Old Dogs And New Tricks

[rosiart]

Has anyone tried these waterstains with items with a lot of tooling or with a Sheridan style finishing? The Tandy video only shows these used in an all over colour application. Also has anyone used them for a painted application? If so, I would love to hear your thoughts on them. thanks.

[Leather Girl]

I have recently tried the waterstain and was also impressed with it. One of the more impressive things was the fact by accident a piece of it went in the washing machine and dryer. It came out very well and nothing on my clothes and nothing off the leather. Glad it was a trial piece that ended up there.

Lesson: do not stick leather in your pocket and not check them before washing.

I call it my blonde trick.

Randi-Lee

[Spinner]

How about stuff that will get wet at some point? Saddle Bags, fork bag, seats and things like that. It seems like some are trying super hard to get this eco stuff to work almost as good as what we are already using. I wouldn't mind using it as long as it was a better product. Shwos what I know, the little bit I've used eco I always wet the leather down first, I didn't know most put it on dry. This has only been the standard eco not the pro line, maybe the pro line is a lot better I don't know.

Has anyone tried these waterstains with items with a lot of tooling or with a Sheridan style finishing? The Tandy video only shows these used in an all over colour application. Also has anyone used them for a painted application? If so, I would love to hear your thoughts on them. thanks.

Yes to both. As for using on bike gear, I use the waterstains as a 'top color coat' to Pro Oil dyes as my base/penetrating coats. Pro Oil dyes, while they penetrate well and look great still have a residual golden tone no matter how many coats and I have never been fond of the "dye blue first and then black" trick as you get a midnight black, not a coal black. Most OEM bike parts are coal black vinyl so matching is important for my bibs and such. Two light coats of the Waterstains Black over 3 wet-on-wet coats of Pro Oil dye gives excellent penetration, the dark solid coal black color and no color variation. I do this on all my bibs, tooled or blank and have used it with paint brushes to outline some of the two tone paint jobs I do like the POW/MIA logo like this:

Here are a couple to show the color difference:

Pro Oil dye only:

Pro Oil + Waterstains

As you can see, the color of the black is so much more true in the second one it almost fades into the black paint job, that's how I like them to look.

Cheers,

Chris

[rosiart]

Thanks for the reply, Chris. I love the deep black you are getting with this application.

To pursue this farther, have you or possibly anyone else, tried the waterstains with the typical Sheridan style finishing, with the supersheen resist and then applying the stain?