[Magnum Wheel Man]

curious if you want to talk finishing...

I've been doing some expirementing there... often I find the dyes are too dark, or too intense... I did up some tooled key fobs for a bunch of family members, for Christmas, with a bunch of my scraps... & took some of the regular Feibing dye, & diluted it down with rubbing alcohol... I found that I could thin some of the dyes down quite a bit & still get plenty of color...

also seems the alcohol doesn't do anything to hurt the tooling, & if anything, the faster drying might have helped the tooling stand out more...

the dyes I thinned out to expirement with were light brown, light blue, & red... I actually with the flesh color of vegi tanned leather, got a nice "dusty rose" color with the highly thinned red dye, & the floral patterns I tooled on those stands out quite well...

don't know if I'd go as far as to recommend alcohol for forming the leather, but if the gun was adiquately protected, it might do a fine job of molding, while leaving to tooling proud ???

thoughts ???