Goon Holler Wallet

I don't really have much to say about this right now. I'm tired so all you're getting is a picture.

GOON HOLLER WALLET

-Miles

GOGO13 Wallet

Hello all,

I am now in a place in my life where I'm able to be making a lot more, and will be posting my works here far more often.
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This past week I decided to make a wallet. This has been something I've been wanting to make for quite some time now, and I don't mean a duct tape wallet, I've made enough of those.
For this wallet my material of choice was vinyl, something I'm relatively familiar with.
When a cut of orange vinyl was on sale at my work, I knew exactly what must be done; I must make a GOGO13 wallet.

Sadly I didn't take too many pictures, so I'll just be talking you through the process.

First I made a template out of paper. A lot of this process was me sitting there starring at the table trying to figure this out, since vinyl has to be worked with much differently than duct tape. But I eventually came up with a two piece pattern that worked pretty well.

But before I started cutting out wallet pieces, I needed to make the front logo. The logo I chose to go with is the G13 "Free Agent".

I first cut the logo out of black vinyl, but decided it would look better printed on white vinyl.

I printed out the logo in many different sizes to figure out the best size and once I figured it out the best size I printed out a few of that size onto a sheet of label paper. A few of them for when I inevitably made a mistake.

Using an exacto blade I cut out the positive from the label and applied the negative to a piece of white vinyl. I then painted it with a vinyl spray paint. After removing the stencil, I cut the printed piece to shape, and sewed it onto the front wallet piece.

I cut out the pocket pieces and backed all the pieces with interfacing. It was then that I decided to make the pockets both orange and black.

I couldn't decide on the order so I took to social media for for suggestion.

The majority said back/orange/black and I agreed. I stitched over the folds and printed the "G13" on one of the black pockets using the same method of "printing" as before.

The rest was basically just sewing it all together. My sewing machine isn't really made to handle so much vinyl, so there a few less stitches than I wanted and some of the stitches are wonky, but overall it came out great and has held up well being used as my everyday wallet for the past week.

I'm purchasing a heavy duty machine this week and will be working on many new things in the weeks to come.

-Miles

Sandfleas Patch

I couldn't sleep last night, so I decided to make a patch based off of a patch that was "being sold" on the old Sandfleas website. 

For having no skills in embroidering, I think it came out fantastically. 

And because of the whole mentality of the band; it was purposely sloppy. 

The patch was embroidered on a light canvas and is roughly 3 inches in diameter. 

The back was coated in wood glue to hold the stitches. 

This patch it part of a much larger project that I am working on. 

-Miles

Sewn Charge Power Belt

This was a fun project.

My friend had commissioned me to make him a Fury power belt but really wanted a Charge style, but I am no longer making that style, due to the printing process required.

So I made a deal with him, I would make that style, but with all sewn pieces instead of printed, which is how that belt design is made.
It's something I've wanted to do for a while, and I think it came out awesome.
I didn't take a lot of pictures, but I'll try to cover it.

In 2008 the band briefly sold Power Belts at their concerts, so I used one that I had purchased to get the exact measurements of all the shapes.

Since most of the shapes on the belt are black around white, I decided that it would be easier to just have the layer of black on top of the layer of white, instead of trying the get the cuts to fit perfectly inside each other, which would be quite difficult since I'd be cutting it by hand.

I cut out all the black shapes out of vinyl and used spray adhesive to hold them onto larger pieces of white vinyl.
For the bat I used a straight stitch, and for the shapes I used a a zig-zag stitch(after deciding that a circular straight stitch is hard to make look good).

After trimming the white, I used the same adhesive and sewing method for attaching the shapes to the belt base.
I used 4-inch wide black hook&loop fastener, and used 1-inch elastic for the border.

This belt had possibly one of my fastest turn around, at least for such a complex design.
The most laborious part of the whole build was probably the cutting.
I love the way this belt came out, and I can't wait to make one for myself.

-Miles

Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog for 1900 Labs, my new company.
I make things. I make replicas, props, costumes, guitar straps, hoodies; basically whatever I want to learn how to make. What I do most is replica Aquabats Power Belts.

I made this blog to share what I'm working on, as well as just update on things I'm learning.

So... yeah! Enjoy!

-Miles