here's help in even dyeing

[pete]

I had a belt with minimal tooling that I just finished. Most of the belt was dyed chocolate and I was concerned that the dye around the tooling would be splochy as I had to put it on carefully with a fine brush. Sure enough I couldn't get it on thick or even enough to match the belt that was saturated with a sponge of dye.

BICK'S TO THE RESCUE!!!!!

Sure enough- I poured enough dye into the Bick's to get the color that I wanted. Took a paper towel and rubbed it on.

Not only did I get a perfect dye job but the Bick's put all of the oils back into the leather. Tallk about "one step dyeing"

Bo at Springfield leather told me about it - this is ALL that he uses for his custom boots- to oil AND dye.

pete

[Daggrim]

Sounds great, but what's Bick's? I'm a rookie.

Daggrim

[celticleather]

I'm curious about this, too. The only Bick's I'm aware of is hamburger relish . . . surely not . . ?

[Luke Hatley]

WOULD YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE SOME PHOTOS OF THIS ?

[abn]

There's been some good discussion on Bick's... For anyone who wants to learn more, just do a search on "Bick" and the old topics will come up. Happy reading!

Edited February 7, 2009 by abn