Top Grade Tooling Veg

Regular price $7.85 Square Foot
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Description

Leather Type: Cowhide
Tannage: Vegetable Tanned
Cut: Side
Temper: Medium Soft to Medium Firm
Average Size: 27–32 Sq. Ft.
Item Number: TPGT

Our Top Grade Tooling Sides are what most companies would call their #1's or premium grade—clean, light, and pretty doggone nice! These sides are selected for their cleaner surface and give leathercrafters a great starting point for carving, stamping, dyeing, antiquing, and finishing.

This is the kind of vegetable-tanned leather you want when the face of the leather is going to become part of the artwork. It takes moisture well for tooling and can be carved, stamped, molded, dyed, oiled, and finished to create everything from detailed decorative work to clean, traditional leather projects.

Choose the weight that best fits your project:

  • 3–4 oz.: Approximately 27–32 Sq. Ft. A versatile lighter tooling weight for wallets, notebook covers, small bags, panels, and detailed decorative work.
  • 4–5 oz.: Approximately 27–32 Sq. Ft. A good general-purpose tooling weight with enough body for many wallets, bags, cases, covers, and carved projects.
  • 5–6 oz.: Approximately 27–32 Sq. Ft. Offers more body for projects such as heavier bags, cases, cuffs, panels, and other work where a firmer finished piece is useful.

Top Grade refers to the overall cleanliness and appearance of the hide, not a promise that every inch will be completely free of natural character. Cowhide can still show occasional scars, wrinkles, insect marks, or other evidence that it came from an animal. The advantage here is simply that you're starting with some of the cleaner tooling sides we have available.

Please Note: Natural vegetable-tanned leather will vary somewhat in color, grain, and surface character from side to side.

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Overall rating: 4.5666666 / 5 from 30 reviews.

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"very nice Leather !!! This quality and pricing is exactly why I do my business with Springfield Leather Company. They have super nice employees that will help you get what your needing / looking for"

— Poppy (5/5)

Great for my laser engraved items

"The perfect leather for my laser engraved items, especially hats! Burns perfect, takes dye evenly, great stiffness and thickness."

— MJ (5/5)

Do you have the Git

"Do you have the Git Er Done box for $80?"

— Vernetta E. (5/5)

"What can I say never disappointed!!"

— Robert (5/5)

Amazing products

"I’ve been ordering from here for 5 years. I’ve never received a bad product from them. I really like that they give you a great product and they have a great selection that they will sell by the foot and the customer service is amazing"

— Jessie C. (5/5)

"very good quality"

— Poppy (5/5)

I'm loving this leather!

"As soon as I finish my project I will send some pictures. It is tooling beautifully!"

— Diane F. (1/5)

Tooling veg.

"Love this leather."

— James M. (5/5)

Perfect!

"Excellent quality!"

— Sharon P. (5/5)

Customer Service Wins!

"I am very happy with the leather I received. The real winner though was the customer service team. My order was not placed according to my cutting instructions so I called SLC customer service and a friendly person with no questions asked sent me out the replacement immediately with a heartfelt sorry about the mistake. When I received the new order, it was cut exactly right and the leather quality was even better than from the first batch. It's rare to talk to a friendly person in customer service anywhere and SLC has you covered!"

— GREGG S. (5/5)

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