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I recently ordered some 4-5 oz leather and it came in a few days ago. This a side, which is one full side of a cow.

I will be making a few minimal wallets and notebooks to begin with. I think I'll need to order a leather splitter since this is slightly too thick for a lot of smaller items.

I will eventually make a weekender duffle but will probably purchase another side for that.

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[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

Where did you source your side?

[–] billionsandbillions@piefed.social 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I bought this one at Tandy online. There's a physical store about a 45 minute drive from my location. Just in case something was wrong with this one, I could possibly have it resolved in store.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Tandy online

It's weird that this better describes a place that sells leather than it does my first computer (which didn't have Internet access).

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Tandy used to own Radio Shack and manufacture computers. My first computer was a Tandy 1000 RLX/HD.

Thinking about this kinda makes me want to make a leather mouse mat to go with the Tandy keyboard I still have.

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