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Making a Leather Tripod Strap - Perfect for Hiking and Nature Photography!

Morley Kert
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705 views 4 years ago #leathercraft #travel #photography
This simple, adjustable, over-the-shoulder tripod strap is perfect for travel, hiking and other photography adventures! This video is a collaboration with my Into the Spotlight co-host, Ryan O'Connor (   / ry.oconnor   ), who commissioned me to make this tripod strap. He also shot the beautiful footage at the beginning and end of this video! Ryan and I co-host Into the Spotlight, a podcast about creativity, featuring interviews with creatives across a wide range of fields. Check it out at https://anchor.fm/into-the-spotlight ! The tripod strap started with two pieces of 3-4oz veg tan leather. Before attaching the pieces together to form a double-sided strap, I dyed the leather brown, cleaned off any dye remnants with saddle soap paste, restored moisture to the leather with neatsfoot oil and finished the leather with two coats of carnauba creme. Links to all of these products are below! Once the face of the leather was finished, I attached th …...more
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Making a Leather Tripod Strap - Perfect for Hiking and Nature Photography!
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705Views
2020Sep 29
This simple, adjustable, over-the-shoulder tripod strap is perfect for travel, hiking and other photography adventures! This video is a collaboration with my Into the Spotlight co-host, Ryan O'Connor (   / ry.oconnor   ), who commissioned me to make this tripod strap. He also shot the beautiful footage at the beginning and end of this video! Ryan and I co-host Into the Spotlight, a podcast about creativity, featuring interviews with creatives across a wide range of fields. Check it out at https://anchor.fm/into-the-spotlight ! The tripod strap started with two pieces of 3-4oz veg tan leather. Before attaching the pieces together to form a double-sided strap, I dyed the leather brown, cleaned off any dye remnants with saddle soap paste, restored moisture to the leather with neatsfoot oil and finished the leather with two coats of carnauba creme. Links to all of these products are below! Once the face of the leather was finished, I attached the pieces back-to-back with contact cement. I offset the two pieces so that I would have room to attach a slide on one end and a rectangle ring at the other. Then I beveled and dyed the edges. The bulk of the work was two lines of saddle stitching down the length of the strap. Before finishing the stitchlines, I had to double the strap back on itself through the slide, and attach the rectangle ring to the other end. Once the stitching was done, I burnished the edges with gum tragacanth and beeswax. The adjustable strap attaches to a tripod with a leather loop on either end, held in place with rivets. When these loops are passed through themselves, they become self-tightening loops that grab onto the head and legs of a tripod! During this project, I learned that you don't have to pass the loops all the way through themselves to make them self tightening - you can just fold them back over themselves and add a half-twist (but this is much easier to explain visually in the video 😉). Thanks for watching! Become a patron:   / morleykert   STUFF I USED IN THIS VIDEO (affiliate links): Leather Dye: https://amzn.to/3n1d3kj Saddle soap paste: https://amzn.to/36f2lki Neatsfoot oil: https://amzn.to/3ibVNp4 Carnauba Creme: https://amzn.to/2O709lb Edge Beveler: https://amzn.to/2OkEzZz Gum tragacanth: https://amzn.to/30LcCR7 Stitching chisels: https://amzn.to/2q7kkqs OTHER TOOLS I LIKE TO USE: https://www.amazon.com/shop/morleykert ONLINE STORE: https://morleykert.com/shop Find me on... Instagram:   / morleykert   Twitter:   / morleykert   On these podcasts! : https://anchor.fm/into-the-spotlight and https://clamp.buzzsprout.com/ Tik Tok: https://vm.tiktok.com/xSfbdj/ and at https://morleykert.com/ Music by Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referra... #photography #travel #leathercraft

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Morley Kert

674K subscribers