Theonidas

So do you guys think this piece is dyed yellow first to achieve the brightness in the middle, then airbrushed with a dark brown from the edges? That's my guess anyway. I got my piece tooled yesterday so I'm almost ready to take a stab at the coloring.

Haha - thanks for the info. sounds pretty straight forward & I'm sure I can find a couple demos on youtube to watch before I try it out.

Thanks for the replies. I've always wanted to try my hand at airbrushing - looks like now I'll have my chance! so I'm guessing you can just shoot regular leather dye like fiebings through the airbrush and just blend it in from the edges?

I'm very new to leather working but getting started on my 2nd project which will be a knife sheath for my brother-in-law & hoping I can get some tips on how to get a color affect similar to the picture below. I'm not sure if there's a different name for it in leather working but I'm a guitar player so I would call it a "Sunburst" color fade because it looks just like the classic sunburst style guitars. I'm comfortable with carving & dying the silhouettes but it's the background effect that I'm not sure about. Any tips or suggestions? Thanks in advance!