flasks

[Dan Hammons]

A couple more Flasks completed. I think I'll try a blue one soon but so far this is the most popular color.

[kimmie]

these are beautiful, Dan

[JustWakinUp]

awesome flasks. The color is sooooo rich. You're getting great color in the deeper parts and great color on the higher parts. What is the technique, that looks really really good

[Don]

Those look great! Nice format on both flask, great job!

[TimberWolf]

Dan, great job on the flasks! are the flasks more of a collectible "put on a shelf" item, or do your customers actually use them? Just curious....Tim

[freak]

You can see why that's a popular color, it's a very nice color. Mine sharing what it is ?

Nice work once again Dan.

[Dan Hammons]

awesome flasks. The color is sooooo rich. You're getting great color in the deeper parts and great color on the higher parts. What is the technique, that looks really really good

For the back ground I used tandy light brown dye reduced 50% on both flasks and then on the eagle I used tandy red reduced 50% over the light brown. After the dyes were dry I appliedTandy Antique Tan to the Deer and Mahogany on the eagle. I applied these with a dabber in a circlar motion untill color was even and the antique started to get tacky. Useing a clean piece of wool I started buffing lightly to get antique off the high points of textured leather. How much antique is left in depressions depends on the amount of pressure you use while buffing. you have about 15 min to do this .....anything longer than that the antique is hard to get off. This is the technique and order of application that I used on the Mule Deer and Eagle in my post "Flasks - Two more"

For the color on the Green ones I used Tandy Green deluted 50% with plain old rubbing alcohol for the back ground. I like to use the dyes deluted as it is much easier to control the color and blotching is not as likely and can be touched up . These have 2-3 coats on them and the color is gonna look pretty bright but that is were the Antique comes in. As you can see the shade of green is a little diff. from one to the other and the reason is that on the Duck I ued Tandy Tan Antique and for the Whitetail I used Saddletan. The Antique over the unprotected dye is were the Rich color is coming from. There are alot of factors that could change the shade starting with the leather as we all know ,then the amount of color dye and then the color of antique. The background tools I am useing are Crafttool E294 and E294-04. Practice on scrap 1st unless you like the rush you get from not knowing how your project will turn out. Oh one more thing!! I used Super Shene to block inside the oval and figures.I still try to keep the Antique out of the oval but better safe than sorry !!For a final coat I have been useing two light coats of Neat Lac. Hope this helps .......This has been all trial and error with me but I like the way this looks and Good Luck if you try it Dan