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Attaching Leather To Wood. Smooth the leather and trim excesses. If you glue it, then you will have a hard time replacing it should the need arise, quote.
Never had the bond fail and i always put at least 2 coats of glue on both surfaces. What i would do is to wet form a piece of veg tan 8/9 oz around your jaws. That is seemingly a small piece of wood to attach a rather much larger piece of leather.
Now, cut the excess with a pair of scissors if the leather sticks out of the wood. What i would do is to wet form a piece of veg tan 8/9 oz around your jaws. Use a clamp and piece of wood to hold it in place.
The contact area will be pretty minimal. The curved strip is be 1/2 by 6, and the piece of leather is 6x6. Gluing leather to wood step 1:
I was considering either liquid hide glue or epoxy. Smooth the leather and trim excesses. Apply cement glue to the leather.
With a flat putty knife, kindly work on smoothing the leather to remove unwanted creases and wrinkles that may occur. Apply a single layer of contact cement to the side of the leather that. Glance across the bonded piece, and check if the attached leather extends beyond the wood surface.
Like dan, i have always used contact cement to glue leather faces to mallets i have made. Never had the bond fail and i always put at least 2 coats of glue on both surfaces. Once the leather is dry and formed to the jaw, you can remove the clamps then just tack it in place.
