Oops, Perhaps I Made A Small Error

[mlapaglia]

This started out as a molded belt holder for a M&P 9mm 17 round mag. It was sewn, died, edged, formed all I needed to do was bake it to dry it out a little and make it hard. 10 minutes at 135. just like always. Of course it was 2 layers of 3/4 ounce as it was just a pattern test. not the usual 8/9.

I think it got too warm.

O well thats why we have extra leather. I just had to share this.

Michael

[Luke Hatley]

Yep ....It'll happen ever Time..

[mlapaglia]

I should have said its also a new toaster oven. The old one was 20 years old and didnt heat well. This one actually hits the temps you dial in

[mncarpenter]

I hate it when that happens-i never put anything in to dry unless I'm in a hurry, I toasted a really nice holster that I was supposed to drop off the next day, try explaining to your customer that you burned up his holster...

[Eaglestroker]

Been there, had a thread about that. Recently while field trialing my new over creation I left it sitting a little to long. It was still a nice holster, so I antiqued the finish I usually wear my reminders.

[mlapaglia]

Been there, had a thread about that. Recently while field trialing my new over creation I left it sitting a little to long. It was still a nice holster, so I antiqued the finish I usually wear my reminders.

I remember that thread. In fact I thought of it when I saw the mess I had made. About all this one is good for it throwing at the racoons that go after my trash cans.

Michael

[Shooter McGavin]

Out of curiosity, what happens when you wet the leather?

One time I dipped a holster in boiling water. It shrunk up badly and turned hard as kydex lol.

[mlapaglia]

The side that is on the outside of the curl gets a little softer. The inside darker piece is, you you saw, Kydex in stiffness.

Michael

[malabar]

The side that is on the outside of the curl gets a little softer. The inside darker piece is, you you saw, Kydex in stiffness.

Michael

135 degrees should not have cause that kid of shrinkage. Either the little oven is WAY too hot (or the holster is too close to the heating element) or there is another factor involved. As shooter McGavin pointed out, casing water that it was too hot will do terrible things to holsters -- especially the magic leather-into-kydex trick.

tk

[mlapaglia]

ITs a new oven so it might be the preheat cycle is hotter. The only one never had that option. Plus I have never heated leather that thin before. No biggie. Just something I thought was funny when it came out.

[Leatherproducts]

Hi Veg leather burns or gets damaged over 78 deg c . So warm water like bath water temp. Can be used. As for drying leave it in the sun, or close to not on a heater to dry, remember it is SKIN.What can burn you can burn leather.Another thing, it is full of tanning acids so DO NOT leave your blued gun near or in it, it will rust quick and make the leather discolor.

Hi Veg leather burns or gets damaged over 78 deg c . So warm water like bath water temp. Can be used. As for drying leave it in the sun, or close to not on a heater to dry, remember it is SKIN.What can burn you can burn leather.Another thing, it is full of tanning acids so DO NOT leave your blued gun near or in it, it will rust quick and make the leather discolor.

[mdmorgan]

I use our clothes dryer. Works great.

[Dwight]

I once had a holster that was just a teeny-tad oversized for the 1911 that I carried at the time.

I thought I would just get it wet, . . . let it dry, . . . maybe it would "shrink".

Got it wet, . . . got impatient, . . . got in a hurry.

DID NOT KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING

Stuck it in the micro wave, . . .

When I took it out, . . . it looked more like a cud of chewing tobacco some cowboy had spit out on the sidewalk than a leather holster.

Uhhhh, . . . didn't do that one again.

May God bless,

Dwight