Vithonil

Problem is I do like it, I love the look when its all unused. I followed his tutorials as well, I feel like I've watched every available tutorial on YouTube about this.. No idea why my paste just rubs off immediately. I want it to look fresh at least a year or two, not only 1 hour Not really true, I do like em, I just want them to stay looking good for more than 2 hours of wear, especially for the price and the hype around their products

Yes true. I am doing it your exact way though. I use oil, dye backgrounds, use pro resist to seal the leather, antique paste, wipe off, seal with 2 coats of resolene, let dry. No idea what I'm doing wrong.. maybe it is my leather, no idea

Hi folks, Above pictures are of my tooled belt. I have followed a dozen tutorials at this point, and all of them say to use the antique paste and seal it with resolene. I have done that. I have let it dry completely, a little, applied resolene when the paste was still wet. I have applied the resolene with sheep skin, a rag, a sponge, and even bought a goddamn airbrush. I have sealed with tan kote, and with leather sheen. But its always the same: within hours of wearing the belt the paste just crumbles out and falls off. Why do I even bother? Its getting really frustrating. I cannot get the paste to stick to my belt and not wear off within mere hours of wear. Awful! And the antique gels are even worse.. If anybody has some ideas for this please let me know this is so stupid.

Hey folks, I have run into some issues with the antique pastes from Fiebings, more specifically, their application process. I can't get the paste to "stick" around for a prolonged period of time, even without wear and tear. The first picture is of a basket weave belt I made. After using the paste on it, every little indentation would have a thick, dark brown residue on it, just like it should after using antique paste. I then used an airbrush to coat the belt in two layers of undiluted (!) Fiebing's leather sheen. However, after a couple of days, the identations became lighter and lighter, as the leftover paste slowly fell out and after a now, after a couple of weeks, the belt is a uniform color. So why would I bother using antique paste? I can just dye it with an airbrush and save money and material. Kind of disappointing. I figured it was because I used too little protection on the belt so on my next one I made sure to apply a couple more layers of leather sheen. However, this time, it must have been to much sheen, as it began to peel like old skin off the belt and it fell off in flakes. After removing all excess sheen, the paste also disappeared. On my next photo, the same issue is visible. The lower pieces of the leaves used to be filled with antique paste, giving them a nice, darker color than the rest of the leaves, which is what I figure this paste is for. However, even without even touching this piece due to time issues, most of the paste has not only disappeared completely, but it happened so fast that during the first night of letting it dry and settle, most of the paste had vanished literally overnight. I reapllied paste with a dauber specifically where I needed it, but it vanished again and again. Somtimes, the "pools" of paste in the indentations would turn from a dark brown color to a beige color. God knows why. In some places, however, the paste is still there. I really do not know what I'm doing wrong and since leathercraft isn't very common where I am from, I have nobody to ask in person. So please, if you could give me any pointers, it would be much appreciated.