Dyeing leather

[Darren8306]

I'm as guilty as anyone with regards to poor video choices. In an unrelated story, my dyeing is sometimes unsatisfactory.

 

Knowing your affection for books, @chuck123wapati, can you suggest a book with good info on dyeing leather?

[Samalan]

5 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

shoulda been titled dying.

If it takes you that long and you waste that much product and charge your time by the hour your ripping people off. 

This isn't nothin though Dont google How to make a wallet videos if you want to keep your sanity. Seems you gotta be an origami expert to make a friggin wallet nowadays. 

Now I could do a thousand words on this lol don't get me started on you tube leather videos. 

Chuck, could you just do a few words on the part where he tips the quart jug, LOL? I'd love to hear it.

[bladegrinder]

That was…..hilarious?  Here this guy try’s to show how it’s done, slowly and very methodically. And create a friggin mess in the process. This. probably chases people away from doing leatherwork more then it does anything else.                               If this person really wants to top the charts with this video he should have done it on his brand new kitchen countertop, with his wife standing next to him when he spilled all that dye. 😆

Edited Thursday at 06:09 PM by bladegrinder

[chuck123wapati]

18 hours ago, Samalan said:

Chuck, could you just do a few words on the part where he tips the quart jug, LOL? I'd love to hear it.

Lol i will get kicked for sure.  But it's not entirely his fault. That guy had some poor maternal upbringing there. Saw it right off, too. See, his mom had two choices: either slap him upside his head for spilling and then teach him to clean it up and pour his own milk for his fruit loops, or pour it for him every day of his life while he sits on his butt watching Looney Tunes. Guess which choice she made lol prolly an only child. Trying to spread peanut butter on a samich would probably traumatize the poor guy. See, that's a mess made from ignorance; he just wasn't taught better. But hold on, you can't write him off, you can tell he has had a lot of experience in this and has learned something very valuable at some point in his life, and it's actually a way to compensate for his lack of maternal training. Always wear the same color of clothes as the dye you are using. Now that shows some savvy right there, and if you're really clumsy, maybe paint the walls the same too.!! 

Now to tell on myself, about a month ago i was working on a project, and it came time to use a little nfo. Pulled out a fresh quart, opened it, poured some in a can, set it down, reached over it for a paper towel, and knocked it over, glug glug glug.  Set it back up, Cussed like a sailor all the while franticly moving crap, reached over it to get a paper towel, glug glug glug hit it again. I can't blame it on ignorance.

Edited yesterday at 11:57 AM by chuck123wapati

[dikman]

Maybe you're just accident-prone?

[Cumberland Highpower]

Leather dye just seems to have a mind of it's own.   Being thinner that water it has  slightly different properties and seems to run and spatter places you wouldn't expect it to!