Troy Burch
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I have checked the Stohlman books but they are not useful. I have also made a deep research on internet and there is no system I can use to mix real colors and obtain a certain color.
However I have one last method : the empiric one.
I am quite sure that mixing blue and yellow, the result will be green, but mixing red, yellow and blue, will I obtain some kind of brown? If yes, it is only a matter of proportions and I will do many experiments to find the exact formula for different shades of browns and other colors.
I knew that fiebing oil dyes were spirit based, despite the name, so I think that using normal alcohol I can brighten up every color.
Did you see the how to make custom colors out of the basic colors chart? It gives you the exact formula for every question you have asked.
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Al Stolman has a chart just for what your talking about. It's either in the pictoral or figure carving finesse book, they are for spirit dyes but I don't see why they wouldn't work for oil dyes.
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Does anyone know where I can find some 3/8" and 1/2" slotted conchos? I looked at Rio Rancho and their biggest is 3/16.
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David, that really depends on what kind of leather work your going to start off doing. Floral? figure carving? bags? billfolds? holsters? The basic tool list are different.
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Look in the for sale section, theres been some posted there recently.
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He says they redress the old ways so they won't be lost to future generations. Sounds like another repeat of Al Stolman's stuff thats fairly cheap at Tandy, I could be wrong but thats the impression I got.
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sure a square knot will work, just tap it flat. With the thread going twice thru the holes it probly doesn't need a knot with a good glue like Barge.
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I'm guessing he sewed, left the ends between the fold then glued the fold down.
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Someone posted a video on just that a few days ago on this forum. It will probly be in the howto section.
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Ray, It was a local buy sell trade site, I only had to go about 4 miles to pick it up. They come up every now and then for anywhere from 25 to 40 dollars. The player is built in, you just slide the cd-dvd into a slot on the side of the tv. Good luck finding one they are really nice to have.
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Sorry Ray, can't help you there, spent too much time trying to avoid badge cases to get a good look at them.
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Ray, I put a wall mounted tv-dvd-cd player with remote in my shop. It's awesome for that, got it and the wall mount for 20 dollars on a buy sell trade site on facebook. It's worth the trouble. I don't have cable or an antenna so no tv but I can play music or watch dvds.
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Ray, the fannanater posted the link to Chuck Burrows on your other post.
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Thats nice, the stitching is very nice.
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Chuck Burrows has a dvd if you want fancy ones.
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Dusty Johnson has a video but I don't know about a book.
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I really like them patterns. Nice and busy without a lot of background. To bad I don't do saddles.
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Does that actually cut the leather or just crease it?
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Is that another embossing plate?
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Super sheen isn't a very good resister, use a lacquer based product like Clear Lac. the antique is meant to highlight the cuts and low lying areas, the tooling burnish takes care of the rest. I use the Feibling gel, work it in good then wipe off excess, no drying time. After the antique drys buff it with something soft before the final finish to get rid of what little streaks you might have.
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I looked on Tandy's website and couldn't find anything but the saddle lac spray, which I was told took the place of neat lac spray and was basically the same thing (they're both lacquer finishes). I couldn't find any liquid lacquer product at all. I'll look in my shop tomorrow and see for sure what it is. I used neat lac for years and really liked it but I can't tell any difference in the two. Long story short any laquer finish will work good.
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Are you in the USA?
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Rewet it and if you can't rewet the whole piece feather it out away from the stains, works most of the time.
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Thanks camano ridge but they don't have any that small.