steveb leatherworks: the blather

This is the kind of consistent feedback you want to get from your customers… Roger had called me once or twice over the past few years – wanted to see what I was doing, what the cost of different stuff was, etc. Always a nice guy, l i enjoyed talking with him. I hear from […]

Check out this beauty! As always, you can get immediate gratification by ordering goods from my ETSY Store.

This is my own style of leather work. I don’t like to add “superfluous decorative items” to my work. Generally, I  keep it simple. But this is my attempt at getting fancy…                

If you bought one of my wallets and wore it hard everyday for 5 years, what would it look like? Well, this is what Jon’s looks like. Pretty damn good He sent this to me along with an order for a guitar strap. Thanks Jon!!

So to continue on with the Proto-Manta plug belt saga.. I wanted to talk about color a bit. Black is the turd in the punchbowl when it comes to leathercraft. There isn’t a skilled leather crafter alive that likes to work in black. Black sucks – it soaks up detail like the dickens. Black, unless […]

I love the sound of  “proto-manta-belt”, feels like I could have a ray gun hanging from it, and not be out of place.  Well I don’t know that I’ll be slinging a ray gun any time soon, but i can say this – creating a good looking plug inlay with a skin like Manta ray […]

I made a wallet (nice images Walter, geez!) for Walter (owner of Kickstart cycles and founder of the Gypsy Run) to auction off , the proceeds of which are to help pay for the run….  I don’t support a lot of events, but I dig Walter and I dig the Gypsy Run. I can’t  support […]

People say – where have you been, what have you been doing?   To which I respond – I’ve been busy here, hey! For example – this new stinker just got bagged and tagged and is ready for consumption – and it was no mean feat getting that accomplished, it fought me! This is a 3 […]

Check my store on ETSY to see whats new and available – If you need/want custom – let me know.

My customers are rulers! Andy & Liz in AK have been steadfast customers of steveb leatherworks for some years now.  I always look forward to their “ask’s” and Andy’s latest request was not different – One of your regular customers from AK wondering if you are/considering making any more of the travel wallets pictured in […]

For those times when you are planning on being on the bike for the day – the belt bag rules. . As always – check my store on ETSY to see whats new and available – If you need/want custom – let me know.

For those times when you are planning on being on the bike for the day – the belt bag rules. It can be unclipped from your belt easily if you want to lighten up or dig around in it – and then tied up tight with a leather thong accessorized with a handmade bead and […]

So I was thinking that I needed to bring something fresh to the forefront. I wasn’t sure what that something was, but I knew it needed to be done and it needed to be big. So one day, after I solved our Country’s fiscal crisis, cured cancer and put the environmental issues plaguing the planet […]

Not a tremendously complicated piece, Val’s cuff didnt take a particularly long time to make, and wasnt much of a technical challenge for me… but like every cusom made piece, it took a bit of thought, clarity on what my customer wanted and a bit of care…in design and in production. Val wanted a cuff […]

Made a new sheath for my treasured DaveyD blade. I’ve been making alot of cases lately and wanted to use some new materials – this is one of the experiments and i think it came out sweet. Love the red stitching and pebbled leather. If you have a fixed blade that is begging for a […]

Brant sent me a little bag made from this unusual skin called Capybara to make a pocket wallet from. It just made it size wise and was a pain in the ass to work with – very thin and fragile material – but with a very cool look and feel. In the end, after some […]

Eddie inspired this belt case design – it holds a mini Maglite and a Leatherman. We were in Sturgis in 2008 and on more than one occasion he had the tool needed to take on the job at hand, pulling it from a similar sheath on his belt. I asked if I could cop the […]

hey now — well I was finally able to deliver on my promsie to improve the hardware on my Pocket Wallets. I have teamed up with Duckbill Designs, maker of the duckbill money clip seen here, to up the level of the utility, durability and functionality of my Pocket Wallets. The new money clip is […]

Plain and simple – this neat little Benchmade fixed blade needed a special sheath for daily carry. Cool Burgundy color, wet moulded and red thread all add up to something different!

Clean, simple, beauty of a color, great brass chain and hot shit fob all add up to a sweet package for the new owner of the Arrowhead Fin.

So – I had a cool request from one of our serviceman currently overseas, a fine gentleman by the name of John. He had an idea for a wallet that originally was borderline not doable, at least by me. We went back and forth a bit and finally settled on this idea… I developed the art, carved it […]