Tooling/Working with leather things

[toot]

If a piece of leather is already dyed, can I cut, stamp, bevel, and re-dye it??

What would that look like appearance wise??

As in buying a plain jane quiver, and dressing it up..

Thanks, toot

[Pat B]

It depends on the type of leather and the finish on it. If the quiver is tooling leather(usually oak tanned or latigo)and doesn't have a hard finish it can be tooled and re-dyed. You are better off starting from scratch but the other way is possible.   Pat

[portugeejn]

What Pat said is true.

[mike g]

A good Oiled tanned leather that is great for making Quivers is not good for tooling...
   Vegitable tanned leather is good for tooling.

[KyleAllen]

in my expererience, which is fairly limited, you will lose quite a bit of the depth of your tooling when you re-dye. I did a pretty elaborate arm guard with a skull on it. Maybe i used too much dye, but when i dyed it, it "floated" up most of the depressed areas. I had to go back and retool the whole thing.