Making an Overly Complicated Leather Keychain

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Making an Overly Complicated Leather Keychain
Sometimes it's really nice to make an upscale version of a simple leather craft item. When we try out new techniques, we like to do it on smaller leather items like keychains and key fobs - it allows us to try out new things and assess the results a lot more quickly than on larger projects!
This leather keychain is a bit more complicated than it needs to be. We made this leather keychain with vegetable tanned leather, and while you could absolutely just cut the main piece and install the snap without any stitching we wanted to go a bit further. On our leather keychain we cut a smaller structure piece and sandwiched it between the exterior and liner of the leather keychain. We molded the leather to provide some really cool dimension, then we used a saddle stitch to put it all together.
We used our own custom trim on this piece, with a plated brass button concho and our signature split rings - however any button or concho works well with maybe a nice solid brass split ring from japan :)

[@JoseFlores-ck7hg]

Very nice, I like it a lot, cannot beat a gift made by hand, friendship gift, Christmas gift, Birthday gift, that little key Fob is a gift for a lifetime

[@Bootbitch]

Waiting for the complicated part. Lol 😆 nice work

[@konturgestalter]

I just love your videos.. the artistic and the quality of production conveys your excellence in craft. Thank you.....

[@ianmissenden3301]

Hello Folks. Very impressive result. Would you mind advising me where I might be able to organise some signature conchos like you have and the split rings as well. Many thanks Ian. PS I do enjoy watching you videos.

[@ahmedyoniss6379]

Very good work your fan from Egypt

[@andreatthatsme]

Thank you for the tutorial. This is really cool. 🤗😊😉

[@ahmadissa8607]

Like it very nice. Thank you fir the effort

[@Jssodk83939]

bravo

[@pwman]

What a cool keychain!!!

[@bngr_bngr]

I use a carabiner with a safety lock for keys. A leather covered carabiner would be nice.

[@felipemartins455]

Please, can you tell me where/how did you get the custom metal rings and snaos? Thank you so much!

[@maryfrederickson9400]

Spectacular!

[@tabeajo6015]

Would be so nice to see more patterns (for instance simple bags) in your shop!

[@enzosantomarco9974]

Very good work 👏

[@AntonioGonzalez-wc4yf]

Muy buen trabajo . Saludos desde chihuahua mx

[@groseillegrowa3659]

Very nice ...

[@VasileVBags]

Super!!!👍

[@alexanders.montes7131]

Beautiful work!

[@stinkycheese7383]

Dude that is so amazing omg so beautiful!!!

[@rideallegretto1933]

Thanks for the amazing video! I subbed👍🏼

[@jeffreyjoseph1477]

Cool key chain.... Who made your Concho?

[@davidwilliams3643]

I'm interested in that too. Please share or PM... thanks

[@jeffreyjoseph1477]

@@davidwilliams3643 Still waiting a reply

[@Corter]

our caster has asked us not to share their contact info for the time being - sorry!

[@jeffreyjoseph1477]

@@Corter Thanks for the reply

[@J8n3eyr3]

"Overly complicated" in the title? Yeah. I have to watch that.

[@pilesofpoodles4954]

Are you pointing those stitch prongs slightly inward instead of straight up and down?

[@tcoffin014]

Of course that's how you sharpen pencils lol

[@longislanddiy6315]

Are you able to share where you get the custom ring and button snaps?

[@davidwilliams3643]

I'm curious too. Thanks

[@MobyBrickFlicks]

May i ask what size needles you use fine sir? Is it really the 18guage or is that a suitable replacement? I only ask because i have the same hole punches but my needles dont go through as effortlessly

[@Justasyou]

What adhesive/glue do you use for the leather?

[@anacortes2777]

LEO Y A i D E E.😁😁

[@thewizdad]

@corterleather I am trying to find a video of yours, in that you make your logo keychain using a leather embossing press and a clicker die. Can yiu help me?

[@chrisindublin80]

Another cool work. Did You polished your chisel tools? I just got the same but they have black colour.

