Stacked Leather Knife Handle

I am working on a stacked leather handle for a Finnish knife blade made by Polar that I bought a while back from Ben's Backwoods. As I have accrued some leather scraps over the summer, it only makes sense to try a stacked leather handle. I just started the project today and I have a few pictures of my progress so far. I am using leather from a tooling belly that I bought at Tandy Leather to make some sheaths from.

Cutting the leather rectangles

Rectangles of leather cut and organized

I used dividers to layout each piece before punching holes

Holes punched and ready to cut slot

Slots were cut with utility knife at first, then a mortising chisel

Leather in place for a test fit