Friday, November 20, 2009

Hoods and Leather Conversion

Well I'm in the middle of making a new hood, i also need to buy some more leather. One of the issues i have with all the leather suppliers is they measure there leather in different thickness. It took a while but i finally found out what the difference was and found a conversion chart

Leather Conversion Chart





















































































































InchOuncesIronsMillimeters
1/6410.75 0.4
1/3221.5 0.8
3/6432.251.2
1/164 3.0 1.6
5/645 3.75 2.0
3/3264.52.4
7/6475.252.8
1/886.0 3.2
9/6496.753.6
5/32107.54.0
11/64118.25 4.4
3/16129.0 4.8
13/6413 9.755.2
7/321410.5 5.6
15/641511.256.0
1/41612.0 6.4
17/6417 12.756.8
9/3218 13.57.2


The modern apprentice has a link for Slijpers Hood software.
Slijper's Cannon Indian hood pattern software - shareware

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