Fiebing's Pro Dye 4 FLOZ

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Fiebing’s Pro Dye is the best consumer leather dye. It works excellent on natural vegetable tan leather, but it can also be used to re-dye leather products (after deglazing of course). I used this to change the color of some old leather hiking boots. Due to the oils, the leather doesn’t feel dry after use, compared to other leather dye. There’s a mandatory shipping fee within Japan due to the flammable chemicals used.

The Pro Dye is the way to go for me from now on whenever I have to paint around carved and resisted designs. I've been experimenting with different dyes and the Pro Dye is much easier to blend in when you begin to dye the rest of your project. It drove me crazy trying to use the Fiebings Leather Dye to paint around carved sections because it dries way too fast and you can distinctly see a ring around your carved area where you transition over to dying the rest of the project. However, the alcohol based Leather Dye is great if you are dying your entire project one colour; this rapid drying allows you to apply your finish coat pretty much immediately and will give you very good results that way. Using the oil based Pro Dye, all I need to do is allow for greater drying time, but at least I won't be ruining carved projects anymore. I sure wish someone had explained that to me before and that is why I'm taking time to make this distinction in this review. One colour, sure, use Leather Dye no problem. Blending in different areas, way better to use the Pro Dye.

I originally ordered a jar in 'Chocolate' to touch up some worn spots on our leather couches (worked great!). I still had almost the entire bottle left so I went on to dye a wide leather belt for a River Song cosplay I am working on (also great!). I was having so much fun (there is something oddly satisfying in watching the dye seep into the leather and dry so quickly) that I pulled out some old leather boots I had picked up from the thrift store that were really sad and worn looking and were in desperate need of some lovin'. I didn't have any leather deglazer but I did have some 100% acetone in my nail polish drawer that took the shiny coating off the boots really well (and its super cheap). After the acetone dried (and I had recovered from the brain cells I lost from doing this project in the windowless bathroom...seriously do this outside) I went over the boots a few times with the dye on wool daubers. After the dye dried, I gave the boots a few LIGHT coats of resolene (I diluted the resolene with water to about a 50:50 ratio because I didn't want the boots SUPER shiny) that I applied with a damp sponge, per some advice from a few people on some leatherworking forums online. I am SO happy with how they came out!! They are beautiful and honestly look better than brand new. Such an easy fix for cheap boots you find at yard sales and second hand stores! I've been digging around in our closet looking for more things to dye because its truly such an easy fix for shoes or purses (my next project)! NOTE :: This dye is DARK. If you apply resolene on top, it gets EVEN DARKER. The belt I dyed (picture attached) came out almost black looking after I applied the resolene (I didn't dilute it). This wasn't a huge deal to me, but if you are wavering between two colors, definitely start with the lighter one...you can go back over it with a darker one if need be but you can't go back very easily and take off dye that is too dark. You know those instructions that say 'its best to test on an inconspicuous area or scrap first' ? I'm all for ignoring directions but in this case that is a really good idea :)

This dye was very effective, and very very dark brown, almost black. It soaked into the veg tanned leather deeply, dried, and the leather was still nice and flexible, with no color rub off. However, I wanted some of the color to rub off for a worn look, and even after sanding the sides of my belt, they still burnished dark brown. So if you’re hoping the color will rub off a little, it will not. I used the method of spraying the dye on my belt with a fine mist sprayer and it worked pretty well for even coverage. Maybe the color would have been a little lighter if I had used a wool dauber. My gloves were goat leather and they definitely dyed black when I wanted brown. They just absorbed too much dye, at least with the spray method. But the pro dye works phenomenal other than that!