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.

 

[Judge]

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.

That's precisely a primary reason why I use it in plastic modelling. It flows into crevices so evenly.

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.

One tactile thing I cannot stand is getting any of that glue on my fingers. And on rare occasion I got way too much. Had to use Acetone to take it off. It is possible to use on severe cuts, though I've heard doctors and also dentists discourage the idea.

 

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It is possible to use on severe cuts, though I've heard doctors and also dentists discourage the idea.

No, what they discourage is you doing it yourself, then they get no fee. Take a child to the hospital with a bad cut and 9 times out of 10 they'll just use Super Glue on it.

 

[Judge]

No, what they discourage is you doing it yourself, then they get no fee. Take a child to the hospital with a bad cut and 9 times out of 10 they'll just use Super Glue on it.

Maybe in your country. In mine it's a little more complicated. Not for purely medical reasons, but for legal ones pertaining to malpractice and product liability concerns.

That if medical professionals opt to do so, it will likely be a medical grade of cyanoacrylate glue rather than a consumer or industrial grade. Something I suspect that has a higher resistance to infection and allergic reactions which remain typical medical concerns over such products.

Yet if a "Good Samaritan" were to use such glue in an emergency, they'd likely escape any potential legal exposure. If a doctor were to do the same with "krazy glue" and it resulted in complications of some kind, they may well be exposed to malpractice.

Simple point. In most countries litigation is sanely regulated. In mine it's "Dodge City".