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Has anyone use a tool, or made a jig, for cutting leather circles but with beveled edges? I've read the existing thread about cutting circles: good info and helpful pointers to tools. But I'm making leather cup, from Stohman's "The Art of Hand..." photo attached and I'm have trouble getting accurate circular bevel cuts. Thanks.

I'm using (the old) Tandy Bag Stiffener R688 for small project, making a coin purse. I need to sandwich stiffener between flesh side of chromed tanned leather and flesh side of deer skin liner. I've read the posts "gluing large pieces of stiffener" and it's a great help. The liner is smaller in area than leather and liner. I end up with about 3/8" border all around the stiffener. So the gluing surfaces are stiffener-leather and leather-leather. Questions: Do I try to glue all three pieces in one operation or first glue stiffener to one side or the other? Can I use the same glue (cement) for the stiffener-flesh surface as for the leather-leather?

That glue bottle with roller looks great, thanks for the tip. Which brand of water-based leather glue do you use?

I'm also in SoCal. From Amazon I bought Barge Contact Cement, and thinner. Barge was specifically recommended by Springfield Leather in a helpful tutorial video

That one phrase "make the 'cut' look go away" is the most helpful guidance I've read re leatherworking, including the Stohlman books. Thanks for that, exactly expresses something I didn't know.

Those mason jar sleeves are outstanding; really nice job. I'm grateful you shared because I was stumped making sleeves for mason jars I have because they are not perfectly round. Your design very neatly accommodates their shape.

When joining the two ends of a single piece of leather wrapped around a circular form, should the ends be cut at 90-deg or should they be beveled a bit? I'm making a simple leather cup (Stohlman's "The Art of Hand Sewing Leather" pg. 30). Cup dimensions are 5" height, 3 1/4" diameter. I cut a piece of 3/16" latigo leather to 5" x 10 3/4" and am trimming it down to fit the form--a piece of PVC pipe. I'm using Barge contact cement then stitching. On previous attempt the edges did not quite fit together perfectly. There was a bit of a gap. I had cut the pattern out with a circular cutter, straight down. But now I'm thinking the end cuts need to be at a slight bevel. Has anyone had this experience when joining leather on a circular form?

That's a great looking holster; I like the border pattern.