Wet forming English Bridle leather

[Arturo]

Ya'll:

Wil English Bridle leather wet form like tooling leather?

Arturo

[oldtimer]

English bridle leather is stuffed full of different kinds of grease and oils and is very resistant to water in comparison to tooling leather. By that reason you can´t wet form it like tooling leather. That´s my experience.

/ Knut

Edited February 9, 2009 by oldtimer

[Arturo]

Oldtimer:

Thanks for the reply. I figured that to be the case but was not sure since it is vegtable tanned.

Art

[gary]

Art,

It can be done. It takes a while to get it wet and then it needs to be left to case (I use a plastic bag).

I've moulded pouches from it and it can take some time to get the shape.

Also, it has a tendency to affect the colour, particularly if you don't wet all of it.

Try it on a few scraps and you'll feel/see the difference.

Gary