Finishing Edges

[Danne]

On 6/25/2018 at 12:08 AM, kyrrk said:

Hello. I have been trying to coat edged of my card holder made with chrome tanned, it seemes to look well until when I folded it and put in my back pocket, the time I took it out, some edge coat stick to the other side of the holder. 

Did I applied coat too much? Tutorials on youtube doesnt seem to work for me..

 

I never had any problems with edge paint. And in basic, this is what I do.

1. cut/sand edge, bevel, crease.

2. Paint edge.

3. Heat paint with heated creaser (electric or manual) or with friction (canvas)

4. sand edge with 400 grit, until perfectly flat.

5. Paint edge

6. Sand with 400 grit, until perfectly flat.

7. Proceed painting and sanding until you have a perfect edge.

8. Finish with 800 grit (or higher if you like)

9. Melt Paraffin (or beeswax) onto the edge. (Use electric creaser or heated creaser if you have.)

10. Burnish the edge with canvas.

11. Finished.

 

You see examples of my edges if you look through my posts (For example the dark brown wallet)

 

 

[Thumper392]

Thanks for the great article, Bob.

[Jerrymi]

Call me stupid the link will not work nor can i find the tips and tricks section..please help

[Mattsbagger]

On 2/15/2019 at 9:58 AM, AltaAndina said:

Hi All, 

Very interested in the topic of burnishing in general. Right now we use a basic wheel sander to apply a natural beeswax to our edges. 

Has anyone worked on a natural burnishing process? @hidepounder I am curious about your use of canvas as the application. Is the canvas waxed with anything first? 

What does wetting the leather edges do to help the burnishing process? 

Thanks so much for sharing the write up

You have to wet edge on veg tan. Or you can’t burnish.

[HondoMan]

On 3/6/2019 at 1:47 PM, Jerrymi said:

Call me stupid the link will not work nor can i find the tips and tricks section..please help

https://leatherworker.net/edging.htm

[alpha2]

The link works for me. At the very top of the "how do I do that" page, the first link is to hidepounder's posts. 

Edited March 11, 2019 by alpha2

[kyrrk]

On 2/23/2019 at 9:22 PM, Danne said:

 

I never had any problems with edge paint. And in basic, this is what I do.

1. cut/sand edge, bevel, crease.

2. Paint edge.

3. Heat paint with heated creaser (electric or manual) or with friction (canvas)

4. sand edge with 400 grit, until perfectly flat.

5. Paint edge

6. Sand with 400 grit, until perfectly flat.

7. Proceed painting and sanding until you have a perfect edge.

8. Finish with 800 grit (or higher if you like)

9. Melt Paraffin (or beeswax) onto the edge. (Use electric creaser or heated creaser if you have.)

10. Burnish the edge with canvas.

11. Finished.

 

You see examples of my edges if you look through my posts (For example the dark brown wallet)

 

 

thank you for the tip. I think my problem is the paint itself. 

[NWBicketLeatherCollc]

On 7/23/2009 at 6:41 PM, hidepounder said:

Hello everybody,

I receive quite a few PM's and emails requesting information on edges, finger cutting, tooling patterns and various other topics. Questions regarding some of these topics come up on a fairly regular basis, so I thought I would put something together that members could easily refer to. This article describes the way I finish edges and Johanna has posted it in the "Tips & Tricks" section on the main page. I hope that some of you will find it helpful.

Finishing Edges

Bob

Anyone else having difficulties opening the link? It takes me to a "Sorry we could not load this page."

Edited December 30, 2019 by NWBicketLeatherCollc

[fredk]

After 10 years its probably been archived or culled

[JShapiro]

The link does not work for me. Neither do a number of the other pinned tutorials at the top of the front page of this forum. I sent a message to the admin a few days ago informing them of this.