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Thanks again fredk. This forum is a great help. Carolyn

fredk, Would you suggest cutting out the dried glue that's in there after prying it open?

Thank you very much for your responses. Makes me feel that it's not a total loss I will try your suggestions!

Hi, I'm a newbie, and I've just about completed a project that took quite a long time, but I had some problems with the gluing part. There are gaps in some places on the edges, where the skiving wasn't exactly even, or my gluing wasn't right, and in one place that I had to add a filler piece. Here are the problem patches: Is there a way to fix this? Some way to fill in the gaps that can be sanded? Thanks, Carolyn

Thanks Tom! I'll be sure to remember in the future to oil from the backside on these heavily tooled areas. Thanks for your comment, it's very encouraging!

Thanks very much HS. Your reply is a really a relief for me because it sounds like maybe it's not all lost. So that's what I'll do, I'll leave it for a while to see if it soaks in and if not, I'll try the antiquing. And thanks for noticing the tooling!

Hello All, I could sure use your help. I just furnished this tooling for a handbag, and decided to oil the leather as it seemed kind of dry. One side of the bag reacted fine, but in the other side parts of the tooled areas remained dark and ugly. It's been around 15 hours.since I oiled it and although the stains seem slightly lighter I'm in a panic because this represents a lot of work for me (I'm new to this) and I really would prefer not to have to redo it, if at all possible. This back is supposed to be natural leather color, but worse comes worse could I dye it? Would that camouflage the stains? If anyone has any suggestions I'd REALLY appreciate it. This is the stained side: and this is the other side that's more or less ok. Thanks, Carolyn