My antique rubs away

[diibbles134]

So quick question newer to doing antique on my work, I use angelus acrylic finish as my resist works great then I put my antique on and then after it's dried a few hours I put a top coat of the finish on top, but I've noticed on a couple belts and wallets that the antique is coming out of the groves . Is this common or am I not putting enough sealer ?

[NVLeatherWorx]

One thing I didn't notice you mention was whether not you have removed all of the excess antique before allowing it dry in preparation for the final protection sealer.  Most of the time when the antique starts to come out of the design elements it is because there is too much of it in one place and it doesn't like to flex very much.  This also happens if you have left some residual antique on some of the resisted areas; that is why you resisted in the first place so as to not allow color penetration in certain areas and if you have some on  an area that resisted it has no pores to try and populate.  I have never used the Angelus product line as I have seen no need to change from the "Old Faithful" products from Fiebing's; they have been working for over 100 years and I have been working with them for over 40 and never had a negative result or issue.

[diibbles134]

Sorry yes I wipe the excess off but I do leave a decent amount in the tooling divots, which is what seems to come off , maybe I'm leaving too much in it

I started using their stuff for the paints and really ended up liking the dye and finish

[nrk]

On 6/17/2017 at 4:34 PM, diibbles134 said:

Sorry yes I wipe the excess off but I do leave a decent amount in the tooling divots, which is what seems to come off , maybe I'm leaving too much in it

I started using their stuff for the paints and really ended up liking the dye and finish

any pics?

[diibbles134]

I don't right this minute, it happened on a wallet that I gave to my fiancé father, that antique in the floral carving has pretty much vanished