Feibings die all look the same colour

[bikermutt07]

24 minutes ago, garypl said:

Mutt, you would be amazed how much less dye you use when you airbrush it.  Granted, the dye doesn’t penetrate as deep as when you dip it or apply heavily with a sponge or dauber, but I find it perfectly acceptable for most of m6 projects.  Airbrushing dye is very forgiving - hard to mess anything up!

Gary

Shoot, I'm sold. I got a Graco 390. You think that would work?

[battlemunky]

1 hour ago, Mattsbagger said:

Way Less dye! 

Yes, way less dye and pretty forgiving, yes. I think, with the coupns, I have all of $40 for my rig. It is the Harbor Freight cheapo jobber but so far, it is wholely and fully acceptable for leather working.

[Brooks125]

Chuck at Weaver gives a great explanation.  "leather dyes" are a powder based colorant, "pro dyes" are an oil based colorant.  He even explains the similarity in color results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zokhe6oxhjc

[garypl]

On 2/11/2018 at 6:02 PM, battlemunky said:

Yes, way less dye and pretty forgiving, yes. I think, with the coupns, I have all of $40 for my rig. It is the Harbor Freight cheapo jobber but so far, it is wholely and fully acceptable for leather working.

I also use the cheap Harbor Freight airbrushes - I like the one that uses the plastic bottles - easy to switch bottles and airbrush stays clean.  Sprays dyes and Resolene and costs less than $10.   Small oil-less compressor was about $80.  

[garypl]

56 minutes ago, bikermutt07 said:

Shoot, I'm sold. I got a Graco 390. You think that would work?

That’s a powerful airless sprayer - I think it would be difficult to control the output when spraying small amounts of dye - overkill and looks like it would not be able to spray unless you have a large container of dye.

[bikermutt07]

9 minutes ago, garypl said:

That’s a powerful airless sprayer - I think it would be difficult to control the output when spraying small amounts of dye - overkill and looks like it would not be able to spray unless you have a large container of dye.

Yeah, I was joking about that. 

It takes about a 1/3 of a gallon just to fill the lines.

Edited February 12, 2018 by bikermutt07

[garypl]

6 minutes ago, bikermutt07 said:

Yeah, I was joking about that. 

It takes about a 1/3 of a gallon just to fill the lines.

LOL You got me there Mutt!

[bikermutt07]

Just now, garypl said:

LOL You got me there Mutt!

Man, I figured anybody that new about those things would get a good laugh out of it. It's left over from my remodeling company. I still use it every now and then.

[philmb]

Thanks for all the reply's =)

Just did a quick test with mixing 50/50 with alcohol, seems to make the colour a lot better - a lot less Red.

It seems like the oil dyes maybe better to use.

 

 

[bikermutt07]

51 minutes ago, philmb said:

Thanks for all the reply's =)

Just did a quick test with mixing 50/50 with alcohol, seems to make the colour a lot better - a lot less Red.

It seems like the oil dyes maybe better to use.

 

 

Just for reference....

Pro Dye = Pro Oil Dye

They are one and the same. Fiebings is dropping the pro oil moniker for confusion's sake. It is the same stuff. A few years ago I emailed them about what was what. And that was their reply.