I looked at a Scotty Money Holder and KNEW from my leatherworking skillz back in the eighth grade, I could do this one!

1st things 1st....To Tandy Leather I go:

in a scrap basket, I bought a BUNCH of super thin tooling scrap leather. I bought enough for 10 of these for $8 bucks
I bought the clip hardware ..(spring loaded money clip) I can stamp and color fill that thing too!

Here in Austin, we have a shop that has hundreds of taxidermy mounts, cow hides, aligator hides and every other off the wall animal hides you could ever imagine. I bought two lizard hides for 4.99 ea...enough to do 4 of these clips.

I already have metal stamps (for golf clubs) and knives and such to begin this project.

1)I cut out the main leather piece the size I wanted the clip
2)Cut a piece of lizard hide and glued it to the back of the main leather piec minus the middle.
(first attempt I screwed up...You need to install the clip holder and fold the leather over THEN glue the lizard backing on the back while folded. It is too tight to close if you don't) I left extra lizard over the edge.
3)Cut two card holder pieces for each side and using my metal stamps that I use for clubs to stamp his name on one side. Using the "0" and the "V" and period..... I stamped a likeness of his favorite putter company above his name (don't worry.... I am not selling these)
4)My son is all about Puma, so using an exacto and a light touch, I cut a cat on the other side and using a burnisher, I beveled the edge slightly.
5)I applied a minute amount of contact cement on the edges of these and tacked them on each end
6)I took the clip to a Shoe Hospital near my home and the guy stiched the edges: $12
7)Timmed the edges and sanded the edges
8)burnished the edges
9)Stained the edges and used a sealer on the raw leather
I used a phillips bit and stamped some small stars on the metal spring loaded clip. Paint filled them and here she is:
TOTAL COST OF MATERIALS:
$22 and I have alot left over!

I made this first one for my son........I now will do one for myself, but I will make mine a tad larger.

Coolest dad ever.

Thats very cool!
And over time the handmade look is gonna age even cooler.
Love the colored dots on the clip too!

How do we order??

JWF

I am off on Fridays, so when I finished this one this morning, I went back over to the taxidermy exotics store and I found a piece of Alligator Tail and a frog hide that I am torn between. I was going to do mine with alligator until I saw this frog hide, it is and AWESOME leather. I don't where a frog came from that is this big, but I never imagined you could get leather from a FROG!
It looks better in person than this pic though~
Toad Hide


I should have stamped "prototype" on this one for my son, because unlike golf companies......I use prototypes as ways to learn to make things better. I learned a few things on this first one. Let me do mine and then I may do some custom ones for WRXrs.
I was amazed how easy this one ended up being. I wish my wifes sewing machine would sew leather, then I could do it all!

Great job!

amazing looking, can't wait to order mine

ill take one!

Count me in for one LOL! Seriously, that's great work!

That is truly awesome. I am definitely interested if you ever do orders.

I don't impress easily but I'm impressed. We bought a couple of industrial sewing machines at an auction for $75 a piece. They had 3 phase motors and we don't have 3 phase current but it only cost $150 to get new single phase clutch motors for the purpose. They have come in handy many times. You might check around for such auctions but around here there used to be a number of mills that went out of business when all the jobs went to China.

Does that shop in Austin ship or have a website?

very cool!!!

Yep......P-R-O-T-O-T-Y-P-E ...... my son got home from school and looked at it and 5minutes later asked......"could you cut a window in the one side for my school ID?"
Gone is the Puma now and I cut a ID window in that side and mounted a clear flexible window in that side.

King,
I picked up a card from the guy today but for the life of me......I cant find it. I will find the card or get another one from him. I am going to take by a couple of shoulder mounts that I am not using so I can grab another one if I cant find his.

I'll have to add this to my off-season project list....which is getting a little long. I know we used to have a Tandy's around here but it has been gone for a long time so I'll have to see what I can find. I think the biggest problem will be the clip....everything that I have seen is closer to the flat, u-shaped clips.

The good news is that my sister does a lot of little projects so I already have access to a rather large scrap pile of leather pieces and leather stamps....now, I just need to find the right 'exotic' piece for the outside.

Thanks for the idea...and after I give it a couple tries, you'll be hearing from me to see if I can buy one from you.

I'd love to have one of those. Really nice work

-Chris

I'd definitely buy one

What's your paypal?

I am in for a few different ones if you start making them.


Scotty B

put me on the buying list

i would def buy one

I would buy one too. You could make a pretty penny from this if you wanted to.

gimmie gimmie

Awesome work!!!! Love the branding on the inside and the stitchwork. Very impressive. If you had put Scotty Cameron instead of S Nolen, you would have had me and some others duped. Great job!!!

Thats really great. Let us know when you start taking orders.

Awesome work guy, yea I would love to have one if you start to produce them.

evnpar.....Jevan was our savior here, I thought.........congrats on inheriting a great kid! I wish Snead and the Rebels nothing but the best.


I am going to make 6-8 of these at least now....... I will post the actual skins backed and will make all of them with an ID window on one side and a card holder on the other side. Once you choose the backing.......I will stamp your name and ONE logo of your choice on the card holder leather side.

Once I make the backings and visibly POST them......I will THEN and ONLY THEN make them available to WRX's only. AT THAT TIME..........It will be first come, first serve. You will be able to pick out in order the actual pictured hide thar you want.

I plan on Lizard, American Aligator, Frog, & Crocodile.........

What will the price be at???

Put me on the list too! That looks really nice.

TH

I hope i can get on the list, i really want one..

just a idea. would anyone else want a matching score/note pad also? i think that would be a big seller..

That's AWESOME!
I'd love to have one in score card holder size with a pencil pocket.

please pm me when they are available. i would love to buy one, especially from a fellow texan. CE

Such an amazing job.

Kudos!

Sign me U P ! !

I am like a kid in a candy store today. I got home this afternoon and I now have in hand.............Brown American Aligator belly, Black Crocodile, green lizard, and brown lizard to make quite a few money clips. I have alot of guys here at our club that want to steal Stratton's. I am off tomorrow so with tonight and tomorrow, I should have quite a few pictures of the backed money-card/holder clips tomorrow.

Since I have had to pay so much for hides, I thought I might get a good deal on hides from a purse, so I did buy a crocodile purse on ebay that I got a decent price on. I figured that I could strip the hide off of and use it for clips........until my wife saw it and quickly confiscated this purse for herself, so I will only have black croc from the hide I bought, no orange. And I could have made at least 6 clips out of this purse!

What a coincidence, an old TBH buddy! Great looking clips! Looks like Strat is really doing well. Good to see you again. I mighthave to talk to you about one of those clips!

Bowana

Nice to see you David! We were in your neck of the woods last weekend at a tourny. Hope your season has been better than mine......I have not sat out one day yet!

wow. first the putter, now this...