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Buying Dyes/finishes For The First Time... Help Please.


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Oh, right, now it makes sense=)

Thanks=)

Chavez... no no no.... Fiebings is NOT a Tandy Product. It is just a product Tandy stocks as a convenience to their customers. I would guess that all the "Eco-flo" stuff is based on the fact that the Tandy kits say "ages 8 and up" One wouldn't want their 8 year old getting poisoned by the Spirit dyes... Right? I have a bottle of Omega Dye from the 70s... that says right on it. "Poisonous" contains bla bla bla.... "Can not be made non-poisonous" Yikes!! Yeah, I'm gonna let my 8 year old grand kids get any where near that!!

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Thanks for the info! I started with one of the Eco-flo water based dyes and the leather balm with atom wax. Really just wanted to get the hang of what I am doing. The dye dried pretty uniform and the leather balm looks nice too. I will definitley upgrade when I start doing real projects.

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Thanks for the info! I started with one of the Eco-flo water based dyes and the leather balm with atom wax. Really just wanted to get the hang of what I am doing. The dye dried pretty uniform and the leather balm looks nice too. I will definitley upgrade when I start doing real projects.

JK, Paul Barnett, Mr. Leather himself, started a tutorial on here about carving, stamping, and painting leather. Unfortunately he became ill and couldn't finish it. Whatever paints he was using became unavailable so he uses eco flow from Tandy. The only problem I have with Tandy is all their tools, trim, buckles, whatever aren't made in this country. So I just bought a vintage basket weave tool last night, and paid about a 1/3 more. I've used and abused their paints, and they work fine.

I have an eco flo dye too, emerald. I just looked, didn't even realized I had more than one kind of dye. I love it because I can mix my paints with it to get different shades. Since I didn't realize I had different types, now I know why when I tried to mix white and later red to my Fiebings brown dye, I ended up with a big gunk of nothing, LOL. So I have both.

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