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Can't Shoot - Leather Projects

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Pat B:
I use Mink Oil or Montana Pitch Blend. What I do is put the glove on, rub in whatever treatment you use and hand rub it is well. The heat from the friction of hand rubbing will help the treatment sink in.   Once a year I wash my glove in a mild detergent and warm water to get rid of the salts from your hand. After a good rinsing I put the glove back on(still damp) to re-shape it then set it aside to dry. After it dries it will be stuff but another treatment, hand rubbed in will soften it up again.

cantshoot:
Thanks for the advice guys :)

Latest project is a quiver. The leather on tho one came from an old and egregiously unfashionable jacket I got for 15$ at the thrift store. Can make each sleeve into a quiver and the rest of it saved for a future project. Or wear it as the ugliest vest in human history lol.

Still a work in progress haven't quite decided how to attach it, either belt loops or its own belt.

I also plan to make a removable fabric liner for when inevitably a muddy arrow makes its way in.

cantshoot:
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DC:
Was it a bikers jacket? Any leather jackets I've found have been very thin leather. I thought a bikers jacket may be thicker.

cantshoot:
It is pretty thin stuff. But I stiffened it by soaking and redrying it and added some ribs of thick scrap leather on the inside and a thick leather cup in the bottom did the ribs an inch wide because I wanted to do the stitching on the inside and reverse it

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