Where to buy leather?

I'm in need of a new wallet / card holder and though I'd make my own one in leather. Had a google and looked on ebay and there is places to get leather online, but not sure about quality etc? Has anyone bought leather online and can recommend a shop, or perhaps a shop in london, that sells quality leather?

Does anyone do any leather work btw? I don't know anything about it but reckon it could quite a nice thing to do now when winter's here

go to an upholsters and ask for some cut-offs, or old swatches from furnature shops.

Go here:

http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1218/8296.php

A great quirky place with anything u could possibly need. Or there's a place on brick lane that does offcuts/skins on a sunday, corner of cheshire str.

nice one, will have a look over the weekend

epic let down

hahaha

I think we could persuede Oliver to turn this into another punfest, either that or he's away to hide.

epic let down

sorry man. however googling it you get all sorts of treats in the result

I usually google image search for "melons"

While you are chirstmas shopping on-line why not treat a female family member to an "extreme facial"... not the ageing skin treatment i had in mind

I think we could persuede Oliver to turn this into another punfest, either that or he's away to hide.

Don't kid about that kinda stuff

2 punning Olivers on the forum, I suspect this will end the same way as two Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks colliding. Forget about the LHC, this is the end of civilisation as we know it.

Don't kid about that kinda stuff

+loads.

This thread could be, like, normal every day words that you can put in google image search at work and get a sneaky look at some boobs or knobs or something. It could be epic.

2 punning Olivers on the forum, I suspect this will end the same way as two Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks colliding. Forget about the LHC, this is the end of civilisation as we know it.

Ha I'm no match for Schick. Unless I caught him nappa-ing, he'd patently tan me.

With Oli being a vegan I very much doubt it that he would enjoy a punning session about leather etc. So I think the nu-buck stops here.

if he wasn't, he's skin you alive

Think we're milking it a bit now, you all deserve a pat on the back though for your efforts.

Done a fair bit of leatherwork, made bags, pouches (not those kind) and a couple of knife sheaths. I have used http://www.leprevo.co.uk/ for my tools and leather, they only sell large full/half hides, pretty pricey. Sorry, don't have any offcuts apart from some 3mm thick stuff for belts, too thick for a wallet.

My gear's all for working on the thick stuff, if you want some practise bits and some needles and thread just say. It's cool to make stuff from scratch, I made shit loads of mistakes as I went along but that's a good way of learning.

Plenty of good tutorials in-line, would recommend the leathercraft forum on britishblades.com if you can stomach pictures of knives and talk of knife collecting.

Just pm if you want to know anything else.....

Sorry for disrupting the run of puns!

If leather punning was karate Oli would be a black pelt

^^^Bobby you just don't get it do you ;-)

if they're any good you might pur-suede me to buy one

Aniline will do for me.

Urrrgggh, animal product-based punning. I'd obviously seriously compromise my veganism if I got into such puns. Oh, bullocks to that, a pun's a pun. Chamois on you all for leading me astray.

HA! olly, does animal punning, some vegan.

I have always wondered if male vegans are into oral sex...............