mikesc Posted September 19, 2017 Report Posted September 19, 2017 "kitty stuff" ( presuming you mean fresh kitty litter ) , if it is the fuller's earth type doesn't smell at all..So..no smell to transfer..to anything.. Someone must have been selling you recycled "used kitty litter" ;-) Quote "Don't you know that women are the only works of Art" .. ( Don Henley and "some French painter in a field" )
Members ByNelson Posted September 19, 2017 Members Report Posted September 19, 2017 2 hours ago, mikesc said: "kitty stuff" ( presuming you mean fresh kitty litter ) , if it is the fuller's earth type doesn't smell at all..So..no smell to transfer..to anything.. Someone must have been selling you recycled "used kitty litter" ;-) No but here in Denmark it has a really disgusting smell... I think the stuff is sprinkled with some kind of awful perfume Just praise yourself lucky you won't experience that. Quote
Members TonyRV2 Posted September 22, 2017 Members Report Posted September 22, 2017 Before you do anything else, or put any more products on this, try setting it out in the sunshine for a few days. This may lighten it up very nicely for you, I know that this works with Resolene. Quote Tony VRifle River Leather Ogemaw Knifeworks There are two individuals inside every artisan...the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
mikesc Posted September 22, 2017 Report Posted September 22, 2017 (edited) Sunshine will polymerise ( changes the chemical composition ) the oil, that will make even darker, and semi-fix it into the leather, making it much harder to get it out. Putting oil in the sun was the way to make "sun dried" oil ( from linseed or olive oil ) or "stand oil" ( linseed oil treated for use by artists ) or was also used as a method to "thicken oil". Resolene is not olive oil! Edited September 22, 2017 by mikesc Quote "Don't you know that women are the only works of Art" .. ( Don Henley and "some French painter in a field" )
Members Squilchuck Posted October 27, 2017 Members Report Posted October 27, 2017 Dragonfly, did you ever fix this piece - draw the oil out? I thought I had earlier seen a photo of the restored piece, but can't find anything. -John Quote
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