This tutorial covers the process of making classic horizontal card holder with outer slots made out of single piece of leather. It is an intermediate build that requires some hand-skiving and edge-folding. You can make this project without the folded edges by trimming off the fold allowance.
Leather selection
- 0.8mm / 2oz Alran Sully – 28cm x 22cm
Tool Inventory
This is the complete list of tools and materials used for this tutorial. You can successfully complete this build without many of them, but you may achieve slightly different result. The details such as dimensions or brands of my equipment are mentioned mostly as an inspiration.
- Self-healing cutting matt 60 x 90cm (Vantage)
- Steel ruler 50cm
- Scratch awl
- Head knife 125mm (Blanchard)
- Japanese skiving knife
- Contact glue (Intercom Ecostick 1816B)
- Glue spreader
- Roller
- Hole punch 5mm
- Leather maul
- Punching block 20 x 30cm (Craft Japan)
- L’indispensable knife (Blanchard)
- Heat press
- Sanding block
- Sand paper – 200, 400 and 600 grit (Siawat)
- Edge creaser
- Edge paint (Uniters)
- Magic sponge
- Compass 165mm (Blanchard)
- High-speed steel paring knife (Blanchard)
- Saddler’s Hammer #4 (Blanchard)
- Set of 3.38mm pricking irons – 2 and 10 prong (Blanchard)
- Harness needles #4 (John James)
- Linen thread 0.45mm (Meisi Superfine)
- Stitching awl
- Stitching clam
- Thread scissors
- Edge clamps (pliers)