing to have a blade that curves and cuts you perfectly roundness ..... It is another world and the cut becomes easy and pleasant, and you do not sweat blood when you work in net after the gross. https://shoetechnik.com/soft-steel-blade-281-8016.html?tag=blades

Hi Philip good morning, it is true my work is very gratifying, sometimes very strange, because my pupils are like Xmen and I am Charls Xavier, of leather goods . My sweets xmen have taught me to love the human side in everything and I teach them to create leather objects and a trade, because many of them can work in leather goods and here in Florence and in the province as we know, we are full of laboratories and companies in the fashion world. Rightly as you said, here in addition to leather goods, both eat well and drink .. better :). I thank you from now, because you have been able to give a masculine touch of quality to your creations to your videos and with knowledge communicate the tricks and secrets of an artisanal work that here is breaking down to give place to machines and industrial productions. Perhaps I am one of the few white flies left here in Scandicci, which still lives and loves to smell the skin and get its hands dirty with glue and color, still doing everything by hand, and so I teach my boys, love for the creation Mauro

Hi , you’re welcome

A big pleasure for me ... GRAZIE !