DCBE 2016, Leather work

Doing leather work is fun, it is fairly easy if you have sharp tools and do it the correct way. I guess it is kind of like woodworking in that respect. Like woodwork it can be done quickly, but if you want it to look perfect it will also take time. Brian has bought all those small special tools for working leather such as an "edge nicer", a belt cutter, an edge polisher and lots more.

We made a set of templates for the various parts and I got started on my leather work for my chair.

Alex and Brian are making more chair parts, because they also want to make a chair in elm that has octagonal stretchers.

Olav arrived in the afternoon, and since he didn't have a project started yet, he just helped out everywhere a helping hand was needed. His dog Merlin helped by barking if he felt that no work was being done. Just a single WOOOF and he would look at you and you knew that it was you he meant. I guess he was trained to deal with chairbuilders or apprentices :-)

Besides the working and nerding (tool nerding) we are eating evenly distributed meals throughout the day and once in a while we take a beer. So in short we are having a great time.

Leatherwork.

Brian taking pictures of Gustav and vice versa.

Working on the back of the chair.

Pre-shaping the taper of and octagonal stretcher.

Alex reaming out a tapered hole using a brace.

Small scraps of leather.

Chair parts.

Selfie by the in-house photographer.

Beer and propane, two types of bottled fuel.

Olav, Alex, Jonas and Brian.

Pedder left tuesday evening, so we couldn't get him on this group picture.