Thickest leather

[garypl]

3 hours ago, Sheilajeanne said:

My dad was a public school principal. He kept one strap in his desk at school for official use, and one in his desk at home. I never got strapped at school, but I got to feel the one he kept at home more that a few times! He never hit you very hard, though!

Back in the 1950’s my dad kept a razor strop on a nail in the back of a door.  It was two pieces - a piece of leather that was probably 11-12 oz sandwiched with a piece of heavy canvas. As I recall, it was @3” x 16” and had a swivel snap on the end.  I only remember being swatted with it once - after that, if I was crossing the line too far, all he had to do was get the strap off the hook and at the sound of that swivel hardware rattling as it came off the nail, I immediately would stop misbehaving!  I would not use this today, but it taught me to respect authority, something many kids today could use some lessons on.

[Jake907]

@nstarleather @KittenThrasher hey I finally got a picture of that leather with a thickness gauge on it, its not as thick as I remember it being, but still some thick ass leather. If I'm reading the instrument correctly its around 36oz, and he said he got it in a bag of scraps on ebay, and claims its water buffalo. sorry for the poor quality of the picture.

[olfart]

On 1/21/2018 at 2:46 PM, Sheilajeanne said:

Notice my use of the past tense. Us old farts remember it well, though. 

Hey!  I resemble that remark!  Our gym teacher in junior high school used his size 12 tennis shoe to motivate us up the rope.  If we didn't touch the knot at the top, he'd send us back up with a swat from that shoe.  At home, though, my dad wore out most of a hackberry tree on me over the years.

[olfart]

On 1/21/2018 at 4:49 PM, fredk said:

Not too long ago I was walking in the Highlands. I heard a farmer shouting. I think he was a Rolling Stones fan but he couldn't get the lyrics of a song quite right. He was shouting; "Hey, M' Cloud, get off my you"

Hmmm... I think he probably said "ewe". 

[alpha2]

You sure that wasn't Wyoming? "Honest to God! I was just helping that sheep out of the fence!"

 

(Sorry, Colorado joke)

[chrisash]

When a new sailor joined the home fleet in Scapa Flow a remote anchorage in the Orkneys, on first run ashore he asked his mate why the rush up the hill towards some sheep

His mate answered

"You don't want to get the ugly one do you"

[bullmoosepaddles]

Does anyone know of a source where extra thick hides are available on a regular basis?

[bullmoosepaddles]

@ nstarleather Thank you kindly. I will do that. I have asked my normal supplier. They say 15/16 oz is as thick as they can get. Having read that the tannery splits the leather to a uniform thickness makes a great deal of sense as to why. I did not think all cows grew the same thickness hides.  

 

[JerseyFirefighter]

Ive had some sections of 14/16 saddle skirting go up to about 26+oz in certain spots. a few square ft worth along the side. Which for me made it useless for needing 14-16. I was eyeing up a motorized skiver once I can add some more sq ft to my shop. Wonder if it could handle starting at that thickness. 

[BDAZ]

On 1/21/2018 at 3:23 PM, Matt S said:

It's from a Scotland of the past -- when the men were men and the sheep ran scared.

Only the pretty ones...