Old Style Leather Buttons

[Paul Chick]

RE: Old Style Leather Buttons

Paul,

If you have an old one, I'd imagine you could punch the same diameter with
shoe leather and glue it into the existing hole?   What is special about the
holes?   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA 94044

Subject: Old Style Leather Buttons

List members:

A client wants the original leather buttons installed on his ebony grand.
They are glued into a specially shaped hole in the lid, etc.  Wasn't there
an article in the PTJ about how to make/replace these bumpers.  Some of them
were lost in the veneer repair stages.  I usually fill the old holes and use
a stem bumper that's available through supply houses.  But he wants to stay
as original as possible.  Right now, all I have is  modified spade bits for
the convex and concave profiles to form the holes.

Paul C

 

The shape that remains in the "bumper places," have crowned center with the
edge recessed into the wood, I'm guessing the enhance the "crown" shape of
the bumper.

Paul C

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