Any Idea What Color Dye This Is?

[Shooter McGavin]

I have a customer who asked for his holster to be as close to the color of the middle holster as I can get it. I bought some Fiebings Medium Brown but it's way too dark.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks

[celticleather]

Looks like the sort of result I get from Fiebing's Professional Oil Dye, Saddle Tan, but it can vary from one hide to the next!

[JustKate]

"Army tan", "English tan", or "saddle tan" is my guess.

Kate

[marine mp]

Looks like it may be natural Neats Foot or EVOO with a Kiwi Nuetral finish. Semper-fi MIke

Edited January 23, 2011 by marine mp

[LNLeather]

Howdy

Did you know you could go to Fiebing,com

and look at their color-chart? That might be a good place to start.

My guess is British Tan... Sure Hope this helps.

Edited January 30, 2011 by LNLeather

[Luke Hatley]

that color looks to me like Wickett & Craig's Chestnut colored leather. (my 2 cents.)

[BConklin]

because of the differences in our monitors of course there's going to be some variation in what we see BUT - holding a holster that I just made up to the screen I'd say it's a dead ringer for the color I got using Fieblings Tan, thinned slightly with denatured alcohol, and followed by wet forming the holster with the butt end of a stainless steel butter knife with the gun inside.

[TwinOaks]

I get pretty close to that with Fiebing's British Tan, airbrushed on, with a little sun tanning to bring out the natural tones. When using the AB, you can vary the saturation of the color pretty easily, and slowly build up to the tint you want. The sun tanning part.....experience and taking notes on tanning times.

[particle]

How are you applying the dye? That will make a huge difference on the resulting final color. With my workflow (airbrush, mold, dry, oil, seal), that's the color I get with Herman Oak natural leather, and (always) Fiebing's Pro dyes applied with 3 airbrush coats.

This holster was dyed Light Brown, Antiqued with Dark Brown, assembled, formed, oiled, and then finished. The discoloration along the stitch line is from the leather being sealed prior to the antique - it made the water absorb so slowly into the leather that the color migrated a bit.

This holster was dyed using Saddle Tan, minus the antique.

[LNLeather]

How are you applying the dye? That will make a huge difference on the resulting final color. With my workflow (airbrush, mold, dry, oil, seal), that's the color I get with Herman Oak natural leather, and (always) Fiebing's Pro dyes applied with 3 airbrush coats.

This holster was dyed Light Brown, Antiqued with Dark Brown, assembled, formed, oiled, and then finished. The discoloration along the stitch line is from the leather being sealed prior to the antique - it made the water absorb so slowly into the leather that the color migrated a bit.

This holster was dyed using Saddle Tan, minus the antique.

I Just gotta say... Wow! Really Niiiiiiiice Work!

[Shooter McGavin]

Wow, lots of activity today! Thank you for all the replies!

I can 100 percent for certain say that the color IS NOT Fiebings Medium Brown.

I've managed to come close enough with Eco-Flo water based dyes, using 15 parts Canyon Tan to 3 parts Bison Brown.

I've not tried any of the oil based dyes, but sure would like to one day.

My application method with the eco-flo involves a sponge and a bowl of dye, although I've recently "upgraded" to a small pump spray bottle and some latex gloves to "massage" the dye in once it is sprayed on.

I'm not real hi-tech yet.

Thanks again!

[Tree Reaper]

particle

What thread would that be in the stitching?

thanks.

Kevin.

How are you applying the dye? That will make a huge difference on the resulting final color. With my workflow (airbrush, mold, dry, oil, seal), that's the color I get with Herman Oak natural leather, and (always) Fiebing's Pro dyes applied with 3 airbrush coats.

This holster was dyed Light Brown, Antiqued with Dark Brown, assembled, formed, oiled, and then finished. The discoloration along the stitch line is from the leather being sealed prior to the antique - it made the water absorb so slowly into the leather that the color migrated a bit.

This holster was dyed using Saddle Tan, minus the antique.

[particle]

particle

What thread would that be in the stitching?

thanks.

Kevin.

That's 277 top and bottom, and I believe it's Natural color (maybe White, but probably natural). I ordered it from Tippmann Industrial.