THIS IS THE SECOND PART OF A POST . THERE ARE TWO PARTS TO THIS POST BECAUSE MY EXCEPTIONALLY POOR PLANNING AND RUN ON OF THE KEYBORD FLOODED THE PREVIEW SUB PROGRAM. Putz…
Anyway, the previous post showed a product called Hirschkleber.
I used it in this work in progress for a belt bag where I wanted to skive and fold the edge of the flap, per the pictures below. You can see in the first pic that the edge is uneven…bulging at one of the rounded corners. You can also see in the second pic where, on the lining side, I tore open the seam to even it out. Pull it open and re-glue it and the glue will hold fast without being as stubborn as contact cement or as weak as rubber cement.
The third pic shows the edge rounded a little more evenly. I can put it down, come back and get it right when I have time because the glue enables reworking with it. P.S., Hopefully the patina and surface of the third photo, courtesy of the Deglazer ( also from the previous post) will be evident.
I’ll assemble and finish this bag in a later post because I want to wet mold it and that’s a separate topic.
In the meantime, recall the idea we started with; that finish work is so important...
It’s not just what you put on the surface of the leather. It’s in the attention to detail behind something like folding over the edge of a flap, for example. So, I tell you what…I plagiarized some pics from posts right here in this forum section because they are exemplary. So, for the newbies who post in this section, I stole some stuff we all ought to be looking at
Look at this bag from a James Rogers post. Look how neatly his stitching at the top of the bag front and along the edge of the flap sits so close to the edge of the binding strip itself. That’s finish work. If you’re as good as James is, you may not even have to skive the strip, but one should strive to get the stitching evenly spaced and balanced with the edge.
Here’s one by Marcruger where the strip at the top of the front is rolled over the top and tightly stitched underneath the roll. That’s finish work. I don’t even know if he skived that strip, but the roll is so neat and even that it becomes an objective to emulate the next time I do that. The strip is also a good place to skive
Lastly, head over to this post by TC Albert that shows the detail of a dead on welted seam on a great looking bag he crafted. That’s finish work. You can’t tell whether this is skived or not. Although skiving is a good way to make a turned seam easier to work, look at how easy it is to look at on a bag because it is so even. That’s the end result.
These are just recently posted….within two or three days of each other, but they clearly show the half of progress you can make by viewing somebody else’s work. The other half is by correcting mistakes. I will wrestle with the edge of my little belt bag to get it right before assembly, and would welcome advice on an easier way to do this fold.
Tight Stitches
The Capgun Kid
AKA The Still River Cordwainer
