Some Tips On How To Use Antique

[LNLeather]

This is some Antiquing info I got from Raymond Tipton of duckcreektraders

I thought this might be of some help to others. There are many ways to add antiquing to your work.

For many different results you can put your resist over some areas, painted or not, or you can put the

resist on the entire piece and then use the antique paste. I am sure others may do this differently, with

different products - for instance sometimes I just use the antique paste to color a coaster (I love the color of

undiluted Antique Saddle tan) and then when the piece is dry I put on more Antique Saddle tan to fill in the

low spots and then wipe with a paper towel, leaving the antique in to highlight the low spots.

Please, feel free to add your tips or pictures too

[pete]

Nice job! What rope tool did you use? TLF, custom....?

pete

[Bluesman]

Wow, nice Tutorial. I used to use antique direct on the finished project. Lately I have been doing over a Neat-lac resist which I like and thne again over a different color. For example light or nuetral and then dark brown or dyes. The combinations are endless. THanks for sharing. Also your rope is killer. Now give it up what was the stamp?

[LNLeather]

Nice job! What rope tool did you use? TLF, custom....?

pete

The rope tool was made by Raymond Tipton of bunkhousetools and he used his emboss roll #164

It is really cool how he did that, because you can't tell where he started and where he ended with the emboss roll.

Please, feel free to add your tips or pictures too. I learned a lot from this tutorial, and like Bluesman said "The combinations are endless"

[Charliewz]

This is some Antiquing info I got from Raymond Tipton of duckcreektraders

I thought this might be of some help to others. There are many ways to add antiquing to your work.

For many different results you can put your resist over some areas, painted or not, or you can put the

resist on the entire piece and then use the antique paste.

Thanks a lot for the tips. Tried it yesterday and like the way it works. I did two pieces to test. I used Fiebings hi-liter and Eco-Flo gel, they both came out about the same after resisting (Satin Sheen) the whole piece.

The piece on the right is hi-liter and gel antique on the left. Both are Saddle Tan.

Have to figure out how much resist to put on to get background darker. Just experiment to see if I can use less.

Now off to practice more, to get it where I want it.

thanks for all your help, Charlie

Guess I should re-size the pics first. Will next time.

Edited April 22, 2012 by Charliewz

[LNLeather]

Thanks a lot for the tips. Tried it yesterday and like the way it works. I did two pieces to test. I used Fiebings hi-liter and Eco-Flo gel, they both came out about the same after resisting (Satin Sheen) the whole piece.

The piece on the right is hi-liter and gel antique on the left. Both are Saddle Tan.

Have to figure out how much resist to put on to get background darker. Just experiment to see if I can use less.

Now off to practice more, to get it where I want it.

thanks for all your help, Charlie

Guess I should re-size the pics first. Will next time.

Hi Charlie

There is so much to learn - I'm happy you found this to be of some help.

ps.

I know some folks complain about large photos but I have learned to either

download the picture and view that

or

if you hold down the command key and then press the - key,

that will down size your window and you can see the picture easily.

Just make sure to count how many times you hit the - key

and then........ to put it back to normal hold down the command key and hit the + key

3 to size down and 3 to size up - will put it all back to normal on my computer.

[Northmount]

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if you hold down the command key and then press the - key,

that will down size your window and you can see the picture easily.

Just make sure to count how many times you hit the - key

and then........ to put it back to normal hold down the command key and hit the + key

3 to size down and 3 to size up - will put it all back to normal on my computer.

control 0 (zero on the number pad) will take you to the browser's normal zoom, 100% I think. I'm on an iPad at the moment so can't try it.

CTG

[LNLeather]

control 0 (zero on the number pad) will take you to the browser's normal zoom, 100% I think. I'm on an iPad at the moment so can't try it.

CTG

Hi CTG

You are Absolutely Right! Thank You... Control 0 (zero on the number pad) does take me to my browser's normal view.

Thanks sooo much. I am sure that will be helpful to other as well.

Thanks again for your help!

[DoubleC]

Hi Cheryl. This is the first piece I ever antiqued, and didn't know to use a resist so it went every where but washed off :-) Well mostly. I used another coat of tan, then two coats of resolene over about 28 hours and THEN felt safe enough to try again. I used Angelus med. brown acrylic antique. I practiced on here before using it on my guitar strap I was making. I'm pretty happy with the results but it's a pain to work with. Strap is looking good too, tooled the edges to have a border to shove some antique in, LOL.

[LNLeather]

Hi Cheryl. This is the first piece I ever antiqued, and didn't know to use a resist so it went every where but washed off :-) Well mostly. I used another coat of tan, then two coats of resolene over about 28 hours and THEN felt safe enough to try again. I used Angelus med. brown acrylic antique. I practiced on here before using it on my guitar strap I was making. I'm pretty happy with the results but it's a pain to work with. Strap is looking good too, tooled the edges to have a border to shove some antique in, LOL.

Well. I guess every piece we do is a learning experience... One thing (among many) to remember, and I need to remember this one too, is to practice new things on scrap first.

I meant to say, I had liked the way your horse turned out. I know you did it the way she was in the picture you took, but I did like the way you got the look of Sienna facing away...