Canvas mits

[ken mueller]

I needed to make several canvas mits for smoothing the canvas filler. Can't sew. After cutting out the right size for the mit, I put a bead of Gorilla Glue around the edge, then pressed both pieces between a board with a car battery on top. Did 8 mits all at the same time. Works great!

[Andre Cloutier]

please dont tell us you mend socks and pants with it...:eek:

[pklonowski]

..or, worse yet -- your underwear! :eek:

[Douglas Ingram]

Regular wood glue works well, too. Been doing that for years. I highly reccomend the adheisve sewing technique. Don't really need the battery, just press tight and wait.

[Dan Lindberg]

Thanks,
I'll try it.

It sounds better then the safety pins I was using. :)

Dan

[MikeCav]

Last time, I just used an office stapler - just keep the seams away from your hands!

[Douglas Ingram]

I've tried the stapler method, too. Glue is a nicer result, but with the staples you're ready to go right away if you've forgotten to glue up a mitt in advance...

[Todd Bradshaw]

Hot glue gun. Sixty seconds later it's ready to go.

[Mark Adams]

Mother in law with a sewing machine. and she sewed a jillion of em!

[pklonowski]

Sounds like a cottage industry in the making...

[Steve Baker]

I use canvas work gloves: $1.79 a pair at the hardware store. :cool:

Steve Baker #469

[Blue Viking]

I took an old wooden cement trowel with a handle and tacked some rug around it. Then I stapled left over canvas to that and when it is saturated I remove it and staple on another piece...........works fine for me for that first good rub in!

[Dave Wermuth]

great ideas about 'mits' But when I go to rub in the filler I tend to stick to the filler and smudge it up. makes it less smooth. Any hints?

[Blue Viking]

:) In Rollin's description in his book, he suggests only doing a litttle section at a time, having a helper roll it on, and then following with a good rub in while it is good and liquid...I dont have a helper but switch tasks very efficiently! havent had a problem so far!

[Blue Viking]

:confused: Oops.........maybe it was Jerry's description!......Now I will have to check to see who does it that way!.........anyway........it works!

[Dave Wermuth]

I am waiting too long. I do the whole thing and then go to rubbing. I got to make a trowel now.

[ken mueller]

Wow! I thought I had a novel idea with the Gorilla Glue! Looks like a lot of you beat me to it. Same thing happened when I invented the internet...

[Brian DeRose]

I would like to know if anyone can tell me where to buy canvas mits? This is my first canoe that I'm restoring. I want to do it rite. No half _____

Brian H Derose

[MikeCav]

Brian - read further back in this thread - plenty of suggestions for using work gloves, or DIY from the canvas scraps you will have. You are just rubbing in goop, not painting a Picasso, so any solution works.

[Brian DeRose]

Brian - read further back in this thread - plenty of suggestions for using work gloves, or DIY from the canvas scraps you will have. You are just rubbing in goop, not painting a Picasso, so any solution works.
Would cotton canvas gloves work? If I were to use a mit would it go on smoother?

[petermueller]

Cut two pieces of canvas to size,staple them together, turn them inside out and you have mitts. Credit must be given to Paul Miller for this technique.

Works great!

[Brian DeRose]

What do you all think of this idea?? :)

[Blue Viking]

for that third coating, where they used to rub by hand, I use latex throw away gloves....thats when using leaded filler...amazing how smooth you can get that last fill with these....works for me!....LOL...and its alot cheaper than rubber gloves....

"The JOY is in the journey!"

[Splinter]

I am stunned at how many "avoidance strategies" there are in lieu of sewing. It's not that hard guys. Restoring a canoe is WAY harder than just sewing a mitt for crying out loud. A second grader could sew one! Just put on your big boy panties and sew the dang thing. :confused: I suppose Paul Klonowski is going to say he can't because his are in a clamp being glued together right now.

[pklonowski]

Stapling is faster than sewing, and requires only hand tools -- no electricity involved.

Are you having these bizarre hallucinations again? C'mon, Margaret, if you're going to be doing drugs like this, at least you should share! :p

[Dave Wermuth]

Hi Margaret.
Speaking for all men everywhere---We know all about sewing but prefer to pretend we do not because we are just guys and if we admit to it then we will also have to admit to knowing how to use the iron. We never grow up and are always on recess. That's how we roll.

[Todd Bradshaw]

Speak for yourself :) Ironing is, however, out of the question.... Flatness is highly over-rated. Staples are kind of crude though. I'd at least use a hot glue gun.

[Splinter]

By the time I wait for the glue gun to heat up, I could have 3 sewn already. Also faster than gluing and clamping. This really amazes me. Men seem to love machines of all kinds. You'd think they'd be hogging the sewing machine. I taught my ex husband to sew on the sewing machine early on in our marriage. He enjoyed it quite a bit and made lots of useful and neat stuff including a whole Alaskan outerwear outfit of some sort. He felt that if men knew how how much fun it was to use a machine that is easy to control and get these kind of results, they'd never let the women have the sewing machine. You guys are missing out. I know there are men who are confident enough with their masculinity to approach their significant other and say "Please show me how to use this thing, I have to make a mitt". And if you do take this bold step please enter your experience here so others may learn from your proactive approach to "canvas mitt sewing". Who knows, maybe your significant other will be so shocked by this charming new side of you that they will want to tear the buttons of your shirt with their teeth and insist in wild lovmaking then and there.

[Gary Willoughby]

I don't have a sewing machine so I staple.I was wondering why nobody uses MEND IT advertised by Billie Mays on TV. Just think if you made it big enough you could also use it as a parachute

[Howard Caplan]

My canoe building instructor showed me a different, easier way.
Apply first coat, hand rub, apply second coat. Attach canvas to car buffer and let the buffer do the work. If you do a third coat, repeat.
As far as how you make the mits, the buffer method cuts down on the number of mits you have to make. And the results were far better then when I hand mitted the whole thing... and ... I saved a ton on elbow grease.
howard

[pklonowski]

Well, I'll admit to using an iron once. Somewhere I had heard that if you had a photocopy of something (in this case, a pattern for making a piece of furniture), you could put it topside down on the piece of wood, then it becomes an iron-on transfer... It sort of almost worked, although not well enough to repeat the process. So it makes a pretty good paperweight.

[Splinter]

So if you iron the pattern onto the wood, is the wood supposed to become the piece of furniture? Think of the manufacturing cost savings..... Move over China!

[pklonowski]

That was the theory behind the ironing pattern. It just didn't transfer much of the pattern. Maybe the copier had the wrong kind of toner?