Leather Slickers, Bouncers, Smashers, Burnishers For Sale

Bouncers, Smashers. Slickers, and Burnishers

This page is a listing of the various wooden tools used for working leather. There are bouncers(aka smashers) used in saddle building, slickers for smoothing leather, and edge burnishers. I am not an expert on identifying wood by the grain, and am not making any speculations on the type of wood in any of these. There are no checks or cracks in them. Some of these are marked by CS Osborne with the Newark, NJ marking so that makes them over 100 years old. Some were bought and some were shop made. These have mostly been accumulated from old estate sets, and so this page is a listing of some pretty historic wood.

Sections below include -

Bouncers/Smashers
Slickers/Smoothers
Edge Slickers/Burnishers

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Bouncers-Smashers

These bouncer/smashers have nice smooth bottoms, solid handles, and no cracks. They are used primarily to mold and compress leather in the saddle making trade.

NEW - CS Osborne #2999 Large Fitter's Hammer - metal bouncer. The large face is 3 inches and smaller face is 1-5/8 inch. Highly polished to a mirror shine and smoothness. Two pound weight - $55.00. - IN STOCK

CSO1999SMFHMR - New CS Osborne smaller size fitters hammer, face is 1-3-8 inch and the peen end is 1 inch wide, 12 ounces, polished faces and ready to work. Design for shoe work but saddlemakers find these useful for the bases u swell covers and tucking Cheyenne rolls. - $25.00 - In Stock

9777 – unmarked wooden bouncer – $55.00.

15490 – white doorknob bouncer – $40.00.

15491 – white doorknob bouncer – $40.00.

15492 – white doorknob bouncer – $40.00.

Leather Stropping and Slicking Disc - This is an accessory I've made up for personal use but never really "produced them" until recently. These are 4 inch stacked vegtan leather discs glued together and mounted on an arbor for chucking into a benchtop drill press. You can apply your compound of choice to the ridges - black/green/white and polish and strop the concave edges on your round back edge tools. Recently a few people have let me know they use them to burnish edges on leather projects by charging the grooves with waxes or edge slicking mixtures of choice. You don't want to interchange functions with a single one however. Use one for edges and a separate for burnishing. I am going to try to keep these made up and in stock.