- Joined
- Sep 13, 2017
- Messages
- 257
Making a sheath. Using Tandy's leather, which is that sickening "Pink" color. I've been "sun-soaking" it to try and darken it, but we've had 3 weeks of overcast skies and it's not darkening much. Have finished my stamping work but it didn't quite burnish like I wanted, so I mixed a tiny bit of Fiebings Pro Dye with Tan Kote and gently painted the deepest part of the stamped area and sort of feathered it out. (big mistake) Looks great and I'm happy with it. But I wiped on a very thin coat of Neatsfoot oil and noticed immediately the Tan Kote had resisted the oil......................which means it will resist any color I put on top to change the color of the leather that I'm not happy with. I still have to wet fit the knife to the sheath and I'm wondering, since that's a soaking step, do you think if I added some water soluble dye to the water it would color the leather from the back side of the resisted top layer?