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Learn About Dye Buffing Leather Work

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    Part of the video series: Basic Leather Working

    Summary: An important element to leather working is learning about buffing and buffers and how they work. Learn how to practice and achieve the right look with this small sample in this free video series.

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    By Amanda Claire
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    Amanda Claire is a leather artist currently living in Austin, Texas, where she specializes on custom pieces that blend traditional technique with modern designs. She designs and...read more

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    "Okay, so you can see this dye's kind of dried out a little bit here. I've done both these, the centers of these letters, kind of carefully with a brush, and we also just done the surface of this one. When it dries, the next thing you can do is just take another, kind of one of those cloths, not, not, it's not really a cloth, it's kind of like a fake kind of little fuzzy sheep skin, and then just kind of buff it out. What this will do is it kind of will make the surface a little more even, it'll give it a little bit of a shine and it just kind of makes it a little bit prettier. You can see now, now there's kind of a gloss to that, that it kind of didn't have before. I can do the same thing with these letters. See, these letters aren't really glossy right now but I can really kind of buff this out, now that this is sort of dry and you can kind of see it starts to shine and kind of starts looking a little bit prettier, especially now the contrast between the leather that's been died and the leather that hasn't. You see now it's kind of shiny and it's kind of starts to look pretty."

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