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Shellac on leather?

I'm gonna put shellac on my cork grips today and I was wondering if I could do the same to my leather mudguards? I'm guessing it would be ok. The color on the flaps is slightly lighter than my Brooks Honey B17 so I'm hoping a single coat or two will do the job. 

 

Any advice on how long I should wait in between coats and how thick or thin I should apply the layers? 

 

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Permalink Reply by Holly on May 5, 2011 at 10:56am

We did this in Girl Scouts! Boy, was that ever a dumb craft.

 

I love your bike. I wouldn't do white rims myself, but hand-built wheels are just what this thing needs next. I'm pretty jealous!


Ryan L said:

I'm also thinking about an old project I did in 5th grade where our teacher (who was a vietnam war vet) had us wrap a glass bottle with masking tape and then rub shoe polish on it to give it a leathery look; of course, instead I will use shellac. I'm going to use this technique on the front fender to rack bolt and maybe as accents on the rear rack. If it looks like shit I can just remove it without any harm. Should be a fun little project.
Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on May 5, 2011 at 11:34am
The nice thing about hand-built wheels is that most people have hands.  Wheelbuilding isn't hard to do at all.  I could teach anyone to do it.
Permalink Reply by Holly on May 7, 2011 at 9:02am
James--that's what someone once told me about sewing until they realized I was hopeless with the detail work. It turns out my hands are more like seal fins when it comes to using any fine motor skills. 

James Baum said:
The nice thing about hand-built wheels is that most people have hands.  Wheelbuilding isn't hard to do at all.  I could teach anyone to do it.
Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on May 7, 2011 at 9:20am
It doesn't really take all that much hand-eye coordination to build a wheel.  If you can butter bread you can build a wheel.  It's just knowing where to put each spoke and if you follow Sheldon's advice, even that isn't hard.    Sewing/knitting/crocheting is much harder than wheelbuilding IMHO.  The hardest part of wheelbulding is the tensioning and truing part and even that isn't hard once you do a few and get the feel.
Permalink Reply by Holly on May 7, 2011 at 9:57am

Oh, I tried knitting, too...I sorta kinda liked it, but not enough to keep doing it. 

My friend is a really good guitarist. He always says that in order to be good at something, you have to be willing to suck at it for awhile.  I've found that to be true of just about anything I'm not naturally inclined to do.

 

 

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on May 7, 2011 at 10:01am
I've always been really good at just "picking stuff up" but there are a few things that really eluded me.  Like you, I don't like sucking at things -I'm glad it doesn't happen very often. Two things I just couldn't get the hang of (even though I spent quite a bit of time sucking at them) were Guitar and Morse Code.
Permalink Reply by Holly on May 7, 2011 at 10:05am
How sucky would it be to be really sucky at everything? My three things: hand sewing, playing stringed instruments, and applying that plastic weather protection film on my windows, although I am almost really good at applying that plastic stuff, but I didn't do it this year so I'll be back to sucking at that again.
Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on May 7, 2011 at 10:16am
That window film is just evil.  It's not that hard to put on but 2 months later it starts peeling back off.  The tape they use only sticks after 6 months and then it won't come back off at all.
Permalink Reply by Bernard Joseph Hannigan on May 7, 2011 at 7:54pm
It looks like the tip of your Brooks is high. A proper saddle adjustment should be level. Lay a six inch level on top the saddle to see if it is there.
Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on May 7, 2011 at 10:20pm

Brooks are not always the best flat, they are often more comfortable a little nose high.

 

Actually many people like to have a saddle that is not exactly level; butts often care not for the 'rules.'

 

Bernard Joseph Hannigan said:

It looks like the tip of your Brooks is high. A proper saddle adjustment should be level. Lay a six inch level on top the saddle to see if it is there.
Permalink Reply by Ryan L on May 7, 2011 at 10:55pm

What Dug said and stuff.



Bernard Joseph Hannigan said:

It looks like the tip of your Brooks is high. A proper saddle adjustment should be level. Lay a six inch level on top the saddle to see if it is there.
Permalink Reply by Dr. Doom on May 7, 2011 at 11:13pm
The taint wants what it wants.

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