Clock Face Leather Thickness Help

[Northmount]

I have placed the tooled leather on a flat clean surface, face down. Then covered it with a towel, or paper towel and placed a weight on top. The surface you place it on must be smooth, else it will transfer the irregularities to the leather. People have laid it on paper towel and then wondered where the funny pattern came from.

You'll have to remove your backing material first as it needs to dry from the back.

Tom

[retiredff]

how much weight? And if it's as large as the leather will that slow the drying?

Thanks for another option -

Tony

[Northmount]

Needs to be the same size as the leather or larger. 3/4" plywood likely has enough weight by itself. You don't want to squash your tooling.

Yes it takes longer to dry, you can change the towel or paper towel every couple hours to help hurry it up, and inspect how it is drying.

Tom

[retiredff]

Thanks Tom.