Cool ideas from Carl Friedrik's Bowen backpack for your next leathercraft project - Review

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Carl Friedrik sent me their Bowen backpack for review. As I'v always loved backpacks, this was a perfect opportunity to see how they did it and what I could learn for my next build.
Check out the Bowen backpack here: friedrik.com/9o9
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I make and restore leather products in my spare time, mostly bags, backpacks and small items like wallets and card-holders. I am still learning a ton every time I take on a new project and always appreciate feedback on my creations.
For the moment I don't take orders as I like to spend too many hours getting the finished product as good as I can : this means that if I were to sell these bags, the selling price would be way more than the bags are worth due to the hours of work involved.
I also enjoy restoring old tools and sharing the restoration build videos on this channel.
As always, do let me know what you think of this video. If you have any tips or comments please let me know by dropping a comment below this video :)

Пікірлер: 8

  • @Stevieboy7
    @Stevieboy7 Жыл бұрын

    Just a few points. Tannage =/= stiffness. You can have vegtan thats extremely soft, and chrometan thats extremely stiff. Calling this vachetta is quite incorrect on their marketing team, its a vegetable tanned leather, but in industry vachetta generally refers to a natural, unfinished leather, which this can't be further from. This have a very pigmented paint finish, and if you look at the side/bottom, what appears to be an even heavier paint for the bottom portion. I imagine they do this so that custers won't complain where a natural /aniline finish would patina, this paint will not patina, but it will crack/peel in 5-10 years no matter what you do, and cannot be easily repaired. The style of backstrap attachment is only okay for very small bags. For medium-large scale bags, you what at least a few inches of space in between that that the straps can come out at the correct angle to rest comfortably over the shoulders, and not dig into your neck. This has been studied GREATLY by anthropometric ergonomists looking at backpack design, particularly for heavy loads for children, there's a lot of great paperwork. Its an interesting execution, but from a design perspective it cuts a lot of corners, which considering the cost... seems unfortunate.

  • @Stefonewheel
    @StefonewheelАй бұрын

    Nice vid. I subcribed

  • @kellyhayes
    @kellyhayes Жыл бұрын

    Where can a similar pattern be found?

  • @davidg3594
    @davidg35942 ай бұрын

    Why do you think that lefthanded people wear backpacks on their right shoulder? Watch - yes, but a backpack on a shoulder? - this is interesting

  • @JamesBerry

    @JamesBerry

    Ай бұрын

    I swing my bag on my left shoulder so I can access it with my right hand. Therefore I assume left-handed people would swing the bag over their right shoulder to access it with their left hand. Would love to hear from left-handed people out there to confirm or deny this :D

  • @peterwong-88
    @peterwong-888 ай бұрын

    Female only!?

  • @JamesBerry

    @JamesBerry

    7 ай бұрын

    No, I would very happily use this myself if I had a spare :)

  • @JRAnalyzes

    @JRAnalyzes

    4 ай бұрын

    Not at all, in fact, more men buy these types of backpacks.

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