How To Make It Look Something Like This

[Feraud]

Ah, got it. Thanks for the explanation!

[electrathon]

When you seal the entire piece with your finish coat, you're stopping the antique from coloring the leather. An antique is designed to sit inside the tooling and not actually color the leather. After you antique, you finish it again to seal the antique into the tooling, otherwise you risk it wiping out with use. You can use many different finishes for a resist. The two I use are either neatlac (clearlac now) or Fiebing's Resolene. I've also been hearing a lot of good things lately about RTC Sheridan Resist, so I've been thinking about giving it a try as well.

So:

1.) dye

2.) seal with finish to "resist"

3.) antique

4.) seal again to protect the antique

Very good explanation

[ReneeCanady]

Thank you so much everyone! I guess I was under the same impression as Feraud. I couldn't get it thru my head that if I actually sealed it how the antique would get in there

[Cyberthrasher]

Thank you so much everyone! I guess I was under the same impression as Feraud. I couldn't get it thru my head that if I actually sealed it how the antique would get in there

Be sure to show us what you come up with

[mototech7]

i just got some rtc yesterday! i did a test run and it seems so much easier to use than resolene, what i have been using lately!