Top coat question: Fiebing's Leather Balm

[waywar]

They still make it.  I just ordered a 32oz bottle and received it Thursday from Tandy. 

[waywar]

[TomG]

7 hours ago, waywar said:

I think they are referring to the Black LB/AW.  Fiebings has stopped making all flavors except Neutral.
I spoke with one of their chemists a year or so ago. He advised me that you can take some of the EcoFlo leather dyes and mix then with the neutral LB/AW and have an equivalent for the discontinued products. He didn't know the ratios and advised me to just do small samples and start with maybe 5% dye to 95% LB.
What I did was make brown and black.  I dyed some sample pieces and used my test batches to see the results.
To be honest, I actually found little difference between the Neutral and the "best" brown batch and on the black, I saw virtually no difference whatsoever.
So now, I just use the neutral for everything.

BTW, I make a ton of dog collars, belts, key fobs and such. I use the LB/AW for almost everything and love it. I put it on after the dye and buff it well, then, if I have any stampings/engravings, I apply my antiquing on top, let it sit until I see it just start to lose it's "gloss" and then wipe it off as if I was block dying a piece.

After it dries overnight, I apply 50/50 resolene, again, using a block dye technique applied quickly. This takes off any excess antiquing with ripping the stuff out of the impressions.
 

[waywar]

Thanks for clarifying...I honestly have never seen it in any other color than neutral.  The Amish guy I started with never had anything but the neutral and I never thought to ask.  lol