Dear Hivemind,
I'm currently making a combined wooden and leather sheath for a scandi type knife I bought on BB early last year. I've got the wood part done beautifully if I say so myself and I know pretty much how I want the leather part that covers the handle to look, but I also want to wet form it for that "snap lock" fitting.
However I'm left with a problem. If I'm wet forming it around the handle how do I glue it to the wooden part of the sheath?
Is there a glue that would work on wet leather and still set? The last thing I need is for the wooden end to fall off one day while I'm carrying it on my belt.
So I'm left with two choices:
Glue the dry leather to the wooden sheath wait till it's dried then soak the leather and wet form it about the knife handle and hope the glue stays tight on the wooden sheath part.
Or
Should I wet form it around the wooden sheath and handle (suitably covered in clingfilm of course) let the whole thing dry and then glue it into place?
Anyway, any tips you can suggest would be most helpful.
Also, I read someplace that if you add baking soda to the water when soaking the leather it eventually drys much harder than it was originally. Is that correct or am I mis-remembering? Would force drying it on a radiator give me the same results?
Ta muchly.
I'm currently making a combined wooden and leather sheath for a scandi type knife I bought on BB early last year. I've got the wood part done beautifully if I say so myself and I know pretty much how I want the leather part that covers the handle to look, but I also want to wet form it for that "snap lock" fitting.
However I'm left with a problem. If I'm wet forming it around the handle how do I glue it to the wooden part of the sheath?
Is there a glue that would work on wet leather and still set? The last thing I need is for the wooden end to fall off one day while I'm carrying it on my belt.
So I'm left with two choices:
Glue the dry leather to the wooden sheath wait till it's dried then soak the leather and wet form it about the knife handle and hope the glue stays tight on the wooden sheath part.
Or
Should I wet form it around the wooden sheath and handle (suitably covered in clingfilm of course) let the whole thing dry and then glue it into place?
Anyway, any tips you can suggest would be most helpful.
Also, I read someplace that if you add baking soda to the water when soaking the leather it eventually drys much harder than it was originally. Is that correct or am I mis-remembering? Would force drying it on a radiator give me the same results?
Ta muchly.