Leather & Birch Wall Streets

[PaulD]

First leather pen in a while and the first leather Wall Street. The spalted birch is from my back yard.

 

[rjwolfe3]

very nice!

 

[PaulD]

Thanks Rob. That stacked leather is hard to turn evenly, this one came out real well. I added some rosewood stain to this particular leather pen to give it some added richness.

 

[Marc]

Thanks for mentioning the stain - I was struggling with believing it was leather at all, but did not know what it could be.

Beautiful work and a nice back yard find for the spalted timber.

 

[Jgrden]

Wait wait wait Leather ?????? How in the heck did you do that???? Wrap it?? How'd you glue it???? Did you cast it???

Confused and impressed in Conroe, Texas,
John

 

[Jgrden]

Stacked ! Well okay, but how the heck did you turn it, with a razor blade?

 

[PaulD]

I start with strips of tanned leather. Stack them and glue them with leather glue. Clamp overnight and then trim the leather to the size of a regular blank and then drill, brass insert and turn using standard woodturning tools. I have used woodhardener on some of my leather pens, but I don't think I did so on this particular one. Here are some photos of other leather pens and the steps I described. There is a cigar and CEO leather pen in the photos. I think I added a maple stain to these two to darken them.

 

[johnnycnc]

Paul, that leather is very nice, you did well!

 

[Jgrden]

That just shows to go you, that I was doing it all wrong.