Greetings from Hot and Humid Florida!
I've taken up Mounted Archery and needed to have an appropriate quiver to minimize the rattle of the arrows - my horse doesn't like the noise. I had the opportunity to use someone's replica of a Turkish Quiver and decided it was right for me. I asked the guy if he could make me one and he suggested that I could make one myself and that he would provide me with his pattern and a list of supplies and tools I would need. I thought, what the heck, I am game!
I bought a side of 5/6 oz tooling leather, 3 different colors of dye (2 Feibings leather dye and an Eco-flo waterbased dye in purple) and the other tools I would need. I asked the Tandy Leather clerk about a product to protect my project when it was completed and they suggested Tan-Kote. I had enough leather to make 4 quivers and cut out all the pattern peices. The first quiver I almost wholly completed was a purple one for my daughetr who also does Mounted Archery.
I also bought a belt blank and hardware (part of this type of quiver) and dyed it purple, asembled it and then to complete it, put a coat of Tan-Kote on it. It turned the belt black and now I am afraid to put a protective finish on the quiver for fear of the same thing happening.
The rest of my quandry is, I already dyed 2 other quivers (they still need to be assembled) and at the recommendation of lots of helpful folks, reapplied dye during the first application so that I would achieved the desired intensity/darkness of the colors I was using. I called the local Tandy and told one of the owner's my delema and he said that 'yes', the Tan-Kote will darken what ever it is applied to and that I should only apply the dye to a shade or two lighter then I am looking for because the Tan-Kote WILL darken it the rest of the way. Now they tell me?!
Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can add a protective finish to these quiver's without turning them all black? One quiver is in Feibings Ox Blood which I darkened to a nice maroon, one is Feibings Russet which I did to a nice dark dappled chocolate and the Eco-Flo purple to a dark purple.
Thanks in advance for your advice and sugestions,
Hilary