Re: [CR]stitched leather bar covering/brake lever hoods

(Example: Framebuilders)

Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:08:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Sergio SERVADIO" <servadio@mail.df.unipi.it>
To: Raymond Dobbins <raydobbins2003@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]stitched leather bar covering/brake lever hoods
In-Reply-To: <20051012191138.13148.qmail@web60413.mail.yahoo.com>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Raymond Dobbins wrote:
> Erik Olsson wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to replace stitched leather bar covering?
> the only thing i recall hearing from a friend who did it is that the
> leather had to be soaked wet so that when it dried it would snug up
> nicely around the bars.

Never did it on the handlebar, but isn't that what a shoemaker does on the mold? Beforehand, punch the hole pattern: any regular sawing machine does it well. It should then be an easy job to pass the, indeed curved!, needle through.

Sergio
Pisa