simple useful tip !

[Avery Todd]

Hi Gordon,

Just out of curiosity, if you were going that way, why didn't you just
replace the knuckles by themselves? Not a great lot of fun either, but
more than what you said you did! :-)

Avery

At 04:45 PM 07/10/03 -0500, you wrote:
>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