Okay, this is remarkable. Now you need a upgrad in the right directionDid you ever get to experiment with hot water and leather? It's a bit tricy though but that will give you the last needed step. You neet to think about how to press the lether of a longer while in the exact for you want it, then you cook water and drank the Leatherfeace you neet to form f.ex. to get a stabe curavture in a shoulderpad. Let the leter get wet and soaked and then bent it the form you want, with binding (transparent foil helps to keep things you use as from protected) strong clamps an such and then let it dry. Be careful, do not put it next to a heather, tat runins the leather, and you need to refat the leather after abit to keep it stabe. Good luck ; and have fun