Sunburst!!!!! Who is doing it right. I need some advice

[Grumpymann]

I airbrush as well I picked up 4 of them (not all at the same time) 1 for black another for green, blue and puprle another for red and pink and the last for finish. The one for finish is adjusted for that and that alone.  I picked them up at harbor freight for a 20 spot. 

[sbrownn]

13 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

so do you spray your finishes also? My problem with super sheen is that it picks up alot of dye when i brush it on and leaves streaks would spraying it on be better? On this piece it removed and streaked the bison brown then sealed up the whole mess lol. I mixed a bit of sheen with some of the dye and it sprayed well and helped cover some of the problem but puddled easily.

Also wondering would the leather being damp help the dye bind better before drying i still feel alot of the dye dries before it soaks into the leather.

 

I've gotten so I only work in pre colored bridle leather anymore and I don't bother to finish it because it doesn't need it.  There are lots of colors, more uniformly dyed than  I could ever do, it holds stamps well, can be dyed over and doesn't cost any more that good quality veg tan.

I like the Chahin leather in the desert colors sold by American Leather Direct.  You can order it in various colors and thicknesses and one of the nice things about it is that after it has been split down they paste the back side very nicely so you don't have to do it yourself.

[sbrownn]

13 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

so do you spray your finishes also? My problem with super sheen is that it picks up alot of dye when i brush it on and leaves streaks would spraying it on be better? On this piece it removed and streaked the bison brown then sealed up the whole mess lol. I mixed a bit of sheen with some of the dye and it sprayed well and helped cover some of the problem but puddled easily.

Also wondering would the leather being damp help the dye bind better before drying i still feel alot of the dye dries before it soaks into the leather.

 

As long as you are set up to spray dye you should probably also spray the finishes.  I haven't run into the problems you are encountering but I would guess that if you spray dyed damp leather it would feather out following the moisture in directions you don't want it to.  If I were doing what you are thinking of I would dye dry, let the dye dry and then spray the finish.  The only time I use any finish is after I have laser embossed something and then it is to keep the embossment from smearing.

[stsears]

I have been spraying my finishes on my holster for the 10 + years. Eric Adams with Adams Leather Works showed me what he does years ago and if you ever saw Eric's work you would know that I wanted my holsters to look like his.Spray it is !!! Dye and Sealant