Shoe Antiquing - Page 12

Me too - this is a great thread and a great site - my shoes are going to start looking really great now as I've always wanted to learn how to antique shoes.

I knew a guy like us in Paris who is now doing antiquing as a pay job...
He uesd to come on a similar forum and started doing it for himself...The result was so great that some people started paying him to do it on their shoes..
You're doing a great job guy...

Marvellous, absolutely marvellous. The shoe looks good enough to eat!!! Do you have pre-treatment pictures?

My attempt with an unloved pair of AE Drydens:

Before:
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After:


In reality, the burgundy is darker and less red. The flash lightened the picture somewhat.

nice! what did you use as the dye?

Thank you. Hopefully they don't turn the sidewalk red during the next rain.

For the first shoe I used a mix of Fiebings medium brown and red dyes.

For the next shoe I applied the red first then the medium brown afterwards to darken it up. Better result that way I think. The first shoe came out a bit too dark along the outer side of the upper.

sounds good, I was thinking of using that Fiebings medium brown as well. you liked the color? how many coats did you use?

What are you all doing to your shoes?!

I only used the medium brown to darken the red dye. I couldn't really tell you how it looks on its own, unfortunately.

I used about 10 coats total.

you put the medium brown on straight up, right? didn't cut it with a dye reducer or anything? I just placed my order for some med. brown Fiebings, looking forward to changing the color up

It is the pauper's version of the One Shoe Wardrobe. I'm going to dye all my unloved AE shoes, in their various forms of baby poo brown, burgundy.

I applied the dyes straight up. No reducer. I did rub a couple of spots on the shoes with a deglazer because they were getting too dark (almost black).

It was actually a pretty half-assed job on my part. I didn't even bother taping the soles or testing the dye on the leather first. I'm lucky it came out OK.

Absolutely beautiful work. Well done.

I was thinking the same perhaps.

Anyone with experience with antiquing / dyeing black cherry leather? I'm looking to turn my Gentleman Travelers (here) to medium/dark brown, and I'm wondering whether deglazer / acetone will be enough to take the color off initially before dyeing.