Most of my pants have small pockets. When doing gardening, standing up and down, this is not very confortable when you have your keys in. With some leather leftover, I made a simple keychain handler. You can attach keys to the belt or put it on your wrist.
Tips: Select the same color for all metallic parts
For carved leather:
For coloring:
Necessary:
(without counting the painting, irrelevant for the project)
Total: 10.9€ without labor ! (Think about this before buying on Etsy)
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Cut the end of the strip to get rounded edges (or any suitable shape)
Carve the leather at wish. Here, this is a simple pattern:
At the start, make the two most distant holes: one for the pressing button, one for the rivet (at 1cm from the ends). This are the simplest ones.
Next, make a hole for the pressing button 1cm near by the rivet hole.
Note: There are some template where the pressing button serve as a rivet. While this is more elegant, this is not recommended. First, it is hard to get a button with a large traversing pin. Next, button are not designed for that.
For the last hole, (the second rivet hole), you may need to adapt the template based on the leather thickness: if your leather is too thick, it will be difficult to get it bent within a small radius. To reduce thickness, use a dedicated razor, near the dashed line, until you get something correct.
With natural color:
Here, dedicated clamp are more than welcome, especially for the pressing button.
Here, I used a Chicago screw, which is easy to put when you don’t have many tools at home (However, be careful, it can unscrew itself).
Full strip:
Bent:
Final result:
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