How often to re-wet your leather when tooling
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- A vital part of tooling leather is getting the right moisture content. Once you have the leather cased right, it’s important to maintain that throughout the tooling process.
In this video I show you certain indicators that tell you it’s time to add water.
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When I first started I would add too much water and get the wrinkles. Couldn’t figure it out at first. Thought it might be my knife. Would try different methods. Different blade. Same thing. Finally figured it out after much frustration. A tip such as yours may seem simple but for a beginner it is worth it’s weight in gold. I look forward to your Leather Tip Tuesday every week. Please keep them coming.
I'm not as experienced as you, but after 9 years of doing this as a hobby, I concur with your observations and advice in this and other videos you've posted. Of course, re-wetting too much or too often can affect the quality of the carving you've already done. It's kind of like choosing between two evils. I may have missed something, but it's also critical to reapply water to the entire (tooled and untooled) piece to avoid shading differences, right? Great video!
Absolutely Brian. I may have failed to mention that but yes, re wetting partially can create water stains when it dries.
@@joemeling3216 Can where the piece is cut from affect all the tooling issues as in how it takes moisture and tools? As in the 9-11oz cut from the butt or shoulder. I can't get any decent results from a natural HO sides that wasn't split. Are those areas denser than the middle or do you think it's something else. If I tried to put the water on with a sponge like that I wouldn't be able to do anything for hours. About 6 months old and kept out of sunlight.
I'm having problems with my leather moving around too much as I'm beveling - Is there a trick of the trade to prevent that?
I'm new to leatherworking and have just ordered my first "set" of tools. I put set in quotation marks as it's really just a bunch of starter tools to get the feel for working with leather. I mostly work with wood, building and restoring furniture, so I know that getting the feel for what it's like working with a new material, is vital to your success working with said material and in my field of work, we both touch, watch, listens to and smell the wood, to notice everything we wish to know, although smelling it is primarily used to distinguish wood species as wood smells different from species to species.
I looked up this question too, as I was curious about how long the leather stays wet after casing it and I am pleased to see that it happily absorbs water, but only slowly lets it go. That makes my ideas a heck of a lot easier and I now have the idea of using technology to cool down the surface the cased leather rests on, while increasing the humidity in the workspace volume, as that should help in slowing the evaporation drastically. Then, once the work is done, it should be possible to first lower the humidity and then slowly increase the temperature, so the leather can dry out at the exact right speed it needs to. It will of course vary from piece to piece (just like with wood), but it should be possible to establish overall temperature and humidity preferations depending on the properties of the leather.
Thanks! Now I understand where some of my first forays have been going wrong. :)
Most of us aren’t using Herman Oak, I think that’s a big difference if you have a cheaper piece of scrap.
I totally agree with you here. The quality of leather is a major part in how well it tools, how long it holds moisture, and burnish. Once I got my first side of Hermann Oak I found out. Not in just one aspect, but in every single aspect. Swivel knife, stamping, carving, cutting, how well it takes dye... you mame it. I was completely shocked at the difference. Even with the best Tandy offers, HO is far better