Hi and good mornin'. Thanks. The photo is my third effort about 5 months ago. I love this work! How do you make a sheath without a welt with some sort of a hard insert to protect the leather? Also. I wet form the leather. I was an upholsterer and did a lot of leather work with lighter leather. We wet it often. However, it gets pretty hard when staining and using Resolene. Sort of like a shoe. Using vegetable tanned 8-10 ounce from Springfield. Beautiful but too shiny and hard. Love a soft yielding supple feel but finished and protected. Thanks again for your response.Not at all, go ahead.
Not seeing the pic?Hi and good mornin'. Thanks. The photo is my third effort about 5 months ago. I love this work! How do you make a sheath without a welt with some sort of a hard insert to protect the leather? Also. I wet form the leather. I was an upholsterer and did a lot of leather work with lighter leather. We wet it often. However, it gets pretty hard when staining and using Resolene. Sort of like a shoe. Using vegetable tanned 8-10 ounce from Springfield. Beautiful but too shiny and hard. Love a soft yielding supple feel but finished and protected. Thanks again for your response.
Ya bet!Yep! Puuko sheath is what I mean. Thanks for the help! Franco
I don't visit here often enough, missed this thread! Nice Dave, gotta watch that thread while dabbing I bet! very cool thanks for all your tips sir.
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I'm actually pretty happy to see this bumped back up to the top! Great tutorial as always Mr Dave! What color Fiebings HI Lighter are you using? Dark Brown?
I see @J.Keeton asked my question in a more understandable way. This is the Hi-Lite I was asking about https://tandyleather.com/products/eco-flo-hi-lite-color-stain-44oz?variant=31977660383363 and obviously (now ) it is not the product you use.No I don't use anything to dilute Bag Kote. Either in my mixture here or when I use it by it self as a finish. Not sure what Eco Flo is?
Perfect! Thank you for taking the time.Gotcha, yep Fiebings Hi Lighter. Brown color.
Ya bet!Perfect! Thank you for taking the time.