Coin wallet - pocket portal

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Coin wallet - pocket portal

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Recently acquired a Pocket Portal and have gone off on a stint of making some of my own, as the quality of the retail product is “fine” and serviceable but limited in leathers
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Also, the retail are single layer leather and the interior snap is exposed, making me nervous for popping my good coins into.


So, as I have piles of high quality veg tanned leather laying around I started whipping up some prototypes to see how different leathers performed, made a half dozen single layer and then a half dozen inner lined ones (currently I am only making ones with inner lining to protect the coins, and because it looks spiffy)


I made a bakers dozen prototypes thus far of varying levels of finish quality and stiffness thus far

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In the end found a combo in the blue one in the forefront using goat exterior and a nice soft interior, ordered some more leather which will be here shortly:

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Will surely end up with a bunch more than I can use so PM me if you own the Pocket Portal and would like a free upgrade ;)

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Made a pair of them for a friend’s xmas needs - going to kick out more like this - digging the colors and leathers…

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Those are quite nice, well done! I recently bought a high-quality leather wallet as well as a leather messenger bag - something that will hopefully last me for years to come. How did you get into leatherworking?
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Started trying to make some simple protection for some coins and mixed sea life - got out of hand quickly ;)
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Hobbies tend to do that, don't they :D Very interesting stuff, thanks for sharing.
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