steveb leatherworks: the blather

Yea Yea, enough rantin’ and ravin’ about the grave injustices of the world I say, back to Leather!!

So, I dont make alot of Squire wallets. Seems most folks want the Fin or the Super Squire. The poor Squire is kind of the neglected kid in the steveb leatherwork fam damily.  For this unit I was asked to go to town  and so..i mixed up the interior pretty nicely, found a tasty western font to use, applied some judicious flamage and we were off to the races. I used a stainless chain mail chain with a fancy nautical pelican hook spring snap for this cool unit.

I used a stamp I don’t use too often, a “motorcycle chain” border stamp and created an impossible to reproduce antique look for the letterforms, using some antiquing, atom wax and neatlac. This work gave the wallet a really old look right off the bat, all through using finishes. A few copper rivets turn this into a work of wearable  piece of art. I bet this piece has aged into a beauty.