Are you comfortable doing this work? Can you do it?
I'm reminded of what an artist once told me. She usually did very 'avant-garde' work but she also did pet portraits and people portraits etc which she was good at but hated doing. 'So why do you do them?' I asked 'They pay bills and pay for me to paint what I really like' was her answer
Put a thin piece of leather on the other side, a piece much bigger than the keeper. Hold it in place with a few stitches outside the damaged area. Then when attaching the new keeper sew through the canvas into the other leather piece. You'll be sewing leather to leather with the canvas sandwiched between
I know of the hand cleaner you write of, or at least a local version. It doesn't have pumice in it though but something else as grit. Although the grit can be felt on the hands its not serious enough to damage leather, unless you use a lot of it and really scrub it in.
I've used the hand cleaner to clean the insides of mugs of tea stains. Its less rougher than a pot scrubber
I would make a three-piece belt, with billets at each end that can be replaced. eg; a wide belt with bullet loops and then narrow billets sewn on which can be replaced, in this manner
Here. solid resin, in the form of small pieces is sold as 'resin' or 'rosin'. The term seems interchangeable but only for the solid form of pine resin. I've ordered 'resin' which is also described as ''rosin' and as 'colophony', yet another name given to the solid form of pine resin
Go for 'rosin'. Rosin has always been used on instrument stings and bows and as a powder to increase grip on playing/game surfaces and on bats & rackets; all that and more
They are the same, but rosin is dried into cakes but resin may still be liquid
yaaaay, I've found it! You'll never believe where it was. It was in my ready-use sewing kit. Who would have thunk it. I wonder who put it there?
Why is everyone, or nearly everyone, harping on about 'Mop & Glo'. I use it a lot BUT the chap says he doesn't want to use it and wont use it. Can we not try to compare other sealers that ARE available in the leather shop for him to try?
The chap does not want to use Mop & Go
Now, of the regular leather shop sealers which meets his needs?
tbh, all the ones I have dry matt or with a slight sheen, never a high gloss. It might be because I apply sealer diluted