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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: zenmonkeyman on April 11, 2010, 10:44:07 pm

Title: Leather finish
Post by: zenmonkeyman on April 11, 2010, 10:44:07 pm

Would I be totally nuts to spar varnish over my leather arrow pass?  I suppose I'd lose some of the quietness if I did so?  Has anybody done it?

Thanks!

Garett

Title: Re: Leather finish
Post by: Pat B on April 11, 2010, 11:59:31 pm

Leather need to breath. I would not varnish over the leather.

Title: Re: Leather finish
Post by: zenmonkeyman on April 12, 2010, 01:47:07 am

Thanks, Pat!  Appreciate the response.

Title: Re: Leather finish
Post by: bubby on April 12, 2010, 02:35:15 am

back when I was tooling leather all the time I always finished with neetlac leather finnish, a shelac, can't hurt to ty it as long as it's not ruffside out

Title: Re: Leather finish
Post by: zenmonkeyman on April 12, 2010, 03:43:11 pm

Thanks for the tip, bubby!

Title: Re: Leather finish
Post by: Gordon on April 12, 2010, 05:34:42 pm

Neetlac is a great product, but Tandy no longer distributes it. I have yet to find a suitable replacement.

Title: Re: Leather finish
Post by: zenmonkeyman on April 12, 2010, 08:24:37 pm

Found a leatherworking forum thread about neetlac replacements.

http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=15013&hl=neat+lac

Based on page 1, the frontrunners seem to be "Clearlac", and "RTC".  There are 3 pages though.

Title: Re: Leather finish
Post by: bubby on April 13, 2010, 01:50:16 am

Guess that shows how long it's been since I tooled any leather, hope the newer stuff works out