The Frankenstein Wallet - How It’s Made - Leather Craft

In this leather craft video, I originally started out with the idea of making a leather long wallet using simple construction and minimal leather pieces, but the more I thought about it, the idea seemed a little boring. I then had the idea of creating the outer panel from multiple pieces of leather that would fit together kind of like a jig-saw puzzle. This would require me to glue the individual pieces of leather edge-to-edge to form one complete outer panel. To secure each seam, I would need to run a loop stitch or cross stitch, this is where the theme for the Frankenstein wallet was born. The look of the stitching reminded me of the stitching that is found on Dr. Frankenstein’s monster’s forehead. Because I was already planning on using leather pieces of different colors, I thought I might as well use different color threads also. The green, orange, and white colored thread seemed like a good combo for a wallet design that was already a little “out there”. The inside of the wallet is lined with thin vegetable tanned leather to help hide and secure the backside of all the individual outer panel pieces. Although this wallet is more of a leather art-piece, it is still very functional as a daily use wallet. The inside has four individual card slots and two long slots for cash/checks etc. and the wallet is held in the closed position using antique brass snaps. I hope you find this strange leather craft project as interesting as I did.


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TOOLS & MATERIALS:
Leathers:
- Natural Vegetable Tanned Leathers
- Panel pieces 2.2 mm
- Liner 1mm
- Chrome Tan Premium Harvest Wheat 2.2mm
- Chrome Tan Premium Harvest English Tan 2.2mm
- America English Manor 2.2mm
- Premium Harvest Black 2.2mm

Patterns/Marking
- Plywood patterns
- Paper patterns
- Steel cork backed rulers
- Scratch Awl (for marking)
- Ink Pen (for marking)
- Blue painters tape (for holding paper patterns to leather)

Cutting:
- Kobalt brand box cutter
- X-Acto knife
- Steel quarter round punch (for rounding corners)
- Steel hole punches (for rivets and snaps)
- Weaver #0 & #1 edge bevelers
- Nail pullers (for clipping off rivets)
- Barry King #5 French skiver
- Craftool snips (for cutting thread)
- Square shape dye cutter (used with arbor press)
- Westcott brand rotary cutter

Gluing / Sanding
- Weldwood Contact Cement (for glueing outer panel pieces and liner)
- EcoWeld Contact Adhesive (for gluing wallet interior)
- Plastic bottle (for applying Ecoweld)
- Cotton swabs (for applying glue)
- Craftool Detail Rougher
- 1200 grit sandpaper (for sanding edges)
- Paper Towels

Machines:
- New Tech brand bell skiving machine
- 1 Ton arbor press
- Cast iron press (for setting snaps)

Stitching:
- KSBlade Punch diamond pricking irons, 4mm
- 6mm steel pricking irons
- 3” (75mm) Needles
- Lighter
- 0.8mm Ritza Tiger Thread, Orange, Green & White
- Wooden stitching pony

Hammers:
- 1.5lb Barry King tapered maul (for punching holes)
- C.S. Osborne & Co Leather Working Hammer (For tamping down stitches and glue)
- Ball peen hammer (for peening rivets)
- Anvil (for peening rivets)

Hardware
- #14 Copper rivets and burrs (with #14 setter & peening tool set)
- Line 20 antique brass snaps

Finish:
- Tokonole (for edge burnishing)
- Small needle bottle (for applying Tokonole)
- Round wooden slicker (for edge burnishing)