Sunday, October 27, 2019

How to stiffen leather

You’ve possibly gone through the discomfort of a floppy wallet, whether you are a wallet designer or a wallet carrier. Lack of rigidity and sturdiness makes it hard to store the wallets which turn over roughly and develop uninviting creases, making it harder to locate stuff inside the wallet. Here below will be methods on how to stiffen leather wallet in details for you.
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While it is less complicated to make a wallet stiff throughout the preliminary creation—by means of selecting stiffer leather—it is also possible to utilize inserts to make the leather stiffen. Wallets can additionally be deconstructed, constructed with more stiffness and then returned to its first shape.
There are a handful of ways on how to stiffen leather wallet however the major way that leather-based could be made stiffened is using certain types of liquid on the leather and then letting the leather to go through a different shape with the help of heat.

Soaking method

Three ways of soaking leather in water

Soaking the leather with water is the most common way to stiffen leather.
To start with, fill a big bucket or a sink with room temperature water.  Let the leather soaked in cool water for 10 minutes until making sure it’s thoroughly soaked. Sometimes it might take longer than 10 minutes. Then the leather wallet can be shaped into a desire form. After that, you can dry it until it feels completely hard.

How to stiffen leather by soaking method
How to stiffen leather by soaking method

Another way, also by soaking leather is using hot water. However, this does not mean that the water can be too hot. The water temperature should be comfortable enough to put your hands into. You can soak the leather in it until the water gets cool; after that you can take it out and leave it dry. Normally, the more time leather immerses in hot water, the stiffer and more brittle it becomes. So you can soak longer if you want it to be stiffer.
Also with this soaking method, you can use boiling water. Heat a pot of water until the water reaches around 180 degrees Fahrenheit (82 degrees Celsius). You should make sure the temperature is right on otherwise the results would be as expected. A thermometer could be helpful. And if you do not own one, you can gauge the temperature by checking moments until it’s almost boiling. With boiling water, you also soak the leather into it, the longer you dunk it in the hot water, the stiffer it gets.

Allow the leather to dry

Let the leather stay at the room temperature for a few hours before start using it again. After drying, the leather wallet would be stiffer and thicker remarkably.
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Baking method

Baking is also one of the methods on how to stiffen leather wallet.
To carry out this method, you also need to soak the leather into cool room temperature water. Immerse the leather in the water for around 10 to 30 minutes until it is thoroughly soaked and it should be fairly flexible when taken out.

How to stiffen leather by baking method
How to stiffen leather by baking method

Now, it’s time to preheat the oven to prepare for the baking part. Turn the over on and preheat it until it reaches about 120 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius). Remember that only around this temperature is acceptable; higher temperature could make little burn.
By this time, you can take the leather out of the water. The leather is now flexible enough for you to shape it into desired form.
To bake the leather, you will put the wet leather straight into the oven and keep baking until it feels dry enough. This might take around 20 to 90 minutes depending on how many minutes you’ve soak the leather.
After finishing baking the leather in the oven, take it out and let it cool off. During this time, the leather will keep stiffening.
There will be other more methods on how to stiffen leather wallet. We hope that with the most two common and effective methods above, you will be able to regain the beauty of your leather wallet.
Refer: https://ciceroleather.com/how-to-stiffen-leather/
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