DieselTech

Looks great! Nice work. Did you polish that black to get it to Shine like that. Sucker almost blinded me.

They look great. Nice work. What caliber was the Bonds Arms derringer? Thanks.

Looks great. Nice work. Love all your decorative handy work. Looks nice.

Welcome to the group. Bunch of great people here. Enjoy!

Look into the Cobra burnishing machine.

I think it was on a Leather Element with Chuck Dorsett & I think it's oil dyes needed to make a pink dye.

Heck yeah!!! That hat looks awesome! Nice work.

I think you got to mix some sort of light gray dye with a red dye to get a pink dye I believe. Can't remember where I saw this at, but I think it can be done. It might be mahogany & white dye mixed together to get pink. If not you could buy a panel of pink veg-tan leather.

Are you sure it's paint? It could be a hot bluing or possibly black parkerized. Some old tools I think were hot blued. Got any pics. Thanks.

Yeah I think that style of blade/knife design, is referred to as a Viking's Toenail depending what part of the world your in. I like it. That will make a great neck knife. Thanks for sharing.

There is some great guys & gals on this site that can probably walk you thru setting your timing.

Bevel your edges when the leather is dry. Also buy a better edge beveler if you have the funds to do so. You can also sharpen your old edge beveler if you feel up to that sort of task. I recently bought Palosanto edge bevelers & they are a work of art & bevel the edges of leather with ease. They also come with a sharpener & a stropping board.

Look great! Nice artwork. Beautiful red winged blackbird. Like to see that knife as well. I'm a knife junkie! Looks like a norseman inspired knife.

I would check out what @RockyAussie & @Patrick1 offer for holster plates & feed dogs.

OK thanks. I'll check it out.

You might try Appling your dye with a air brush. Then you can fade & darken areas as you like them.

Thanks I appreciate your input.

Welcome to the group. Bunch of great peeps here. Enjoy!

Conceria Walpier Buttero is a Italian veg tan leather. I love it because of the hand/firmness it has & the way the edges burnish up. Really nice leather to work with & tons of colors. I just recently started using some of it for my wallets & I love the end results when finished.

Looks great. Nice work. What color of dye did you use? Almost has a Buttero leather look to me.

I myself would use something bigger than a wool dauber. I myself would use a sponge, that has more coverage area, per pass. I would also have my dye in a dish like a disposable pie pan. I would dip one side of the sponge in the dye real quick like & pull it back out & kinda let the dye soak into the sponge. That way it don't drip. Drips off of the sponge is a bad deal & can wreck a project. Then i would start my dye application process to the project, & continue to repeat till I got my desired results. Uniform color & desired color depth. Try dying some of your scrap leather you cut your hat out of first. That way you have a idea how the dye is going to react to the leather.

That's a hard question to answer I think. Only reason I say that is: it seems like every different piece of leather I have dyed, takes different approaches/dying technique to achieve certain results. Lol now this is what I found when I recently started using Fiebings Pro Dye.

I do everything from a phone & I'm too computer illiterate to figure it out.

Would you be nice enough to tell me, just what it cost/what you charged to sew patches on. I'm just curious. Thanks.

Thanks @Northmount for that tip. I would have not thought about that. Thats a great tip & trick. Thanks.