Something different

[MY63]

I know it is not wood working but I thought some people might appreciate the story.
As a leather worker I get asked to make all sorts of things, I specialise in making custom armoured pen cases for high end fountain pens.
Occasionally I buy and restore old leather cases, this time I was approached by a Doctor who I had made a pen case for asking if I could restore his Grandfathers Doctors case.
As I had just finished working with the NHS myself I decided to take the project on.

2020-12-17_08-23-04 by my0771, on Flickr

As it arrived the case was almost flat it would not stand and the area around the lock had been pushed in, As the case had been wet at some point the leather had held the shape.
I was asked if it would be possible to stabalise the case to prevent further damage.
In total it took around 35 hours to get to this point, almost as good as new.

2020-12-17_08-23-52 by my0771, on Flickr

The full story is on my blog if you are looking for something to read over the holidays.

 

[novocaine]

Oh very nice, did you have to shrink the leather to get it hold it's shape again?

 

[MY63]

https://my63leather.wixsite.com/my63

Sorry I have not updated the blog link in my signature to my new blog,
@Novocaine This case was made differently to anything else I have restored so far, rather than boards inside to provide support, this case has strips of thicker leather around the edges.

2020-11-28_10-23-45 by my0771, on Flickr

Of course once this supporting leather got wet it held the position the same as the front and rear panel.
The only solution I could find was to add grey board to the back of the front and rear panels to give support.