Make Your Own Checkers Game by Hand! | Part 4: The Round Box Assembly

Get the PDF pattern for this leather project here:
www.etsy.com/listing/14851487...
Friends, I hope you’re all doing well. Today we continue with the fourth and last part of out checkers game project!
In this video tutorial, we’ll focus on how to make the round box of our checkers game out of leather. For this project, I used two types of leathers. The first was vegetable tanned leather colored with red dye and the second one some black cowhide leather. This last one was lined with black pigskin to give the leather parts more strength and stiffness before assembling. You can use your preferred type of leather for this project, just remember this set is designed to be used with 2 mm thick leather and vegetable tanned leather works best for this project.
For this project, you’ll need:
- The PDF pattern: www.etsy.com/listing/14851487...
- Card stock paper is optional but great if you wish to give stiffness to your pattern
- Vegetable tanned leather (2mm/5oz thickness) or your preferred type of leather, just make sure it’s not to thick if you plan on combining and glueing several layers like I did in the video.
- A pair of scissors
- A cutting mat or poly-block
- A poly-mallet
- Some tape to fix the pattern to the leather
- A scratch awl
- 2 prong / 6 prong (5 mm separation) chisels: www.etsy.com/listing/85795510...
- A wool dauber if you’re using vegetable tanned leather and plan on staining the board.
- Your preferred type of stains if you wish to paint the board
- An X-acto knife or your preferred type of leather knife
- Carnauba creme
- Tokonole burnishing gum
- A wooden edge slicker
- Saddle stitching thread
- Beeswax
- A pair of stitching needles
In summary, you’ll need the same tools and materials you’ve been using for the chips and checkers board in the previous tutorials. For more detail on the tools I used and how to use them for this project, you can refer to the video itself.
As always, I hope you enjoy watching the video! Let me know what you think of it and if you liked the video and want to see more leather projects don’t forget to subscribe, like, and share!
Have a great day!
-David
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