carsonauto

I know Ian Atkinson talks about putting it in the oven @ ~50C for 10-30 minutes immediately after wet-forming. I've done that one a few times (with the leather tacked to a piece of wood), I just put it in the toaster oven @~50C for 10 minutes, I'd take it out and re-do some of the forming--just to get really crisp lines. Then put it back in for another 20 minutes or so. I just did it until the leather was completely dry and took it out (so that I wasn't actually baking the dry leather) I suppose in that case, like anything else--you just need to keep a close eye on it. Anyways, it worked beautifully. Everything I've done this to turned out really quite stiff and strong. In a pinch, I've used a heat-gun to do the same thing. Just my experience, but I'd be interested in learning about boiling it too. Following his video quite closely, I was able to make this my first time: And the leather is remarkably hard.