leatherman1457 Posted January 3, 2010 Report Posted January 3, 2010 As stated in the third sentence of my first reply. It is ruined.no good, bad leather, worthless. no good for caca. land fill material,trash, not fixable,use another piece of leather. Can't get much clearer then that. You have ruined the leather ,it can not be used for this project. Get another piece and start over, When you do start over,case you leather with just cold tap water. soak it till it quite bubbling if you wish. put it in a bag and let it case(suck in the water that you put on the leather to a cellular level) and then go from there. If you have any more questions please ask but as for the leather Quote If you can conceive it, you can achieve it. visit my web site www.leathertools4u.com "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Ambassador abn Posted January 4, 2010 Ambassador Report Posted January 4, 2010 Idahotim, if it's any consolation, I think most of us here have thrown out more leather than we care to admit. Natural materials have their own peculiar temperaments, and sometimes react in strange ways to techiques we think are common sense. Stick with it... Your next try will turn out better! Quote
Members Idahotim Posted January 5, 2010 Author Members Report Posted January 5, 2010 As stated in the third sentence of my first reply. It is ruined.no good, bad leather, worthless. no good for caca. land fill material,trash, not fixable,use another piece of leather. Can't get much clearer then that. You have ruined the leather ,it can not be used for this project. Get another piece and start over, When you do start over,case you leather with just cold tap water. soak it till it quite bubbling if you wish. put it in a bag and let it case(suck in the water that you put on the leather to a cellular level) and then go from there. If you have any more questions please ask but as for the leather Are you sure? Maybe if I........... Just kidding, I get it. That holster is now just a deformed chunk laying on the back edge of the work bench. I sure appriciate all your support folks. I am going to try again. I'll try and post a pic or two when I get a chance to build it. Quote
Members Reaper Posted September 5, 2010 Members Report Posted September 5, 2010 If not I will have to find someone with a little bitty automatic possibly with a bent barrel who needs a holster. HAH! I like you already... Quote No sir, he fell into that bullet
Jaymack Posted September 5, 2010 Report Posted September 5, 2010 I've only been working with leather for only 6 months, but I'll share a similar story. Being the patient person that I am, I set a piece of leather on a metal framing square above my woodburning fireplace to speed up the drying process when I was casing the leather for carving. A couple of minutes later, I picked up the leather and discovered that I had permanently burned the leather with the inches scale from the framing square. This is when I realized that as tough as leather is, it's still just cow skin and reacts accordingly. John Quote
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