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Well, here it is all finished. Thanks for all of your comments. The shoe polish seemed to be what I needed. Thanks to everyone who commented! Moving on to my next holster!

Gregintenn: That sounds good I will try that for sure. Shoe pilosh and saddle soap are totally different animals correct? but the neutral polish contains no dye / color? Thanks for kind words, Katsass: Im in Allen, Texas - its fairly humid about now. Funny you mention drying times.....I only allowed my test piece a few minutes in the sun to dry, long enough to clean the airbrush with some rubbing alcohol and pour in some resolene and start spraying onto my cardboard back stop. well to my surprise rubbing alcohol and resolene combine to make some sort of poormans napalm. Basically water based and alcohol based coatings dont play nice in the same airbrush with out a good cleaning and drying. .... Lesson learned! From your pictures, I can see that I need to back up a little (get a better feathered edge) and work on my corner transitions - they are a little boxy Thanks guys.

Hi Guys, This is my first holster (actually, first my leather project of any kind) I have been able to figure out each step so far, by reading this forum. Thank you all! I'm not sure you would call this a success or not - but hey, its my first one so its a start. So, I dyed a test piece and then sprayed some resolene on it - the resolene seems to leave a tacky feeling that I dont care for. Im wondering if I should finish this thing off with some sort of oil or balm instead of resolene?...... any suggestions? This picture makes it look like I only sprayed the edges, but I sprayed the whole thing, with a few a little extra on the edges to darken. Like they do with the tobacco sunburst guitars... now that I have done it......I'm not so sure I will do it again.....but it seemed like a really cool idea at the time. Thanks, Chris