Heading towards the end of the year looking towards making a few more parts in the New Year, and getting the tool-roll remake underway applying some traditional crafts and materials to make a few. I am most interested to hear from anyone who has worked with the following materials and crafts. Leather cloth edging trim - thank you Whirlwind for finding some ex Morris Minor parcel trays Vegetable dying - would this have been onion skin for the red-brown? Leather tanning Buckle making Attached is this year's tool collection heading for a 'concours' PB kit, roll dimensions re-measured from an original. Original tools getting very hard to find (anyone else had some good fortune?), and finally, a lovely 10" boxwood screwdriver. The head spanner is the early engine model 1/4W used on M and F models. The single ended box spanners finally tracked down and superb prototype remakes made by a colleague in Australia.
Just to pick up a couple of points. By the 1930's dyeing had moved entirely to synthetic dyes. True the range of dyes and range of colours were more limited than now, but the acid dyes (they use vinegar to fix the dye) which are available from craft suppliers would have been used then.
It is possible that leather tanned with oak bark will give the colour you require, there are still traditional tanners who do this work.
The leather starts brown so very little additional colour (red?) would be required. The leather has to be heated to 80degC for the dye to fix to the material.
Hopefully these help to create more of your fine replicas (if I can use that word in this company!)
Thanks Ian. I'll stick with synthetic dyes for that part. Possibly the term to describe the remakes I do is 'reproductions with integrity'. The definition of 'integrity' then becomes the key question. This would lie I suggest somewhere in the range, perhaps more towards the top end I would hope, between 'complete cowboy' to 'incredibly pedantic'. Synonym for the parts produced by 'incredibly pedantic' would be for example, an 'exact copy'. Donald McLeod PB0759
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