How To Replace Gemstone Oxide Leather Polishing Pad With Flat Disc
No everyone has the same setup. Mine has a metal banding with a hooked spring attachment.
My disc is an eight inch, so I order ten inch leather so it is much easier to hold in place while trying with three hands and a foot to keep everything together.
I like to add a quarter inch thick piece of foam padding between the leather and disc. It is a lot nicer to have a little give while polishing and not push against the hard metal disc behind.
Soaking the leather in water prior to strapping it down works extremely well. The best part about it is the ability to use pliers and actually pull the wet leather tight from beneath the wire strap all the way around the leather. It stretches nice and tight. Then I place it in the sun to dry. Since the outside of the leather and disc do not get wet, once the leather has dried in the sun, the banding has created a nice tight impression on the leather holding it nice and tight.
I have used both cow and elk hide along with either tin or aluminum oxide polish with this type of setup.
