Razor leather case

Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Monday, February 20, 2023

Razor Leather Case

My safety razor broke during usage last week, so I sadly had to order a new one.

I'm not really into shaving at all, but I want something that works and safety razors does both work and is cheap in the long run. For those interested, I bought a AL13 razor from Henson Shaving [1].

This time I used my Laser cutting machine to cut out the leather.

The steps

I use Librecad [2] to create my patterns. It works well, but I miss functionality to add stitch holes in a good way.

Maybe I will write a plugin to fix that some day..

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I use Lightburn [3] to control the laser. It is simple and does what I want. It works with Linux as well.

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One tip is to heavily wet the leather to keep it flat on the laser board:

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It takes one day for the leather to dry, so continue the next day.

I should probably have run one more pass, the leather was not completely cut out. The scalpel came into use.

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Groove to cut a channel in which stitching can be set.

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Beavel the edges

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Stamp the holes:

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All holes stamped!:

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Dye the parts, i use the oil based Pro Dye with Saddle Tan.

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Apply black edge color and burn the edges. It became quite smudgy this time..

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Stitch the parts together.

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At last, apply a sealing to protect the dye.

The result

The intention was to use a leather flap to close the case, but the text would end up behind so I had to use a button instead.

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