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madcrow:
The majority of my leather is from 1/8" to 1/4" thinck. When I use it to make neck sheaths, I lay it over a broom handle with the flesh side up and just use a razor blade like a draw knife and slice some of the leather off where it is going to fold. You can also use wood carving gouges and gouge out a few strips and fold it over. I originally started doing that to thin some down for the welt and skive the edges that contact the welt, otherwise I would have 3/4" of leather to sew through.
woodsman1031:
Madcrow,
Thats a great idea! I will do that next time. It actually didnt take that long to make the sheaths. Do you have a self made tool you use for the edging? Like the area where the stitches would go. I have seen a few tools in the Harbor Freight catalog, but I would like to make some leather working tools if I could.
I feel like a kid at Christmas waiting on my knives.
Tommy
madcrow:
Follow this link.
http://beknivessite2.homestead.com/leathergouges.html
In a pinch, you can press down a strip for the stitches by wetting the leather and waiting a few minutes til the leather starts to look dry on top and roll a quarter or nickel down the length of the welt. If you push and try and keep it evenly spaced fromt he edge, it looks great. You can use the info on the link and make an edger for give the edge a rolled down look.
woodsman1031:
Thanks madcrow!
DanaM:
Hope to have pictures up tommow of my entries and then off to the Post Office :)
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