[@Corter]

ours came polished, but I believe they recently changed them to black because the coating is more durable than the polished!

[@LovkynaPeral]

Perfection 👌👍 i did make Leather Pen Case (not profesional but i like it, how my turn out. YOUR STUFF ARE AMAZIG

[@Corter]

I'm sure it came out great, so happy to hear! And thank you :)

[@LovkynaPeral]

@@Corter yes for my first Time making that Leather Case i was pretty i love. And Videos like Yours help People like me to see, how to do this Perfection. Thank you for sharing 🙋‍♀️

[@jecottrelltube]

Get well soon Bone Folder!

[@anacortes2777]

LEO Y A i D E E.😀😀

[@user-Abdullatif.1969]

Very good , how much it cost me in dollar.

[@daniellloret4033]

Hi, what kind and size of thread you use?

[@heyimamaker]

Looks awesome! what did you rub on the edge?

[@Corter]

That's Gum Tragacanth but water also works well!

[@heyimamaker]

@@Corter thanks!

[@actually4660]

9:03 what's that machine called? Wow I wish I could make it. Love from Arunachal Pradesh.🥰🥰🥰

[@Skylon2311]

rivet press

[@actually4660]

@@Skylon2311 thanks man😊

[@Skylon2311]

Hard Fiber your welcome

[@moonlalight]

I'm still waiting for your doing Hermes bag

[@Corter]

we're working logistics currently, been a goal since before we started our channel :)

[@ioanabirta9792]

I love you

[@robynr675]

Do you sell what you make?

[@Corter]

yep! That's how we've made a living for over 10 years :)

[@robynr675]

Corter Leather Nice! How do i buy some of your products please? I really love them

[@robynr675]

Never mind. I found it . Thanks 😊

[@pilesofpoodles4954]

That's probably the most beautiful piece I've seen you make. The texture on your custom snap is air tight. Pretty flawless all around.. You don't seem like a regular fellow.. They typically have poor taste. What happened to you to make you a freak..? Something anti-normie brewing in there..

[@timothypadilla8910]

Southern Gent The regular fellow your addressing is actually a regular lady.

[@pilesofpoodles4954]

Timothy Padilla It's a dude. In a few of the videos he will cut to his lady crafter when she is sewing or doing certain builds.. But most of the time it's him.

[@timothypadilla8910]

@@pilesofpoodles4954 Ha I've always thought those were male hands but only ever seen a lady. 😂😂

[@Corter]

we're a two person team - guy and gal - both spend time in front and behind the camera depending on who came up with the project for the week :)

[@pilesofpoodles4954]

Corter Leather But men typically don't have such a pristine sense of taste.. The craft is air tight, but the creative vision is the real magic. No regular hard leg could execute the brand so flawlessly. Haven't seen so much as a pinky toe out of line.. and I'm damn jealous :)

[@martinkollar7651]

I hope you DO understand i watch this at 1 AM so the hammer part is not really apriciated. XD

[@JamesStreetStation]

Overly complicated? Meh....maybe, but KICKIN end result. I gave up tracing patterns onto leather in favor of using my laser to very lightly tattoo it onto the leather (if the project is small enough to fit in the bed of my Glowforge). I still prefer to hand cut over laser cutting (too much char and it stinks), but I don't mind letting a machine trace the pattern for me. Cricut Maker is good for that too.

[@Corter]

that's an interesting method! I looked into a laser cutter a looooong time ago, back when even the reps had no idea if using one on leather was possible - I often think it'd be real great to have for sampling these days, but just haven't gotten around to doing the research on the modern ones. Last time I looked into them they cost as much as a new car and required professionally installed venting with holes drilled through exterior walls 😂

[@jakub8819]

First

[@katie4623]

Don't own a pencil sharpener?

[@Corter]

can't get the right shape to hug the edge of the leather with a pencil sharpener so we do it with a knife, but would 100% be open to using a sharpener should you happen to be a pencil sharpener engineer and can build us one that makes the right lead profile