Leaned Something 'cause I Messed Up!

[pete]

Had an order for 2 more album covers for a Texas white tail ranch. He really wanted the dates on the spine. I finished the tooling - admired my work , and proceeded to oil it with Neat's.

Took a look at it and realized that I hadn't traced OR tooled the date!

Fortunately(I think) that this really poor piece of Tandy leather(which I cased all night and STILL dried out after 10 minutes!!!@#$(*&^#) soaked up the oil but not so much that I couldn't bare down on the stylus and even harder on the swivel. Got it done though!

I guess you CAN tool oiled leather!!

Also- for you that haven't lined many projects- I had the Chan Geer dvd that showed him lining 1/2 of a day -planner (after glueing the entire thing) bending it slightly, and pushing the thin liner against the 2nd half, opening it up and smoothing out the wrinkles.

I have always done it that way until this one. I glued the spine only along with the lining, centered them and tacked them together. Then I did the left half and then the right, stretching the lining as I went. No center wrinkles to fight.Just a thought

pete