Restoration 101 - (Holy Smokes!)

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You won't need to cut the leather to long just a little longer than your strike plate.

 

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Into the warm water.

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1 1/2" wide and as long as you want to make it.

 

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Make marks 1/4 apart on both ends.

 

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A nylon washer screwed to a piece of Purple Heart.

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Ya still with me?

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Same color leather dye as used on the grip.

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Homemade leather-cutting die.

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And then.

 

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Restoration 101 continues ...

   

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Double backed sticky tape.

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Trimmed to fit.

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Remove protective backing from tape.

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You should end up with something looking somewhat like this. The strike plate is all done and this one time unshootable little gem is headed home for a new life.

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Don Ward's Al Harford transfers lesson begins .... ([email protected])

Transfers ready and separated from the backing. When I say separated from the backing I mean I did peel them apart to make sure they separated clean and then kind of laid them back together to protect the letters from collecting dust.

   

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Make a small 3-4 inch long application of finish. Then let that set for 10-30 minutes pending on your type of finish. It needs to be a bit tacky, but not wet. I myself normally do the upper and lowers at the same time. But if it’s your first time setting the dry transfers you may want to stay with one at a time.

 

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Now press the letters into the tacky finish. I use a small plastic tool I bought from Al to press the transfers down however you can use a small piece of wood

..anyhow here's the nylon tool for transfering your dry transfers onto the bow limbs...bowdoc


     

     

     


       

Question from Tradgang member - That is cool. What is it? I wonder if I could buy them bulk somewhere. In Dad's instructions he said he used a knitting needle. Looks like it would do the same thing. How stiff is the nylon?

 Its solid and very ridged.Before I got that from Al I used a piece of hardwood tapered like an arrow. bd

Tip from fellow Tradganger - Hey guys, I can help here. that's a plastic "burnisher" that's used to tighten and flatten the Thread windings on a fishing rod. I got one some years ago from the "Angler's Workshop" located in your neck of the woods Bowdoc. Bellingham WA. I haven't been to their web page in years but if they are still on the web look in the fishing rod building section. Arne

Arne I bet your right about that.I'll try and check that out.thanks bd

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You can see in this pic of where I rubbed the transfers into the tacky finish better.
I use a razor blade to pick up the edge of the transfer paper.

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The new transfers should end up looking something like these.