08-13-2019, 11:15 PM
Lemme get the procedure out and I'll describe it in more detail later.
It involves using purchased milk paint with lime, this stuff (I was using old Bioshield brand, but this looks identical):
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Fashioned-Mil...4954&psc=1
First the leather is saturated with a very weak size made from rabbit skin glue and a small amount of alum 1/4 tsp and a small amount of calcium carbonate 1tsp, most of which precipitated out -- just wanted to keep solution basic as opposed to acidic. Leather is saturated with it with brush or sponge (foam brush is what I'm using). Then a very weak almost transparent solution of milkpaint made with the same weak size instead of water with a small amount of titanium dioxide added is applied to the wet leather with a foam brush, in very wet parallel overlapping strokes. This shpukd create an even coat with few striations. Then let it dry. Apply another coat, with strokes at right angle to last, same way. let dry. polish lightly with cloth, rub in a mixture of four parts purified linseed oil and 1 of stand oil and 1 part natural beeswax meted together and stirred and cooled, and a bit of titanium dioxide mxed together. and made into a paste. rub it into the surface of the now lightened leathef and let dry.
It involves using purchased milk paint with lime, this stuff (I was using old Bioshield brand, but this looks identical):
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Fashioned-Mil...4954&psc=1
First the leather is saturated with a very weak size made from rabbit skin glue and a small amount of alum 1/4 tsp and a small amount of calcium carbonate 1tsp, most of which precipitated out -- just wanted to keep solution basic as opposed to acidic. Leather is saturated with it with brush or sponge (foam brush is what I'm using). Then a very weak almost transparent solution of milkpaint made with the same weak size instead of water with a small amount of titanium dioxide added is applied to the wet leather with a foam brush, in very wet parallel overlapping strokes. This shpukd create an even coat with few striations. Then let it dry. Apply another coat, with strokes at right angle to last, same way. let dry. polish lightly with cloth, rub in a mixture of four parts purified linseed oil and 1 of stand oil and 1 part natural beeswax meted together and stirred and cooled, and a bit of titanium dioxide mxed together. and made into a paste. rub it into the surface of the now lightened leathef and let dry.
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