Kangaroo Lace - Color Bleeding

[Tracym]

I received some lace from y-knot - it seems to be very nice, thin and soft.

So please forgive the beginner questions, but using Pecard's to dress the leather and Fiebing's acrylic resolene to seal it, is the right order to do things?

Dress it with Pecard's (instead of the Lexol that I have been using)

Stretch it

Bevel it

Seal with Fiebing's

? braiding soap here? White saddle soap... or more Pecard's?

Braid it

Rolling

Final finish coat if necessary (I have a glossy spray, protectant, from Tandy I've been using)

I'm happy to read up on this, or buy another book, if anyone can recommend anything. I have Bruce Grant's encyclopedia, but that doesn't really seem to address this sort of thing, with the kangaroo lace.

[Kiscien]

The order you showed is the order I do.

About Pecard or saddle soap. Some makers use pecard some use saddle soap. I didn't use Pecard or soap sold in US so I don't know.

Ron Edwards - How to Make Whips. There You have everything you want about plaiting whips.

[Tracym]

Thank you so much. I am making dog leads, not whips, but I presume the techniques would be the same?

I also saw a book online "Braiding Fine Leather: Techniques of the Australian Whipmakers" by David W Morgan - does anyone recommend that one?

Edited August 16, 2012 by Tracym

[Tracym]

I've applied the Resolene - I did dilute it. My leather now feels quite stiff and a little tacky though - I'm hoping it just isn't all the way dry yet, and that the Pecards will help. Does that sound right?

[acox4t4]

Whow its not sounding like Roo leather to me, I've never bought any roo that was Thick? I've had some that was kinda frizzy on one side to where I took the advice of someone here to put the roo in Keroseen gas (spelling way off sorry) along with a stick of cooking wax chopped up in the gas. Put mixture in a stainless steel container large enough for the roo then to be soaked in it for a few minutes, pull the roo out and let it dry. This is of course all done outside. Once dry It no longer had the frizzy's on the one side and I was able to bevel it, the mixture made it very usable where I like you was wasting it all trying to bevel with the frizzy's. So if that someone is still reading these post, I hope that I gave the right directions on how to rid the frizzy's if anyone sees that I made a mistake on it please correct me since its been awhile since I did it.

[Tracym]

Thank you. I've got some from y-knot lace, and it's thin and nice. I do have a bit of the thick stuff left though.

I do hope that the lace treated with the resolene softens up though, if feels pretty unpleasant so far. Hopefully my Pecard's will arrive in the mail today.

[Art]

I just use Pecard's, no resolene, I might consider resolene after plaiting if I needed a shiney finish, but that's not me.

Art

[Tracym]

Do you think the Pecards would keep the color from bleeding though? I only used the Resolene to try to seal the cut edges because the beveled edges were bleeding out onto the light colored lace on the same braid.

[Art]

Try it.

[Tracym]

The lead with the resolene came out fine in the end. I did have to do some more conditioning and quite a bit of rolling, but it seems like that stopped the color bleeding. I haven't been brave enough to make one with a real light color yet, but it looks good so far.