RE: [flasah] Casing
Dale, are you carving a huge project?
If not.... say something small like a wallet, and it is drying too fast....
I would say to check the humidity in your work area... might be way too dry.
Do you suffer from bloody noses while working?
If a wallet is drying too fast, I personally would start sooner.
My method, either with sponge or emersion, is to allow the original color to
come back, but it also depends on the original color to begin with. If it is
a darker color brown to start with, I have to do the feel and cheek test. I
feel it with my fingers, feels dry, I put it to my cheek, and it is moist
and cold (or cool depending on the working temp). I also look at the
backside (rough side) for splotching and what not.
A light tan, I allow it to get back to almost its original color... I still
look for over saturation, but it is usually good to go. When I get a new
hide and I cut something out, I cut a little extra and test it. I wet the
test piece as I do the other that I am going to carve on. When the test
piece and the carving piece get to the color I am looking for, I cut and
tool the test piece. This tells me if it is too wet or not. I can usually
gage the required time from that test.
-----Original Message-----
From: flasah@yahoogroups.
Dale Erwin
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:32 PM
To: flasah@yahoogroups.
Subject: [flasah] Casing
Not to beat a dead horse with this subject after the past furious
discussion, but I'm just wondering if I'm doing something wrong. It
seems that no matter which method I use to wet the leather (sponge,
submersing, even waiting for all the bubbles to stop) I'm having this
problem. Maybe it's just that I'm too slow, bit I don't think so.
After unwrapping my leather the next day, it usually takes a looooong
time for the natural color of the leather to return to the grain side.
Once it does, from this point on the drying process seems to shift into
high gear and it almost always dries quicker than I can finish the
tooling. I always wind up having to add moisture to finish.
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Dale Erwin
Av. Circunvalació
Los Girasoles de Huampaní
Lurigancho, Lima 15, PERU
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