Welt from scraps?

[CWC]

I'll be starting on my first hunting pouch soon, and have one question. I've read "Recreating the 18th Century Hunting Pouch" but have a question about the welt. Instead of cutting a long single piece welt could I use my leather scraps to make the welt out of 4 or 5 pieces? As far as I've read the only purpose of the welt is to give the stitches some protection, in which case I don't see a problem with using several pieces. Has anyone tried this?

 

[rabjr]

Sure you can, however it will show the multiple pieces. If that don't bother you then by all means do it that way but the bag will look much better with one continuous welt.

 

[Goldhunter]

If you do use multiple peices, I'd skive (taper) the peices to make them fit together better.

 

[rabjr]

:hmm: If he's going to do that a drop of Barge would help there too. Doing that might just make the cuts disappear.

 

[Goldhunter]

That's what I'm thinking. But you posted before I could edit! :grin:

 

[tshrcav8r]

I have skived welt and glued them together with Barge cement. If I had to do it again, I might consider skiving the leather, dying, then gluing. The dye didn't like the glue very much..

 

[Goldhunter]

Good point. Any other glues that might work and can be dyed? Like elmers?

 

[CWC]

Thanks for all the replys. This bag is a practice run made from some junk leather anyway, so I'm not too concerned with the look. Guess I'll give it a try and see how it turn's out.