Finished first holster!! Vinegaroon didn't work as expected...

[Grunt]

Thanks for the detailed process. One of the best I've seen to date on the subject. I do have one question though. Why do you oil before you mold? Oiling seems to set the leather and makes it difficult to obsorb water for rubbing out marks, etc. I'd think it would do the same for molding.

Thanks

I put a light coat on to help finish setting the color and to make sure I have the depth of color I want. I haven't had any problems so far, although I don't do any really fine molding or boning. Usually the oil soaks in pretty quickly back to dry. I'm sure waiting until all molding and/or boning is complete to apply any oil at all would work just fine. I will try that on my next black sheath and see if I get different results. Thanks.

Once I am finished with a project I will apply 2 or 3 light coats of oil and go from there to my final finish.

Regards,

Nick

[Grunt]

Here are a couple of pics of my latest sheaths. These were dyed with vinegaroon the edged were dyed with leather dye in order to get a consistant color.

[Go2Tex]

OK, I see. Kinda what I figured. Nice edges.