joban31

Hello all, I'm new to world of leather work, and I've been experimenting with some different dyes on scrap before moving on to my actual project. The problem I've had with the blue dye is that it's turning green on me. Searching the forums here, I've found that this seems to be an issue with Tandy's Eco-Flo products. Before going back to my local Tandy store and claiming it's a bad batch of dye, I wanted to try and remedy the issue on my own. I haven't been doing any surface prep, since the video I watched didn't indicate this was necessary, so that's one thing I want to try Oxalic acid, denatured alcohol, lemon juice and a weak bleach solution have all been mentioned as potential cleaning agents, with oxy acid being the most common. Barkeepers Friend has oxy acid as the active ingredient, and I have some at home - would that be an acceptable source of oxy acid, or would there be concern over inactive ingredients. Can anyone recommend a better source? I also have some Angelus blue, which yields a much nicer color but seems a bit more fiddly to me than the Eco-Flo. I'd prefer a water based product for a variety of reasons, but right tool for the job and such. Denatured alcohol would be the spirit of choice to cut the angelus, correct? Lastly, any other dye manufacturers I should look at besides Eco-Flo, Angelus and Fiebings? Many thanks. John