Making a shooting bag

[woodse guy]

I want to make a shooting bag. I have the leather. I bought a piece of poster board to make my pattern. What do you guys use to make your pattern on to transfer to the leather?

 

[hanshi]

In the past I've simply used brown paper.

 

[necchi]

Printer paper and scotch tape, :wink:

 

[skunkskinner]

I just cut fold and sew.

 

[BrownBear]

I use whatever is handy. We have a mountain of the Pendaflex file hangers left over from days when we did lots of files, and they're just dandy. Also use the flat rate postal boxes from the post office, regular file folders, even plain old cardboard.

I like my patterns a little rigid, so they don't tend to fold along the edges when I'm marking around them onto the leather. That's my only real requirement- it can't be too soft. No such thing as too hard or too stiff.

 

[Little Wattsy]

I want to make a shooting bag. I have the leather. I bought a piece of poster board to make my pattern. What do you guys use to make your pattern on to transfer to the leather?

I like light cardboard (like a paper plate consistancy)... But brown paper bags work too.

 

[crockett]

Some of it depends on how heavy your leather is but generally I tape a heavy paper pattern on the leather. If the leather is thin enough I use scissors, if thick a round knife or the belly on a skinning knife cuts a clean line- do over scrap wood.
If the leather is thick I recommend some sort of gusset.

 

[plinker]

Soda pop cartons.

 

[ApprenticeBuilder]

cereal box