Heating Creasing irons

[McJeep]

I use a Heat Gun to heat up my edge Bevelers. and i like the dark burnish i get from it....

Does it make the burnishing any smoother when heated? I usually play with speed/pressure of the dremel (how i burnish) when burnishing. More to get the smoothness than colour as all o my stuff is blllllllack at this stage ;0)

[UKRay]

The old harness maker who taught me had a small cast iron gas ring connected to a gas bottle that was always burning in the workshop. It was used to melt beeswax, glue, heat creasers and make gallons of tea. I have been looking for one for the past four years and can't find one anywhere. A real relic of the past.

The thing that made this stove particularly good for heating creasers was a kind of rack designed to hold the pot or kettle away from the flame to get maximum heat. By resting the wooden handle on the bech and the metal shaft on the rack the 'head' of the tool was right in the hottest part of the flame and heated up very quickly indeed.

We used to crease all our straps very hard. The idea was that compressing the leather fibres close to the edge of the strap stiffened the strap slightly - think about the effect of welding a couple of strips of channel section steel to a sheet of tin. It added a nice 'feel' to the leather and also helped to keep the new strap rigid as it was fed through a buckle. Sure the effect didn't last long but I always thought it made our new harness feel rather special and somehow emphasized the 'new' factor.

Ray

[Aart]

So, Hi, Back in town again,

Thank you Celtic leather, Luke and Gary.

I think I'll go for the hot plate

Best regards

Aart.

[MADMAX22]

Wonder why they dont make one like a soldering iron, plug it in and it would go to a predetermined temperature and you would be good to go.

Im sure the electricians around here if there are any could come up with a simple solution.

[Mick]

Wonder why they dont make one like a soldering iron, plug it in and it would go to a predetermined temperature and you would be good to go.

Im sure the electricians around here if there are any could come up with a simple solution.

It'd be easy and cheap to use a light dimming device, rotary probably easiest, to control the heat of a soldering iron or woodburner. sure, you'd have to play around with it at first to find the right temp, but scribe a line with a sharpie when you've found the right setting...

a slightly more interesing idea would be to use a electric stove burner control, it'd be a lot more heavy duty...not that you'd need that for a 40 watt soldering iron!

[BIGGUNDOCTOR]

The old harness maker who taught me had a small cast iron gas ring connected to a gas bottle that was always burning in the workshop. It was used to melt beeswax, glue, heat creasers and make gallons of tea. I have been looking for one for the past four years and can't find one anywhere. A real relic of the past.

The thing that made this stove particularly good for heating creasers was a kind of rack designed to hold the pot or kettle away from the flame to get maximum heat. By resting the wooden handle on the bech and the metal shaft on the rack the 'head' of the tool was right in the hottest part of the flame and heated up very quickly indeed.

We used to crease all our straps very hard. The idea was that compressing the leather fibres close to the edge of the strap stiffened the strap slightly - think about the effect of welding a couple of strips of channel section steel to a sheet of tin. It added a nice 'feel' to the leather and also helped to keep the new strap rigid as it was fed through a buckle. Sure the effect didn't last long but I always thought it made our new harness feel rather special and somehow emphasized the 'new' factor.

Ray

Over here in the States we have burners like that on the large propane camp stoves (not the Coleman camp stoves). I have a double burner on mine, but I have seen singles, as well as just the burners for sale. Another source may be a propane convection shop heater. I have one that goes from 75,000-200,000 BTU's, just one large ring burner.