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    hello everyone

    just dug out another box of leather stuff i got from my late brother in law and found this

    not something i would Ever use so i was wondering how much something like this

    would be worth?(how much leather stuff could one man collect)been two years

    and i'm still finding stuff that belonged to him....wow.

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    Gawa, I would agree with Kate that her dye method would work well, but I tend to use a variation on this method because IMHO it is quicker and works better in a production setting where I have twenty items to dye and not one very special one. Try it and see if it works for you.

    I begin by dying the background color (normally the lighter colour) with either a sponge, dauber or soft cloth depending on size. When I get to areas that need to be a different colour I overlap into them by a half-inch or so. The trick is not to make the overlap area too dark so a single coat of dye is usually enough.

    To get the contrasting color over the embossed sections I start by cutting an approx. 12" square of cotton T-shirt material (good job I'm extra-large!) and wadding it tightly to form a hard pad. I then place the pad on the opened dye bottle and invert so the pad gets a shot of dye. I don't want it too wet as that would mean the dye would run into the embossed pattern, in fact I often blow on the pad to evaporate off some of the moisture. I then start at the edge of the work and gently (using an almost dry pad) start to rub the dye onto the work where I want the color to appear. I generally start at a place that doesn't have any embossing to be sure the pad is dry enough before progressing to the embossed section.

    To get a nice dark colour simply rub harder so more dye hits the work. To get the faded look around the edges just rub more gently.

    It really is as simple as that. Take your time and experiment.

    Ray

    UK Ray, Thank You. Very much for the write up it helped me so much. As always still learning.Gawa

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    If you go to to I think all about us off topic you will see a thread on workspaces I am on my iPhone so I can't put the link in here but do a search on say shops or shop spaces should get a hit when I say search I mean search this site right hand uper corner any ways if you can post a pic of the room your seting up in that will help us give in putJosh
    Thank You so much...Pat
    If you go to to I think all about us off topic you will see a thread on workspaces I am on my iPhone so I can't put the link in here but do a search on say shops or shop spaces should get a hit when I say search I mean search this site right hand uper corner any ways if you can post a pic of the room your seting up in that will help us give in putJosh
    Thanks what awesome workshops. I looked at every pic there and saved a few to go by when I move to my new place.Pat.

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    Been working with leather now for about 3-4 months. My brother in law worked with leather for the past 30 some years

    this past April he passed away and left me all his tools and what not. And I had no interest in leather work what so ever

    it would have been the last craft I would think of doing.My dog broke his collar that Garry had made him.So that was my first attempt

    at the craft.It was a love affair.On the 26 of feb.I move into my new home and there is a spare room the the basement which I

    would like to set up as a workshop any ideas of a layout or pics i could maybe work with. Right now with limited space I have to dig every time I do something.Would love to have some ideas for the layout.(pics would be so helpful) Thanks Pat.

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    k... you see my avatar? I want a stamp like that, with all the white cut away, and the black remaining. I have one I did with a dremil and a cutting disc and cut away the black leaving the white.... I cant figure how to cut away the sharp angles of the white parts. BTW, I cut the black out of a stock 1/2 inch piece of stainless.

    Is there a story behind your avatar? is it a viking rune?

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