Rattlesnake

Servus! Living in Germany for 11+ years has advantages, like bilingualism. What would you like to know from the website?

Servus! I've had very good experience in soaking the leather and then putting it in the oven at a low temp. The advantage of this is that the temp is far easier to control than water on the stove and you can easily take things our and reshape as time goes on. The effect - driving out the tannins - is the same A really great tutorial could be found at the House of the Wolf website but he's gone out of business and no longer maintains the site. I have a copy of this on my drive - I'll ask Dan if I can reprint it here.

Servus! Wow, what a great resource! Shame that I didn't think to look for something like this earlier - some of my less-than-stellar projects wouldn't have become studies in how NOT to do things! Anyway, my name is Jake, I've been living in Germany for the last 11 yeas now and have gotten interested in leatherwork from my connection to the SCA. Most likely you'll see my posts over in the Historical Reenactment when I'm not asking newbie questions everywhere else. Strangely enough, I actually know someone here - MikeDB - from the britishblades forum! Nice guy, very helpful. I hope that everyone here is like that! Glad to be here and I hope I can learn something from you all!