Did I mess up making vinegaroon

[fredk]

5 hours ago, crazytailorlady said:

Update guys!

I bought white vinegar but every hardware store somehow went out of stock for steel wool so, improvisation time. I took a rust brush and scraped the life out of a dishwashing woolie. Then I cut it into tiny pieces using scissors. I also got some pieces of an iron nail (removed the rust). I left all of that covered in vinegar in a glass jar. In a few hours there were bubbles everywhere. I mixed it a bit. In 12 hours I had 'roon of moderate strenght, in 2 days it blackens amazing. I'm working on a project right now so I'll post images when its done. A great thanks for all of the help!

P.S. I neutralized blackened leather by soaking it in a sodium hydrogen bicarbonate solution. Color holds.

A. great !, well done  

b. no need to remove rust from the nails, basically that's what you are doing, making an iron-rust solution

c. depending on your local water, just a wash in water, or water with a very small amount of soap in it will be sufficient to neutralise

d. depending on the tanning of your leather you may find the colour darkening, or deepening as time goes by as the iron reacts to the tannins in the leather

[crazytailorlady]

44 minutes ago, fredk said:

A. great !, well done  

b. no need to remove rust from the nails, basically that's what you are doing, making an iron-rust solution

c. depending on your local water, just a wash in water, or water with a very small amount of soap in it will be sufficient to neutralise

d. depending on the tanning of your leather you may find the colour darkening, or deepening as time goes by as the iron reacts to the tannins in the leather

Thanks! And ok, I'll use water instead of soda next time, seems like a better idea.

 

[Leescustomleather]

On a side note, vinegaroon will also darken some woods like oak and after a couple of months it will become less potent, and you can get some very nice gray colors from it for leather which I know of no other way to achieve

[fredk]

Weak vinegaroon on oak will give it that grey-ish look of very aged oak. We, my father & I, used to make it and use it on oak furniture, doors et cetera. We didn't know it then as vinegaroon, just as 'that jar of wood greying stuff' My father used to make it using old diluted car battery acid. Mixed with a pot of tea it worked on other woods as well. The tea added tannins to it which some woods don't have

[crazytailorlady]

14 hours ago, fredk said:

Weak vinegaroon on oak will give it that grey-ish look of very aged oak. We, my father & I, used to make it and use it on oak furniture, doors et cetera. We didn't know it then as vinegaroon, just as 'that jar of wood greying stuff' My father used to make it using old diluted car battery acid. Mixed with a pot of tea it worked on other woods as well. The tea added tannins to it which some woods don't have

When I tested my batch after only a few hours it gave me a light gray color on some light tan leather. I suppose that if I took our the wool then it would have kept the graying effect.

[dikman]

It may darken a little more after oiling.

[Doc Reaper]

On 8/8/2022 at 12:47 PM, Chakotay said:

here's my vinegaroon recipe:

 

Where does the brown dye  in the pickle jar come from in the second video???