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Old 11-28-2002, 05:15 PM
Jason Cutter Jason Cutter is offline
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Chuck, the Ekol leather lacquer may be the same thing as the Neat-Lac. Yes, the Ekol stuff is also pretty darn hard to get off when refinishing something. Its also quite difficult to get off the old fingers when its completely dry - worse that trying to remove epoxy.

This might be off the point now, but one word of warning. The lacquer seems to penetrate well enough that it can cause the layers of an overlay to delaminate while it is wet, so the overlay needs to be stuck down real well.

Also, I've found another advantage to thoroughly wetting and "washing" the leather is that it removes any unwanted chemicals, dyes that might damage the steel later on. Its very hard to get vegetable tanned leather where I live and a lot of the commercial leather suppliers only have chemical-tanned skins. After doing the whole washing thing, there's been nary a problem with tarnishing, pitting of carbon steels even if the knife has been accidentally left in the sheath for prolonged periods.

Thought I'd pass that one on.

Cheers.


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