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I've made my 2nd sheath. It turned out not perfect but Ok for the job with brown antique stain. I'll post some pics tomorrow I hope (because of semi-tropical rains here daylight non-existent). I tried to finish some scrap leather with same stain dipping to the beeswax and carnauba wax plus a tiny bit of canola oil mix. I have no neatsfoot oil or minsk oil. The color has gone too dark but the finish was ok I guess. I didn't finish the sheath with wax dipping method, I only polished with some beeswax, it shined real nice but the leather is not protected from water I suspect.
Here are my questions:
1- To minimize the darkening after wax treatment do I have to buy some proper oil or is it normal?
2- Are there anyone boils the leather in the water to stabilize the molding and stamping?
3- When dipping the leather into the molten wax do you let the wax to go into the sheath? If it goes inside how do you remove the hard wax from there?
4- Do you dye/stain also the backside of the leather?
best regards...
Here are my questions:
1- To minimize the darkening after wax treatment do I have to buy some proper oil or is it normal?
2- Are there anyone boils the leather in the water to stabilize the molding and stamping?
3- When dipping the leather into the molten wax do you let the wax to go into the sheath? If it goes inside how do you remove the hard wax from there?
4- Do you dye/stain also the backside of the leather?
best regards...
