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No offence taken, thank you very much for your input, really appreciate it! Now i just got to get a new sheat of leather and start over again, hopefully without doing any fatal mistakes this time

I see. Well, nothing else to do than make a new one and consider the failed one as some good practise. I did spend some time watching youtube clips about making leather sheaths and realized that its not very uncommon that people use their oven to dry leather... Anyway, is it okay to put a fan at the blanks or should I just let them dry slowly?

This is my first leatherproject ever. my problem is that the dyeing of the leather failed somewhat. What I did is that after soaking some of the leather parts I decided to dry them in a oven at about 70 degrees celcius. Later I made some more part wich i decided to let dry in air overnight. The problem that occured now when I'm dyeing the parts is that the parts I dried in the oven won't absorb the dye in the same way as the other parts do. The dye stays on the surface of the leather and won't penetrate as supposed, making future scratches mush more apparant. I don't have to very high demands of the look of the sheat, it's mostly supposed to be functional. But is there some simple way to fix or at least improve the ability to absorb the dye?