Smoothing flesh side

[Peter Ellis]

Okay, I'm ready for the heckling..

I've used a woodworking tool for that before. Sureform, I think is one name for it. It performs suprisingly well, and I've used it to uniformly reduce the thickness of some scrap before. It certainly isn't on par with a splitter, but, it'll do a good job of smoothing out the flesh side.

Not going to heckle, really, but.. Surform is a brand name. They make a variety of rasps and some other tools generally intended for forming wood. I can see where some of them might work on leather and might be useful for skiving where a bunch of leather needed to be removed. But from what I know of their tools, I can't imagine one that would be good for smoothing a surface.

Doesn't mean there aren't any, I don't pretend to know all of their tools.. but Surform isn't quite enough information for someone to find the right tool with.

[DelNeroDesigns]

Hi I've sanded the piece and then used a match or candle to burn off the fuzz then applied a heavy wax sealer.

[Chitin]

I use a liberal amount of gum tragacanth and my trusty edge slicker. Works great, I've gotten it so smooth it was hard to tell one side from t'other!