Fiebings Antique Paste - haze? Help?

[vizslakeeper]

I have used Fiebings Antique Paste with their Pro Oil Dyes on a myriad of projects in the past - with no issue. 

This time, I went a grabbed a new tub of Sheridan brown, as it's been a while and the old one is nearly empty and pretty firm - just wanted to make it easy as I was behind schedule for this project. 

I am using ~6oz veg tan for the cover. I don't love the 'muddy' look that leaving a little extra Paste can have, and there are a lot of fine details in this carving (way different from my norm but custom for a gift...)

Point being that the only differences were the new tub of Paste, and, I did remove more residual Paste than I have in the past. 

Within about 10 minutes of applying and wiping, I get this white haze? It is extremely noticeable in person :/ pic reduces the white a bit

The haze does sort of wipe off, but not in the depths of the tooling. I took a couple of spots on a test piece and tried:

- neatsfoot oil, made no difference 

- coating w tan coat (my planned finish), and, in one area the Paste darkened up to pretty much normal, where the other darkened a bit but still also showed some of the haze. 

I thought just maybe someone else would have another idea for me to test  

Ive still got a day or two before I have to make a decision - and really appreciate any thoughts you guys might have  

(I hope the pic works ok- resized on my phone. I'll post proper photos once it's all done  )

[terrymac]

Get some wool ,, if you are using rags or paper towels, I'll will guarantee you are not getting all of the residue. Tandy sells some synthetic wool that works great.  At this time on your project, use the wool and reapply the Tankote, and work into the leather. I'm afraid the oil you applied may hinder the excess residue.  I always apply oil before the paste and I personally will use only Bees Natural Oil. I threw the underfoot oil away a long time ago.  Bees will not darken your leather.

Hope this helps,

Terry

[vizslakeeper]

Thx for the tips!

But I have not applied anything to this piece except the pro oil dye and Antique Paste. 

I ran the tests mentioned above on a separate piece of scrap  

i do have some shearling that I can use, for this piece I used some clean and fairly loop-y terry cloth (cotton). I can go add some resist to the tooled area and reapply the Paste if it is the smarter way to go? Just hopeful that is not the answer lmao 

Does that info chamge your thoughts?

[JazzBass]

Ah... After you wipe off the excess antiquing, it is going to look somewhat "hazy", but it cleans up very well when TanKote is used, as it has a solvent effect.

Check out Don Gonzales's video about antiquing- he explains this very thing at around 4 minutes.