Edging Kydex

[olliesrevenge]

I hope I don't get branded as a heretic for asking this on a leather forum, but I know some of you pro holster makers use kydex in some of your designs.

How do you achieve that nice smooth, rounded, & "burnished" looking edge on Kydex that I see on some of the stuff I've bought from the pro's

My brainstorm is to take a dowel with a concave groove cut around it (like for leather burnishing), but somehow attach fine sandpaper into the groove, and then spin it on a drill press. I can't figure out how to glue sandpaper into a circumferential groove without it getting boogered up though.

[woolfe]

I hope I don't get branded as a heretic for asking this on a leather forum, but I know some of you pro holster makers use kydex in some of your designs.

How do you achieve that nice smooth, rounded, & "burnished" looking edge on Kydex that I see on some of the stuff I've bought from the pro's

My brainstorm is to take a dowel with a concave groove cut around it (like for leather burnishing), but somehow attach fine sandpaper into the groove, and then spin it on a drill press. I can't figure out how to glue sandpaper into a circumferential groove without it getting boogered up though.

Your idea is pretty much dead on, except I put a piece of denim on the dowl instead of sand paper. Here are the results of my method.

[olliesrevenge]

... I put a piece of denim on the dowl instead of sand paper.

Denim... I would not have thought of that.

Thank you sir!

Nice looking edges BTW, that is exactly what I'm after.

[Reaper]

agree with woolfe on that for sure, just like leather, heat is your friend on Kydex edges. 

[JoelR]

agree with woolfe on that for sure, just like leather, heat is your friend on Kydex edges. 

+1 I sand them round and then smooth them out with duck cloth.