How Do You Break In Leather Tool Pouches?
For a week or more, a new tool pouch is stiff and tight and hard to work with. But a leather tool pouch is just like a baseball glove, a saddle or a holster; use it, and it will adapt to you. That is the magic of leather, and it is a property that nylon and canvas simply don’t have. Use the same techniques for breaking in a baseball glove or a holster to adapt your tool belt to you. Select nubuck or suede-surface tool pouches. Smooth-grain leather (the kind with a smooth outer surface) has a natural stiffness to it, while the nubuck or suede-surface tool pouches will loosen far more quickly. Fill your pouches—overfill them—with nuts, bolts, socket wrenches, gravel or whatever it takes to stretch and break in the leather. Wear the pouches constantly. When you first wear it, spray the leather with lighter fluid, or with a one-to-one mixture of water and rubbing alcohol. This will help the leather to stretch naturally. Soap your tool belt with glycerin soap, which manufacturers recomm
