Members oldtimer Posted November 1, 2011 Members Report Posted November 1, 2011 First fatal error!!!! I'd shoot myself in an inch, bloody idiot!!! It was probably inevitable that happened:deadsubject: It doesn't matter (or rather matter much! ), I have another piece of leather, we start again, but not now. Now just! I go to lunch Learning saddlemaking the hard way ! ( I have a seatleather, similar to yours, nailed to the wall in my shop as a reminder of "Measure twice - cut once!" but don´t tell anyone, pleeease!) / Knut Quote "The gun fight at the O.K. corral was actually started by two saddlemakers sitting around a bottle of whiskey talking about saddle fitting"...
Members GianniWest Posted November 1, 2011 Author Members Report Posted November 1, 2011 Thank you, friends, your words help me! In fact it was a stupid mistake due to hurry to go forward, I'd have to check before to cut. Good your idea oldtimer, I found an embellishment for a wall of my "hideout"!!! Now however we try to take the good from what happens: When I returned in the afternoon on the leather had formed mold This is very ugly! How can I avoid this? happened to you? I had kept approximately 5 minutes leather in water and then a night in a plastic bag You as you do? There are ways to avoid mold? Thank you very much friends, and sorry for my stupid questions and for my bad english Regards Gianni Quote www.gianniwest.com
Members Aurelie Posted November 2, 2011 Members Report Posted November 2, 2011 ( I have a seatleather, similar to yours, nailed to the wall in my shop as a reminder of "Measure twice - cut once!" but don´t tell anyone, pleeease!) / Knut AhAh! good one!!! i may hang it on my wall with my wrecked seat too! as for me i wrecked it on the "pulling " part , not the measurement......i do measure 3 or 4 times!!! maybe a psycho i am! Quote In for a penny, in for a pound....
Members Aurelie Posted November 2, 2011 Members Report Posted November 2, 2011 Thank you, friends, your words help me! In fact it was a stupid mistake due to hurry to go forward, I'd have to check before to cut. Good your idea oldtimer, I found an embellishment for a wall of my "hideout"!!! Now however we try to take the good from what happens: When I returned in the afternoon on the leather had formed mold This is very ugly! How can I avoid this? happened to you? I had kept approximately 5 minutes leather in water and then a night in a plastic bag You as you do? There are ways to avoid mold? Thank you very much friends, and sorry for my stupid questions and for my bad english Regards Gianni mold appeared within a few hours???? how weird! are you sure there was not mold in the 1st place on the leather? never heard of mold appearing so quickly....but i am kinda a greenhorn.... As for the "hurry" part => i ALWAYS remember what have been taught to me (and sure it's right) DO NOT HURRY WITH LEATHER OR YOU WILL GO DIRECTLY INTO A WRECK IF YOU START A BATTLE WITH LEATHER AND WANT TO HURRY => LEATHER WILL ALWAYS WIN .....and i hate when i lose :D and i do not go down without a good fight Hit once, hard and fast to make sure you win it Ahahaha :D When i wrecked my padded seat ...i let the saddle alone almost for 1 week.....while i was planning a nice strategy, thinking on the whys and hows it gone wrong...i asked questions around to make sure my "judgment" was good and then when i thought i had covered all possibilities...i went back to pulling my seat (after redoing it) and it went good and smoothly...even turned out very nice Quote In for a penny, in for a pound....
Members GianniWest Posted November 2, 2011 Author Members Report Posted November 2, 2011 Thanks Aurelie, but you think that the container used to soak the leather may be the cause of the mold? I used a different container for the seat cover Quote www.gianniwest.com
Members Aurelie Posted November 3, 2011 Members Report Posted November 3, 2011 don't know... you have to keep away from dust and anything metallic because contact with metal will leave nasty tiny black spots but those are not mold and you can remove with Oxalic acid regarding the "container" used to wet leather, back at saddle school we used to do it in an alumn sink = no troubles here at home i do it in a ceramic tub = no troubles i think i ve seen somewhere on this forum several posts about leather and mold the origins possible + the way to try to remove it search for them but i understood that the mold could "jump" and spread to your other hides in your stock so better be sure from where you got it! AhAh reminds me of a song parody i heard few days ago about mushrooms, mold and nasty things! Yuk! Good luck Gianni Quote In for a penny, in for a pound....
Members GianniWest Posted November 6, 2011 Author Members Report Posted November 6, 2011 I am quarreling with the cover seat! I am not a professional but a simple impassioned, I can devote to work the leather only in the weekend. I must say whether to build a saddle is difficult. It is even more it following a DVD in English without knowing the English. But I am stubborn, I don't release. At the end I will post the photo of my first saddle. Only some patience friends Quote www.gianniwest.com
Members Aurelie Posted November 7, 2011 Members Report Posted November 7, 2011 to pull the seat on is one of the most "tricky" and difficult part of saddle making along with the fork cover so, only advice i can tell you : do not rush measure several times cut when you're really sure that everything is ok and cross your fingers that no wrinkles appear when glueing it but the positive part : when you are at the stage of pulling on the seat => you are "almost" finished with your saddle! Quote In for a penny, in for a pound....
Members GianniWest Posted November 7, 2011 Author Members Report Posted November 7, 2011 Thanks Aurelie, I have tried with pieces of discard to cut the single parts... Next Sunday I will know if I have understood well Quote www.gianniwest.com
Members GianniWest Posted November 10, 2011 Author Members Report Posted November 10, 2011 Phew, that hard work!!!! Very very very difficult!!! Quote www.gianniwest.com
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.