Vince

Terry, Thank you very much for your advice and the oil tip, I was starting to be fed up to ruin the design at the end with the oil and/or the dyeing. Basically, I need to get the some antique gel for the sheridan + the Bee Natural saddle oil and I should be sorted. I tried to get sheridan dyeing with the standard dye because it is very difficult to get different dye and oil type in Europe, by the way if someone has a good European online shop address. I'll get back to you with feedbacks as soon as I get rid of my neighbour who complains for the noise during the tooling ;-)

Hi Terry, Thanks for your answer, basically my design does not disapear but it get statured with dye and of course my clean bevel get less marked. I hope I make sens maybe I'll attach a picture next time. So you oil before dyeing, ok. Let's say you want to have a ligh dyeing leather (gold color...) how do you ensure that the oil does not darken your leather too much. Each time I use oil my leather darken a lot. To sumarise my last dyeing attemps ended up with: - My Leather become too hard (even when I strecht it during the drying) - My tooling have been ruined - The oil darken my light dye I used a sponge to apply dye, maybe the wool dauber would be more suited. I am certainly not processing it correctly or carfully enough. Let say that when I'll be more successfull with my dyeing, is there a way to acheive the sheridan style deying without get dye ? Vincent

Hi all, I am just started enjoying tooling my leather and fed up wasting it during the dyeing process. Let me explain... when I start dyeing using fiebings oil saddle tan, I am facing the following issues: - First I damp my tooled leather before applying the dyeing and then during the process my design start to absorb my dye (using a brush) and the tooled part start disappearing full of dye. - A quick answer would be to use less dye but is it really the issue? Because it will be the case when I will oil my leather to keep it flexible. Any tips? - Second issue is the leather get dry and hard after the dyeing, do I need to oil it after, before the dyeing... Any dyeing best practice would be appreciated. Another point, should I use the ecoflo antique gel leather dye which seems to better suit for tooled leather?