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]

cant sew

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

 

[pklonowski]

Canas mits

..or, worse yet -- your underwear!

 

[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]

canvas mitts

Sounds like a cottage industry in the making...

 

[Steve Baker]

Canvas mitts

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

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]

What am I doing wrong?

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]

Oops!

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]

Aha!

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]

Where to buy Canvas mits

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]

canvas mit or glove?

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?