Thread: Well This Turned to Custard

Hi all. Today I tried my hand at making a pouch for my Opinel No12. After constructing the pouch which came out well I decided to harden it with 50/50 beeswax and paraffin wax. I rubbed it in on another sheath last week with good results but this time I thought I'd be clever a dip the pouch into hot melted wax, and as the title says, it turned to custard. So much wax stuck to the pouch I had to put it in the oven in a attempt to get the excess wax to dip off and wipe off what I could, didn't get as much off as I was hoping, pouch dried but still feels a little sticky and looks like shit, might have to try again and build another and apply wax by hand but run out of rivets.

so you made a shit not a pouch

could you hang it and try a heat gun on it to de wax it?

Or iron it between layers of brown paper?

I laced the last sheath with fishing braid rather than rivets. But before you make another one, you have nothing to lose trying to remove the wax etc from the existing one. You currently have a sheath you cannot use and dont have a sheath that you can use...if you ruin it trying to remove the wax you are exactly the same place as you are now....

Popsicle stick or similar and scrap any excess off? Then just use it and put up with it until the leather softens up again? Lessons learned though, baking leathergoods isn't a great plan and neither is dunking it in wax haha.

Nothing to lose so submerge in bees wax thinners (turps) and warm up. The remove, cover in rags inside and out and squash to soak up the last bits of dissolved wax

Acetone wipe?

Just put the knife in your pocket :-)

Originally Posted by Three O'Three

Hi all. Today I tried my hand at making a pouch for my Opinel No12. After constructing the pouch which came out well I decided to harden it with 50/50 beeswax and paraffin wax. I rubbed it in on another sheath last week with good results but this time I thought I'd be clever a dip the pouch into hot melted wax, and as the title says, it turned to custard. So much wax stuck to the pouch I had to put it in the oven in a attempt to get the excess wax to dip off and wipe off what I could, didn't get as much off as I was hoping, pouch dried but still feels a little sticky and looks like shit, might have to try again and build another and apply wax by hand but run out of rivets.
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yes got sucked into a beeswax for my bike leathers - never again damn stuff just went into lumps in the cold and came of leathers looked like they had been hit with white lumps - got a proper german saddle oil effax comes as black or brown good stuff

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

yes got sucked into a beeswax for my bike leathers - never again damn stuff just went into lumps in the cold and came of leathers looked like they had been hit with white lumps - got a proper german saddle oil effax comes as black or brown good stuff

You might find that's just beeswax with parafin and neatsfoot mixed in 😁

A wick and a match...

wear it on ya belt in the srub and let ma nature remove the excess which it will inevitably.likwise the natural movement of the knife in and out of the sheath over time.

One of the guys at work said to leave on the window sill in full sun and eventually it'll dry up. Left it out today and so far so good.