Repairing A Stray Cut

[KB8UVM]

Here’s the story:

I was making a pistol holster and I needed to do some trimmingon the belt loop after everything was glued and stitched together. During thetrimming my knife tip got into some leather that I didn’t want to trim and nowI have a nice cut in the leather. Are there any tricks to filling the cut? I wasthinking about opening up the cut and dropping some glue into it but I washoping that there’s a better solution to this problem. The cut is under thebelt loop so it won’t be seen unless you go looking for it but it also willmake it harder to fix if possible. Since it’s on the back it won’t bother me tomuch if it doesn’t take dye do to the fix. The cut is deep enough that I feel that I have to do something to maintain strength.

Since it’s screwed up I’ll keep this holster for myself andmake another one for my friend.

Any suggestions?

[MADMAX22]

Thats what I did with my recent holster I made. Spread the cut and put a thin coat of contact cement in there, let it tack up and then work the cut back together.

You can still see the cut line but overall it doesnt look that bad, not something I would sell but for personal use its just fine.

[pete]

you can also skive the flesh side a bit and barge a "patch" flesh to flesh. That should do it and cover up the nick of you butt it up really well

pete

[KB8UVM]

Thanks for the info.

Madmax22, looks I was thinking along the same lines as you, i'll give that a try.

Pete thanks for the info and I'll have to keep that in mind for if this happens again and is in a more accessible place. With this holster it's under the belt loop and I can't get into it to skive it.

I'm waiting for the glue to dry now.