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This is very heavy, vegetable tanned leather. To get the stiffness and heft I'm looking for I needed to make it double thickness. That means I need to sew the two pieces together. To do this I have a specialized sewing awl.
pic 01: To make my stitches neat and even, I use a tool like a spur, a little spiked wheel to mark where the stitches should go. You can see the little dotted line along the handle of the paddle where I'll make my stitches. If you look carefully, you can see four or so large holes I made at the beginning with a punch. This was a good first try, but there was no way for me to make the holes go through the second layer of leather, so I quit, and just pierced both layers with the awl.
pic 02: Now I've made a couple stitches, lets' see how they work.
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