needle for bolstering knuckles??

[Greg Newell]

What you describe here sounds suspiciously like a needle used by leather workers 
to pull the stitching though the edges of wallets or purses or whatever they hold 
together with leather stitching these days. I would try Tandy Leather at 
http://www.tandyleather.com/products.asp?dept=165    . This should be the page for 
needles and they do have a two pronged end into which you place leather stitching 
or lacing. I suppose you could use felt, though I've not tried it. I actually thought of it 
once but never did. You would probably want to glue harden the end before you put 
it in the needle. Hope this helps.

Greg Newell

On 16 Jul 2002 at 21:33, Mike and Jane Spalding wrote:

> List,
> 
> I recently discovered that by bolstering the knuckles on a well-worn
> grand action, I can avoid all that capstain turning and let-off rail
> raising that I hate to do!  I've been using a modified darning needle
> to pull a 2mm wide strip of bushing cloth through the knuckles.  The
> foldover at the eye is very difficult to pull through, and it
> stretches the buckskin more than I'd like.  In Chicago, one of the
> instructors (if I could remember who, I would contact him
> individually) described a flat needle with some kind of clip to grip
> the end of the action cloth, that he uses for knuckle bolstering.  He
> called it a glovers needle, and said the supply houses carry them. 
> Well, the supply house glovers needles are triangular cross-section
> voicing needles, aren't they?  So does anyone know what this flat
> needle is really called, and where I can get one?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Mike Spalding, RPT
> 
>