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Hardening Leather. Speculation: It is conceivable to me that, after introducing an organic waste product, such as wax to leather, it might rot away faster than ordinary leather.
It is also conceivable that after more than four hundred years of burial, there is no way to distinguish the waxed forms. It is, however, also reasonable to assume that waxed armor was not used either in period, or during any of the classical periods for armor, either because it was too expensive to waste, to difficult to get a regular temperature from an oven that was low enough not to destroy the leather, or some other reason. I would have suspected that the Mediterranean Civilizations might have had trouble with it due to the sun's heat, but I have been informed by the people I have armored in the stuff that fighting under the Texas/Oklahoma sun hasn't posed a problem and that while the leather softens a bit after an all day thing, it rehardens very quickly.
The Perfect Armor Improved: Water Hardened Leather. Some years ago, I wrote an article on how to make hardened leather armor, using beeswax.
Since then, I have concluded that although the method I described works reasonably well for SCA purposes--I have fought in my wax hardened klibanion for a good many years now--it is quite unlikely that it is the method used in period for armor. I reached that conclusion for three reasons: 1. Beeswax is a lubricant. Furthermore, stiffening the leather makes it easier to cut, just as it is easier to slice meat if it is half frozen. 2. 3.
How to Water Harden Leather Take a piece of vegetable tanned leather. In about a minute, the leather will begin to darken, go limp, and curl up. The longer you leave the leather in the hot water after the process has started, the more it shrinks, the more it darkens, the thicker it gets--and the harder the final piece will be. Historical Reenactment - Leatherworker.net. Wet formed bag tutorial - How Do I Do That? - Leatherworker.net. Not sure if this is the right place for this bit if it is not I am sure a mod will move it.
First the disclaimer. I am self taught at leatherwork and may well be doing everything the wrong way. I have read a few books but do not always follow what they say. That said I am pretty pleased with my results and have been asked to document the way I have made the wet formed bags I do and so here is how I do it (not necessarily how it should be done) We are going to make a wet formed bag. Once finished we should end up with a bag looking like this.