Orange Daily Beater

This was my daily, and lived in my back pocket through everything: rain, snow, hot and cold. While I mostly live a white collar life, I don’t spend it cooped up inside, and took it with me on plenty of outings to god knows where.

the veg tan wore in wonderfully, taking shape to its contents and shows a clear difference between the worn, darkened, and polished exterior and the relatively untouched interior. The natural grain really shows now, and the edges I intentionally left unfinished have gracefully rounded themselves smooth over time.

Having built this for myself as merely a hobbyist, the stitching and finish is far from perfect, and the edges I left raw. However, the wonderful property of leather is that it wears in: a piece adopts an organic, natural form and a personality of its own extremely quickly, and with good leathers this new soul immediately begins to outshine mere mechanical inconsistencies and imperfections, such as a slightly off-beat stitch or two.

I’m very happy with my little creation, It’s aged very well in the past six months and I’ll very likely use it until it disintegrates. Leather wallets sit at a very comfortable intersection of “not too difficult to make on your own”, “usable every day”, and “little trinket you can be happy about”, so I highly recommend building your own if you ever have a need for a new wallet. Did not cost very much either, decent leather should cost about $10 a square foot, and actually assembling it took me about an hour.