Dragonfly

Thanks for the reply buddy. I really appreciate any and all help. The leather I use for 95% of my projects is 8-10 oz. skirting. Its usually around 1/8"-3/16" thick. I agree, the tandy rivets seems to be better and these OTB rivets stink. I am so fed up with both though that I am thinking about ditching the idea of rivets all together and just sewing right up to the top on everything. Thanks again for your insight, surprized no-one else chimmed in on this topic. ----Jason

what are you folks using to pre-punch your holes for the jiffy rivets and does it matter if the rivet cap is on the face or should the rivet cap be on the back? do you drill it or is there a special punch? Thanks---Jason

When using the double domed cap jiffy rivets(from OTB) how do you choose or know what the correct length rivet is for thickness of leather? I have heard your post should extend 1/16" more than the thickness of leathers and I have heard 1/8" more than thickness. I have tried both measurement rules and still not happy with results. Maybe its my compression depth thats not correct. How far must I compress the rivets for proper set/hold? Just to the top of the leather or deeper into the leather compressing the leather some. (EXAMPLE)- 1/4" leather thickness, should I use a 5/16" rivet post length and compress only to1/4" or compress further? Or should I use a 1/4" rivet on 1/4" leather thickness? I have no idea and I am wasting rivets and leather. I am trying to properly rivet two pieces of leather together that are each 8-10 oz.weight, the total thickness of leather is roughly 1/4"-5/16" thick... should I use 1/4" or 5/16" post length rivet or what? And how far do I compress the rivets? Hope I make sense. This rivet setting, (as small of a step as it is), is getting on my nerves... its sometimes ruining my projects. I have noticed even using my rivet setting machine that sometimes the rivets bend or appear slanted(maybe compressing too far but if I don't compress far enough they don't hold well. Maybe its just using too long a rivet?), There has to be an easy formula or procedure to do this right. So that the rivets hold well, finish out straight and look good. PLEASE, PLEASE HELP. I appreciate it a lot. I really like the look of jiffy rivets and already have a mess that I want to use. I have tried tubular and others but don't like the look.---Jason

Hello all, I just joined here and wanted to take a moment to intoduce myself. My name is Jason and I am from the farm country of North Western PA. I am a passionate bow hunter and turkey hunter. Much of my time while not working and hunting is spent doing and learning art such as relief carving, scrimshawing, pen & ink drawing to learning leather. I am relatively new to leather craft but can assure you its in my blood for life. I look very forward to learning as much as I can and sharing with you all what I already know. Anyways...Hello.----Jason Shaffer "Dragonfly"

Hello, I am a new member here but have read and researched this forum for a while. My fiance Ms. Dragonfly joined also not long ago...great forum. Anyways...I am trying to learn how to mold my leather to form fit shapes for different style of holsters ranging from cell phone and knife cases to fishing rod tubes and revolvers. My question is this: "How do I mold my cased leather to form around the bottom edge of a round shape like a snuff can?" The snuff can shape is 1" thick by 4" in diameter. Imagine sliding a snuff can of this size down inside a holster. I want the bottom of the holster to be formed/molded neatly to the round snuff can. Do I make sense? The holster would consist of the "molded front" sewn to the "flat back". Any help on this is much appreciated. I need to learn as I have a project where I am gonna have to make several of these for clients in this manner. I have researched the web for many, many hours for tutorials demonstrating this molding stuuf and have come up empty. Thank you in advance for any help and I look forward to becoming an active part of this forum. Have a great day.----Jason