janaka

oh my God!! finally a shop near (but not so near) me

leong yik hing101, jln sultan, 50000 kl tel:20786836/4571 i have a colleague name Firdaus Hilmy too. haha, are you happen to be working with a bank?

thanks, it was from scraps referring to pattern from book

thanks MikeG made to order

glue papers onto leather, let dry, then either coat it with transparent paint or with mink oil. if with mink oil, you have to cover with cotton cloth and iron it, apply few layers.

thanks Jazznow, that bag is with me no more, next time i'll take more pic of my project.

thanks

youre most welcome, have you done it?

you bet I will. Haha

i cant help myself thinking that whatever we use onto wood are applicable onto leather. :x

on the other hand, have anyone tried before using wood shellac onto leather? the paint shop owner told me someone did that, i'm eager to try.

no fear buddy, the shop owner changed for me, i had did what you guys taught me, tried on scraps until i get the tone i want, and i even got up to 9-1 mix. also i used rug as you suggested, the result is awesome, color is even too. thank you thank you thank you mate. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: perhaps the pigments of your bottle of fiebing's somehow ended up in mine.

gee, i wrongly got a bottle of thinner instead of denatured alcohol, i even wrongly told the shopkeeper that i want "un-nature alcohol".. how silly i am. :head_hurts_kr: :head_hurts_kr:

thanks Chief, i must stock up the denatured thing as i like dyeing a lot, thanks for the tips. oh, it's as dark as coffee in the bottle. i'll get some of the denatured thing tomorrow.

yes, i like this color too, i'll make into something else if it doesnt go lighter. thanks mate.

oh, fascinating, color might change after days? i'll hope for miracle... fingers cross.

3 parts are alcohol? what's a denatured? can i use those methanol from the drug store? good thing i have another spare piece of strap. by the way, is it each bottle with same color labeling will end up with different tone? i mean huge differences, i was expecting lighter brown, something like biscuit kind of brown.

it's a real thing, a 36 inches strap i cut to make me dad a belt, it's the darker one. the first dip i brushed on was uneven, so i ran another brush with a second dip. my bad.

oh... thank you guys, i thought beeswax supposedly to be more light yellowish, which i found when i ran through drawers from the shop, those are in clean bright yellow and much more harder.

is this seems light brown to you? sigh, wonder what went wrong. :head_hurts_kr: :head_hurts_kr:

encounter this funny looking thing that the shop said it's for waxing thread, a cobbler came into the shop and i grabbed this change to ask him. he said yes, they had been using for waxing thread. hmm... so i bought one to try it myself. it's easy to use as compare to previously where i used to iron candle wax into threads, and it has mild aroma. the only thing i don't like about it is that it tend to be a little too sticky. anyone know what this is? [gst +8, 29/1/2013 0038h] oh it's beeswax...