W.Y.
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I started this in my own Woodworking Friends site and thought it might be informative enough to post in a couple other sites so here is a copy of it.
With a little luck this is going to be a two barrel leather Cigar pen.
The leather for this one is a little thicker than what I used in the single barrel Sierra that I made previous to this one. There will approx be 18 layers of leather in each barrel.
The leather used is some more scraps that my friend gave me and this time he loaned me a punch because this time I am doing it with the stacked on tube method instead of gluing leather together and drilling out the hole for the tube later like I did on my last one .
Here are the scraps of leather and the punch and I have cut some of the leather into 3/4" x 3/4" squares and started punching holes in the center.
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There was a small piece of Grey leather painted white on top so I am going to space a couple of them into each barrel.
Unfortunately the diameter of the punch was too small for the size of those brass tubes . So plan B was to use my Dremel tool and enlarge every hole so the pieces would slide snugly over the tube.
Here is the start of the gluing process.
Just another three or four layers to go. I wipe off the excess before clamping. The glue goes on white but dries crystal clear. ..
Here is one glued and clamped .
And here are both top and bottom barrel. Notice the glue has almost gone clear on the first one already.
Now I will give the glue a minimum of 24 hours to cure and will follow up some time after that with the steps I will take when turning these two blanks into a pen.
With a little luck this is going to be a two barrel leather Cigar pen.
The leather for this one is a little thicker than what I used in the single barrel Sierra that I made previous to this one. There will approx be 18 layers of leather in each barrel.
The leather used is some more scraps that my friend gave me and this time he loaned me a punch because this time I am doing it with the stacked on tube method instead of gluing leather together and drilling out the hole for the tube later like I did on my last one .
Here are the scraps of leather and the punch and I have cut some of the leather into 3/4" x 3/4" squares and started punching holes in the center.
There was a small piece of Grey leather painted white on top so I am going to space a couple of them into each barrel.
Unfortunately the diameter of the punch was too small for the size of those brass tubes . So plan B was to use my Dremel tool and enlarge every hole so the pieces would slide snugly over the tube.
Here is the start of the gluing process.
Just another three or four layers to go. I wipe off the excess before clamping. The glue goes on white but dries crystal clear. ..
Here is one glued and clamped .
And here are both top and bottom barrel. Notice the glue has almost gone clear on the first one already.
Now I will give the glue a minimum of 24 hours to cure and will follow up some time after that with the steps I will take when turning these two blanks into a pen.
