Cotton Swab,s They Don't Hold Up Like They Use Too..

[Wild Bill46]

Thanx Again, Bob -------------------- Wild Bill46

[Itch]

Guy's Thank you all for the replies.. My biggest trouble is when trying to put edge coat or dye on the inside of belt slots on High ride and pancake holsters.. Usually can get 1 or 2 nice clean swipes and then the swabs start to head South.. I will check on some small foam applicators.

[Wild Bill46]

In an admittedly clumsy attempt to help you, maybe you could use Bob's idea with wool felt,

In a fashon simular to using a patch, in gun barrel cleaning ?

Just a thought, maybe it'll help ? ---------------------- Wild Bill46

[biglew]

I needed something small to dye the inside of a punched hole. q tips were to big so pulled a piece of cotton off of a cotton ball and wrapped it around a round wood toothpick. it worked great. I have tried it on a number of different applicators from sharpened pencils to chop stix from panda express. I like the chop stix best as they are flexible and strong and you can always break or sliver a piece off for smaller applications. haven't used q tips since. A bag of cotton balls last a long time and can be used for other things. Also have one of the stainless applicators that jreeser1 is using. that works well to,haven't tried it on glue but sounds like it would work well. Jim

I paint very small leather edges with a 1mm awl and also use the blue gluing tools from rockler to paint edges

[Basically Bob]

I have found that a tiny rat tail file will give me the cleanest lines without a mess.
Just dip the end into a dye bottle - the grooves on the file pick up the dye and when you slide and twist the file into the hole or slot, it releases the dye. The only downside is that unlike an absorbant Qtip you have to reload it several times for something like a belt slot.

Might be worthwhile trying it.

Here's a pic.

Sorry about the duplicate ... Shouldn't post anything before I have had my morning coffee

Edit Fixed it for you. Tom