Help with a glue job PWEEEESE

Screws or tacks.

-- Bill M. "People change, walnut doesn't" by Gene.

Loctite is a great clue but a little expensive

http://www.thistothat.com/cgi-bin/glue.cgi?lang=en&this=Leather&that=Wood

Bill, Saddlemakers use barge glue BUT oil tanned leather just doesn’t glue well. I would try some other type of leather as it will take buff compound better than oil tanned.

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I would try shoe goo. I think it is for shoe repair. I use it to coat the toe on my steel toe boots so I don’t wear a hole in them. You have to let it cure for like a week. I coat the toes of my boots multiple times until it is 1/4” thick and let it cure. It will last the life of a pair of boots (8-10 hard months).

Just gave up and went to the local shoe repair. He glued that bad boy up in no time with a special shoe contact glue. I’m back in business.
Bill

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Sounds like shoe goo.

-- Bill M. "People change, walnut doesn't" by Gene.

Cut slots in the plywood wheel, glue the leather into those. I doubt you’ll ever get it to stay just glued to the outside.

-- Rick M, http://thewoodknack.blogspot.com/

I used Gorilla Glue and a strap clamp on mine and remember that you have to bevel the ends to over lap and that your rotation should be such that you cannot catch the end of the bevel. Hope that all makes sense.
MIKE

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Custom shoe maker here. Oil tanner leathers are a PITA.

You need a contact cement made for vinyl, differnt from Barge. You should thin it and apply many thin coats then hit it with a heat gun for the final pressing.

Just be glad you could find a shoemaker. They are a dying species.