simple useful tip !

[Gordon Holley]

Now you tell me.  I just finished putting new buckskin on 88 Kimball 
style knuckles, for an old Farrand Grand.  And that wasn't any fun 
either.  The sheet of buckskin had a variance in thickness enough to 
make some of the knuckles big fat and ugly.  Ended up replacing the 
first buckskin on 2 dozen knuckles with a second try.
Joe Garrett tells me that he has a method of leveling out the 
thickness of the sheet, don't have the details on the process.
I do know one thing, I'll never replace buckskin on knuckles again, 
I'll replace the shanks/knuckles and new hammers.  Yes, I know there 
is somewhat a difference in the costs between the two. 
I spent more time on it and I'm still not satisfied with the results. 
 The new knuckles made the regulation a nightmare.
Another vodka tonic please.
Regards, Gordon Holley
Associate Member, Indiana Chapter 467
Goshen, Indiana
On 10 Jul 2003 at 14:34, Isaac OLEG wrote:

> Dear friends,
> 
> 
> I can resist giving you the little tip there.
> 
> For the ones that regularely glue new leather on backchecks, new felt
> on whippens, may be new leather or knuckles/roller sometime, the
> magician trick is to use a drop of water on the felt/leather, so you
> can glue easely with a little tension, then when the glue sets and the
> part get dry the tensionning became perfect.
> 
> I will offer soon little bottles of that water for a very reasonnable
> price.
> 
> More than useful, an old method rediscovered !
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> 
> Isaac OLEG
> 
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> > -----Message d'origine-----
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> > Stephen,
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