mreams99

Thanks. I may post my results if it turns out well. It doesn’t seem like this is the place to share details, so I’ll probably just post before and after pictures.

It looks like I’ll be going this alone. Wish me luck!

I just remembered that it’s “smoky grey” leather. Has nobody done this?

Hello, I’ve worked with leather since I was about 8-9 years old, starting with 4H. Over the last few years, I have refinished several pairs of shoes and boots by stripping the old polish and re-dying them to a different color. I would like to do this to a pair of boots now, but it’s a different type of leather. The leather is a thick “dusty grey” waxy/oily leather (possibly CXL). I would like to redye them to match the colors of the college I graduated from (purple and grey). Is there anything that I need to do differently with this leather? For example, do I need to thin my dye with something other than alcohol? Is there anything special that I need to do prior to applying the dye? (I normally scrub them pretty well with acetone.) Thank you.