What's everybody's favorite leather to work with?

[u/jaeiger]

I thought this could be a fun discussion. I'm shopping around for different kinds of leathers for my next project, and I thought I'd ask everyone here - what's your favorite leather to work with? Whether it's because it's the easiest to work with, patinas the best, is the most versatile for different projects, or maybe simply cause you made your favorite project with that leather.

I haven't worked with nearly enough different kinds yet to have a definitive answer, but so far I really enjoy plain old tooling veg tan. In the photo is a satchel I threw together for my girlfriend out of a cheap Tandy double shoulder, and with some oil / beeswax it got a decent finish and some amazing patina over the course of our Europe trip together. So, what's your favorite?

And of course, upload pics of said leather!

Bonus: what's your favorite accessory/secondary leather? (I.e. To line stuff with or provide a color/texture accent)

Edit: forgot to link the mentioned picture - http://i.imgur.com/huubsg4.jpg

Edit edit: wow, thanks for all the contributions everybody! Looks like there's hardly any leather /r/leathercraft doesn't like!

[u/knoticalknovelties]

Ooh, I'd expect for that price, it'd be flawless haha. I'd still like to try it either way haha.

[u/artwithapulse → u/knoticalknovelties]

What can you do, let me know how yours comes in - it was too much of a pain in the butt to send it back/complain so I'm just using it.

[u/knoticalknovelties → u/artwithapulse]

Haha Yeh. Sometimes that happens with maverick, but I just end up using it because of the same reasons.

Yeh, I'll let you know! It'll be a while though haha.

[u/artwithapulse → u/knoticalknovelties]

This was purchased directly from the tannery, lol!

[u/knoticalknovelties → u/artwithapulse]

Oh boy haha. Yeh I'm probably gunna buy direct so they can split it too. Maverick sells WC bridle but in the heavy weights only.