Leather Roughing Tool

Leather Roughing Tool.

 6" x 1" Handle, 1" x 1.75" Abrasive Pad.

Prepare your leather surfaces for superior adhesion with the Leather Roughing Tool, an essential item for shoemakers, leatherworkers, and repair professionals. Designed to enhance glue bonding on smooth or finished leathers, this tool features a durable handle and an abrasive pad that makes surface preparation fast, effective, and precise.

The tool’s compact body measures 6 inches long by 1 inch wide, providing a secure grip and excellent control during use. At the tip, an abrasive pad measuring 1" x 1.75" offers ample surface area for roughing up leather before applying contact cement, rubber cement, or other adhesives. The grit of the pad is aggressive enough to cut through slick finishes, waxes, and topcoats—giving glue something to grip without damaging the structure of the material.

Ideal for use in sole preparation, patching, layering, or bonding leather to synthetic components, this tool is equally useful in shoemaking, bag building, upholstery, and general leathercraft.

Features:

• Tool Size: 6" x 1" – comfortable, compact, and easy to handle.
• Abrasive Pad Size: 1" x 1.75" – generous surface area for efficient roughing.
• Purpose: Prepares leather for gluing by scuffing smooth surfaces.
• Enhances adhesive performance on slick or coated leathers.
• Ideal for use with contact cement, rubber cement, and other leather adhesives.
• Suitable for shoemaking, repair work, patching, and multi-layer projects.
  
• Lightweight and easy to maneuver into tight or curved spaces.

A must-have for any leatherworking bench, the Leather Roughing Tool ensures strong, lasting bonds by giving your adhesives the best possible surface to hold onto. Whether you're building a boot, reinforcing a seam, or gluing soles, this tool helps you do it right from the start.