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  7. Posted · Edited by Jaymack · Report reply

    I don't have a lot of experience except that I've made plenty of mistakes while learning about leather. Leather is a skin and reacts accordingly. Put some neatsfoot oil on it and place it in the sun and it tans and changes color. heat it too much and it burns. I struggle with the time it takes to case it properly while waiting to carve and stamp it, but every time I try to rush the process, I damage the leather. Just my 2 cents.

    Thank goodness for black dye!

    John

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    I have used eco-flo briar brown highlight stain and always liked the color. I liked it so much that I bought a quart of it. On one project, it had a red /pink hue that I really didn't like. I thought it was the same problem as you said you had, so I shook the bottle more and tried again on a couple scrap pieces of veg tanned leather. On some leather, it was perfect, and on one scrap piece from a side that was tanned in Mexico or Brazil, it had the same red effect that I didn't like. I've read in this forum that each tannery can use differnt chemical to treat their leather. I assume that this can effect every stain that you can use whether it's Fiebings or Eco-Flo.

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    I know that nobody drinks alcohol in this forum, but I made a bunishing tool using the cork from a bottle of wine. I had to upgrade from the twist-off caps from my normal bottle of Ripple that I drink to a fance bottle of wine to get a cork! The cork worked a lot better than I expected.

    I inserted a screw, with some glue on it, into the center of the cork. The screw was the diameter needed to fit my dremel

    Cut the head off the screw and sanded the metal to eliminate any sharp edges.

    Put the screw and cork in my dremel and ran it through some sandpaper to help center it.

    used a round file to create a slot in the cork.

    sanded the slot with some 400 grit sandpaper

    Used Bob Parks instructional on finishing edges.

    I expect that the cork has a limited life span, but I'm sure I can force myself to drink another bottle of wine!

    I will post a picture of the edges of the guitar strap I am working on once the dye is dry and I complete the project.

    John

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    Thanks for the quick response Rob. I also enjoyed going through your website. You make some great looking stuff!

    I don't play guitar, and this may be a stupid question, but how do you attach the strap to the neck of the guitar? I'm assuming that the adjustable end of the strap attaches to the knob at the base of the guitar, but I'm not sure about the other end.

    Thanks,

    John

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    I've only been working with leather for only 6 months, but I'll share a similar story. Being the patient person that I am, I set a piece of leather on a metal framing square above my woodburning fireplace to speed up the drying process when I was casing the leather for carving. A couple of minutes later, I picked up the leather and discovered that I had permanently burned the leather with the inches scale from the framing square. This is when I realized that as tough as leather is, it's still just cow skin and reacts accordingly.

    John

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