Went to a furniture presentation several months ago where they were
talking about leather covered furniture. In addition to splitting
hides thinner they do this other thing. It is called bonded leather.
It is made by grinding the scraps, hides, whatever cannot be used
otherwise, to a powder and then bonding this dust together to make the
"bonded leather." Manfacturers can press it as thin as the want, and
the as mentioned earlier, apply a finish. It will last a few years,
but wear spots do wear the "finish" off. This all came about b/c a
company in Hickory, NC will, for a "few" dollars more, custom make
leather whatever you want. If I remember correctly (risky at best)
they had pics of a custom tooled leather Cadillac interior they had
done. Impressive if you like that sort of thing. NFI. Could probably
dig up their name if anyone would like.
Bob Johnson
BJ8
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