How To Dye Using Multiple Colours

[Sven WillIBeFamous]

This has probably been asked before somewhere but I couldn't find anything suitable in my searches.

I'm going to be making some guitar straps soon as I have an idea to have the majority of the strap black, and then have the tooled sections left with a natural, or maybe light tan, finish. I've done one other piece before using 2 different dyes and I found that when I applied a coat of resolene I had some transfer of the black on the tanned sections.

Is the best option to carefully apply resolene or carnauba to the tooled sections before I apply the black?

Or is there another technique which will serve me better?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[mlapaglia]

An Air Brush would let you control where the Black was applied. 2 Coats of resolene on the natural/tan area would stop the black from getting on that area., When you dye the black have some Isopropel alcohol available. I use that to whip the resisted area if any black gets caught on the resolene. I use B-D Alcohol Wipes. Nice pads and small enough to clean up tiny areas. Just be sure to keep changing the pad so you do not transfer any of the black you just removed.

Edited October 1, 2015 by mlapaglia