Plenty of wallets around here get glued up and run through a machine. A long wallet sewn entirely by hand stands out the moment you look at it, and this one from Logan Short is just that, with the whole perimeter saddle-stitched after holes were punched with multi-prong chisels and a mallet along a line marked by wing dividers.
The build is a bifold with card slots, bill sleeves and a central zippered compartment. The outer shell is 2-2.5 oz Wickett and Craig oil Latigo in Medium Brown, and the interior is 2.5-3 oz MPG Nilo in burgundy. Vinymo MBT thread in size 8 runs along the perimeter and dividers. The metal zipper sits behind a cut window in the burgundy panel, held with adhesive tape, pricked and then sewn on a wooden stitching pony. Edges are beveled, burnished with a wooden slicker and finished with edge paint from an applicator pen, while the border gets edge stain from an empty acrylic marker.
The pattern is a slightly modified template purchased from the Little King Goods website, and the maker credits that designer as the main inspiration to pick up leathercraft in the first place. How the template was changed is not described anywhere, which leaves an open question for anyone hoping to follow along.
The maker is upfront that a couple of months of learning ate a lot of money in mess-ups, and the current Craftool irons have fewer prongs, so a larger Sinabroks set was ordered to work faster and look nicer. Setting up lights and recording while working by hand stretches out every build as well. Even with those costs, the finished piece looks tidy and well planned.
Project by Logan Short. Watch it on their YouTube channel: