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This stuff is hard to handle on bigger surfaces. I easily get stains, so I gave up on it.

Before I took this shot I buffed it with wax and the wax would take some of the dark colour, so I was not soooo happy about that. But I will test it more thoroughly in the next few days.

Do you have some pictures of the result? I am quite curious! The powder works well, I will show pictures later.

Really? Isn't it easy to wipe out of the embossed areas? I tried a version of Dr. Chase's recipe but used a dark pigment in stead of lamp black: doesn't work, crumbles out of the embossing. Oil paints should be better to my feeling. But I now got a powder of a fiend which produces very nice and - he says - waterproof result. He gets it from Italy and it might contain - or just be - asphalt powder (the stuff that is being used in etching so an artist shop might sell it). Needs to be dissolved with turpentine to a paste, so that sounds quite waterproof ! I will test it soon. I also came across this funny recipe, but I am not sure this will produce good results: http://www.ehow.com/...uing-stain.html

I am looking for a waterproof antique method myself. Did you or anybody try this recipe? I love the looks of Eco Flow gel antique on the bare leather but even with a good finnish, it gets washed away from within when the leather is soaked (see attachement). Applied onto a finish it does not look good at all. In Holland there is no Wyo-sheen or anything like that available, as far as I know.