Need help choosing adhesive for leather

[grommet]

A friend made this for me. Technically, the loop is loosened by undoing the antler button, but I just use my thumb to push it off that little bit of guard when I need to take the blade out:

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Thank you, now I understand. I think I can do that. I have the leather strap I took off, I might be able to use it. It is the same leather so it would match like it was made that way. I also have a lot of cord. I hope I can figure it out. The hard part will be figuring out how to attach it to the front of the sheath.

I have leather punches but I cannot think of what I would mount in there. It seems like it needs a post.

 

[Judge]

I have a lot of experience with CA glue. It can be wonderful. I am concerned about it peeling off the leather surface also, if it did not work out I would have marks on the sheath. Maybe that would be okay since I could try something else over it. CA can solve a lot of problems, I am not sure about this one.

Good point. The leather itself being the "wild card" in this equation. Whether the surface can withstand such adhesion or if it would peel- or even tear away with gravity in time.

 

[grommet]

Good point. The leather itself being the "wild card" in this equation. Whether the surface can withstand such adhesion or if it would peel- or even tear away with gravity in time.

I love CA though. You can do really neat stuff with it. I have seen people mix it with cornstarch and use it as filler. I always wanted to try that.

For the sheath I need to figure out how to install a post, catch or knob for a strap to come across to. Not sure what I will choose or how to do that. I have a lot of tools and experience working with my hands but I do not have a lot of original ideas, mostly just fixing things. I think I am good at that. Hm, maybe I should imagine it had a strap with a post, the post broke and I have to replace it, maybe my brain could figure it out that way.

 

[Judge]

I love CA though. You can do really neat stuff with it. I have seen people mix it with cornstarch and use it as filler. I always wanted to try that.

For the sheath I need to figure out how to install a post, catch or knob for a strap to come across to. Not sure what I will choose or how to do that. I have a lot of tools and experience working with my hands but I do not have a lot of original ideas, mostly just fixing things. I think I am good at that. Hm, maybe I should imagine it had a strap with a post, the post broke and I have to replace it, maybe my brain could figure it out that way.

It's been a staple of mine pertaining to plastic models ever since it came out on the market.

 

[grommet]

It's been a staple of mine pertaining to plastic models ever since it came out on the market.

I always forget, do you know if as a liquid it is a monomer and it begins cross linking while curing so becomes a stable polymer? I tried learning about it a long time ago and kept forgetting the explanation. I think it is that it flows as a liquid, filling in and making contact with the smallest surfaces and imperfections then becomes a solid, locking it in place.

A friend told me I could use it to stop a serious cut. One day carving a plastic project box for an electronics project I slipped with the knife but the last time I had gone to the emergency department it was seven hours for four stitches. So I tried it. He said let it bleed first then use the CA and pinch the skin together. It worked wonderfully and I had no infection, also less of a scar but what my friend did not say and I wonder if he knew was that it become s apiece of plastic stuck in a wound. Removing it was difficult. I would do it again to avoid hours at the hospital but I would pick the skin until I had unwounded parts and lay a line of CA there. When I removed it would not be pulling on anything tender.

I love the stuff though, so many things it can do including once helping to hold a nut on a fingertip so I could screw something in and there was not enough room to hold it any other way. Wonderful stuff.