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I've read in multiple places that covering wooden vise faces with leather greatly improves the grip. So I decided to try it out. Two local craft/fabric stores - nada. Searching the internet for a supplier is overwhelming... there's chap leather, garment, rawhide, sheep, ostrich... and most are only sold in huge amounts.
Where can a person simply and inexpensively find a little bit of leather to cover some freaking vise faces?
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Mods - please move this post to the General forum. Thanks!
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ebay has the best prices and availability.
Search for " veg tanned cowhide"
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Just search for leather stores in your town. I think I saw a Tandy leather in Cincinnati.
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Jon, ya'll have a Tandy leather store 771-0245
http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com/
they should have everything you will need
Dave
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Jon,
I bought a couple of remnants that were left over saddle skirting. The craft/leather store had dozens of boxes of different scraps. I think I paid by the pound. Works great, attached the rough side to the vice jaws with white PVA glue.
Gary
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+1. I got mine from this dealer, Dangerous Threads.
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Try your neighborhood shoe repair shop...
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Tandy leather.
Roy
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One more vote for Tandy Leather.
Thats where I picked up a nice thick piece for vice face.
Didn't have to get a huge piece as they have a scrap bin.
All I have to do now is glue it on....
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DAMN!
I have the day off from work tomorrow and was just thinking I was just going to stay in and relax. Now I know there is a store, I never knew existed, in my home town.
And to make matters worse I just Googled the address and it is right between Rockler and Woodcraft. :-)
Last edited by Dave Lehnert; 10-27-2009 at 10:59 PM.
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FWIW, I've used both smooth (polished) face and rough-out face for bench-vise linings and found that the rough-out gripped the work much better, with noticeably less vise pressure.
Either one would be easy to apply with a good spray adhesive, like 3M's Super-77.
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This is the best place I've ever dealt with for anything leather! five stars
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that Brettuns website has a nice chart that translates weight in oz into thickness. Like everything else there's a whole terminology. If your at tandy you might want to buy a nice hole punch, the wheel type and make yourself a plane holster. its easy and cheap. I like to keep some leather around.
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To save everyone else searching for the URL: http://www.brettunsvillage.com/leather/
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