Every Moc Goods piece - key fob cover or watch strap - passes through the same craft on our Da Nang bench. Below, in order, with photos from the bench:
- Hide selection. We hand-pick premium leather in small lots from trusted local suppliers. Hides with loose grain or surface scars go back; only the cleanest cuts make it onto the workbench.
- Pattern cutting. Each piece is traced from a template - brass for key fob shapes matched to your exact key model, kraft paper for straps cut to the length you ordered - then cut by hand with a round knife against a steel ruler. No laser, no clicker dies.
- Edge bevelling and skiving. Raw edges are chamfered or thinned to a fine ramp so the seams sit flush and the finished edge takes paint cleanly.
- Saddle stitching. Two needles, one waxed thread, passing through every pre-pricked hole from opposite sides. If one stitch fails, the others hold. Machine stitching unravels - saddle stitching does not.
- Edge finishing. Sanded, painted in a matched colour, heat-set, sanded back, painted again. Three to five passes until the edge reads as one continuous piece.
- Hand stamping. Your initials, your name, or a logo - pressed into the leather with a heated brass die. Free with every order.
One key fob takes about 90 minutes from hide to finished piece. One watch strap takes close to a full working day - there are six layers of leather to skive, glue, trim, and finish before the stitching even begins. We make a few dozen pieces a week between the two lines - that is the limit of what a small team can do properly.
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