Leather Shop Apron

Been wearing one for twenty years. I have taken to making my own as. when they wear out, you can never find one quite like it.

When I retired, I had a lot more shop time. I typically wore t-shirts or sweat shirts and generally got them stained with all sorts of non-removable stuff. Maggy would get tired of seeing me head off to town for the mail or a meeting of the OFC with a soiled shirt (note: it may well have been just out of the washer, but ...). So she "suggested" that I get a shop apron. Rockler had a nice canvas/denim one on sale so I bought that one. Like you, I suddenly had a place for a pencil, straight edge, tape, a few screws, etc. But best of all, my t/sweat shirts didn't get stained. Maggy thought it looked great and said, "Now don't get it dirty". (!)

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"DonkeyHody" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

A lot of people must have taken the advice and bought one. They are out of stock until the 23rd.

They're a safety item as well. Protecting the 'nads from flying debris of a broken routerbit has always been high on my list.

Since my wife found me a leather apron to fit my tall frame, I'm never in the shop without it. I cringed when I heard what she paid for it, but I'm over that now, esp. now that wood chips don't get imbedded in my shirts anymore.

Dave

p.s. OFC is the Old Farts Club.

took me a while to find it, but here it is:

Dave

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:27:34 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, snipped-for-privacy@nowhere.com quickly quoth:

aMEN, brother!

That's "JAYZUSS", sir.

Get thee to the local HF store. Leather welder's aprons are only $8.

These aprons are thick and will absorb much of the energy of the many kickbacks you might receive on a daily basis, too. (K: DTTAH.)

BTW, don't get the straight canvas welder's apron. Open the package and you'll find out why in one whiff. The stench of the flame retardant is downright ILLEGAL.

-- "Not always right, but never uncertain." --Heinlein -=-=-

At HF, that's not flame retardant. That's Chinese Cat Pee!

I always said, "Honey that's nothing but good clean sawdust." Didn't matter if it was sticking to my shirt, coming out of my pockets, or tracked in on her clean floor. I still get just a little in my pockets, but not nearly as much. The stuff that gets on my shirt now brushes right off, not impedded like before. Well, two out of three ain't bad.

DonkeyHody "A poor workman quarrels with his tools." - American Indian Proverb

I always said, "Honey that's nothing but good clean sawdust." Didn't matter if it was sticking to my shirt, coming out of my pockets, or tracked in on her clean floor. I still get just a little in my pockets, but not nearly as much. The stuff that gets on my shirt now brushes right off, not impedded like before. Well, two out of three ain't bad.

DonkeyHody "A poor workman quarrels with his tools." - American Indian Proverb

Really bad visual...

I'm a shortarse, but I made my apron myself. At any of the summer medieval / re-enactor / LARP fairs there are a bunch of leather traders there selling beautiful quality leather at prices much lower than anywhere else I can get it. Mine cost me £20 for something about 1 1/2 aprons in area in a beautiful quality soft suede that drapes nicely when kneeling. Any comparable apron would be about £50, and not such good material. The ties on mine are tablet-woven braid I did myself (in case I ever need to dress up as a Viking in it), but you can buy cotton webbing easily enough. If you're just sewing tapes on, then sewing by hand with a thimble or sailmaker's palm (made from the same leather) is easy. If you want a pocket or the ever-so-useful bottom edge gusset, then just sew it on a good domestic sewing machine with a leather needle

- you _don't_ need a huge powerful machine to sew leather, but you only get one shot at sewing each seam.

Lie-Nielsen also makes a good leather apron.

D> Folks, I have come to preach to you the gospel of the leather shop > apron. >

Lie-Nielsen has a good one, too.

Lie-Nielsen also makes a nice leather apron. See

D> Folks, I have come to preach to you the gospel of the leather shop > apron. >

Thanks for the idea! The missus like to sew, maybe I can get her to custom make one. I would just like a leather one that stops above the knee with a few pockets for the stuff I use the most. The last two I tried on didn't even go far enough down to cover some body parts that should be protected! --dave