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Emanuel | Minga Made
Jan 10, 2020
In Share Your Projects
Here's my latest custom made bag project. A bucket bag with alle brass hardware and selfmade Tassels. Turned out to be a beauty. Handstitched and made out of vegetable tanned Walpier natural leather. About 2mm thick. Enjoy 😉
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Emanuel | Minga Made
Dec 18, 2019
In Leather Tools
As Philip always provides us with some new and cool tools he's using, I'd like to start a thread to give back our own little secrets 😉 Let me start with corner cutting. I use woodworking gouges in different sizes to get easy rounded corners on my products. They're quite cheap, cheaper than special leather corner irons, and they hold sharp for decades. Pay attention that you get the short ones for a better control.
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Emanuel | Minga Made
Dec 09, 2019
In Say Hello Before Posting
I'm very pleased to be part of your little community of leather craft enthusiasts. My name is Emanuel and I run a small side business, producing mainly small leather goods from wallets to bags, and lately more and more custom orders. I started leather crafting about 2 years ago, with a cheapo chinese starting kit from Amazon and a sheet of very cheap leather sold for 7€/kg :D I had in mind to build me a card wallet with dimensions i couldn't find on the market. Well, short story from this point, there was a deep love to the material and the crafting by hand. It ended in watching nearly every diy leather video on YouTube, reading books and improving my leatherwork. I hope to improve my skills further, also with your experience and I'd like to give something back to the leather community. Don't know if it's allowed to post links here, but you might find some my work on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/minga.made/ Hope to read you soon! Emanuel
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