Recover Backchecks

[John Delacour]

At 17:12 -0600 14/1/08, Ron Nossaman wrote:

>>..Does anyone have a way to easily remove the old buckskin?...
>
>Dip them six or eight at a time in boiling water. The leather 
>fossilizes and curls off. A little longer and the felt slides off 
>too. Do the key end felts the same way at the same time.

The water doesn't need to be boiling, and it's better if it's not; 
just hottish and with a few drops of detergent in to speed up the 
absorption.  So long as they're dipped until the felt has absorbed as 
much water as it can, time will do the work and after a couple of 
hours the felt and leather will just lift off clean.  If they've used 
a particularly strong glue, they may need to be left overnight.

JD