Information On Stainless Steel Lacing

[FatSmitty]

Hello!

I'm interested on learing how to lace with stainless steel lacing, I have searched the forum with the search feature on stainless steel lacing and I have only come up with posts on suppliers. Is this called something other than stainless still lacing? I want to learn how to lace with the metal lace such as you see on saddle cantles and on belts. Any info on books or how to posts would be greatly appreaciated. Or if I need to look for another term other than stainless steal lacing.

Thanks in advance,

Nevada

[MartyS]

Hello!

I'm interested on learing how to lace with stainless steel lacing, I have searched the forum with the search feature on stainless steel lacing and I have only come up with posts on suppliers. Is this called something other than stainless still lacing? I want to learn how to lace with the metal lace such as you see on saddle cantles and on belts. Any info on books or how to posts would be greatly appreaciated. Or if I need to look for another term other than stainless steal lacing.

Thanks in advance,

Nevada

Stainless is usually very hard and work hardens very quickly. Copper wire can be had cheap form any metals recycler. They have a wire stripper that strips off the insulation. Copper is very soft and would be easy to learn on. Nickel silver which is silver colored and contains maybe 60% copper and 30% nickel, can be polished.

To make stainless softer it can be annealed, but every alloy is different.

cheers m