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I just tread my pre distressed cowhide with antik-finish, a leatherworking substance. After aplying it i polished it, did some work with sandpaper on it and finally rubbed some sand in it. The work with it isn't done yet, but the first pistures can be watched here:

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Did anyone of you guys did something like this before?

What exactly does Antik-Finish do?

So, I hope that I will translate that right:

Antik finish darkens the structure and scares on the leather surface. It is a allmost black paste which is to be applyed by rubbing it into the leather with a cottonscrap or simmilar.
After rubbing it in, allow the AF to dry for about 5 minutes. Than, polishing it with a clean scrap or with a shoebrush (I do both normaly). This gives a antik look on normal, uncolloured leathers.

Allow about 1 or two 2 hours to dry

The jacket looks now allmost like a normal hide, and now comes the clue:

I carefully removed the rubbed-in-and-polished antikfinish with sandpaper on the arreas which I wanted to have distressed and highlighted. After that I throw some sand on it rubbed the jacket a little with my flat hands. On some parts a bit more, on others a bit less.

Remove the sand compleatly and give the jacket a good even polish with the shoebrush.

(I left the jacket about a day untouched now)

Now, throw a good hand of compleatly dryed out fine dirt on it and polish the jacket even with flat hands.

After this the jacket have the collour of the dirt and you might think that you have ruined your jacket and you will start hat me

Remove dirt as good as possible and do a little polish on it.

The surface of the jacket should be quit dry now and the jacket looks allready quit good.

And NOW do the final work with ruff sandpaper. Give it all the scratches as you want to but CAREFULLY. Bring your arms in a position that the sleves shows some folds. rub 'em with sandpaper as you like to highlight this folds.

When your're finished with sandpapering it, give it another good polish, especcialy the highlightet areas of the sleves.

If the jacket doesn't look like this, you have the right to shoot me:




just kidding guys

No, beeing seriously, I really love my jacket how it turned out,

BUT: I don't know yet how it will look like when you

1. give it a coat of pecards
2. Walk in rain with it

I will poast pictures as soon as possible, I guess monday or so.

I hope some of you guys will like this.

Happy distressing,

Dan

And this is how my jacket look now:

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WOW! My authentic lamb is so soft and delicate feeling, I'm not sure it would withstand that sort of abuse.... But I sure wish I could make it look like that. Outstanding job!

Nice job, but th pics are a little to dark, to see the detail though.

I guess you would have to find a different way to work with antique finish on autentic lambskin. Me and pagey might do a little work on his in future. I'll let you guys know how (and if) it will work later.

I'm going to make a few more fotos in the sunlight when the rain stops.

Does the anique finish have a brand name? What I've found searching for antique leather finish comes up with dyes. Is it more of a "shoe pollish" than a dye?

It is more like a shoepolish than a dye, that's right, but it is normaly used after working with dyes.
This is what I just found about antique finish, now you get a good english description :

ANTIQUE FINISH

Imparts a soft, lustrous patina that emphasizes tooling, carving and embossing with a subtle, two-toned effect. Antique Finish is not entirely waterproof and should be protected with an additional wax or resin coating such as RESOLENE, Leather Sheen or Leather Balm with Atom Wax. Antique Finish can be thinned with Fiebing’s Tan Kote.

Manufactured in Black, Dark Brown, Medium Brown, Light Brown, Mahogany, Light Mahogany, Dark Mahogany, Navy Blue, Oxblood, Cordovan, British Tan, Tan and Neutral. Only stock Black, Dk Brown, Med Brown, Lt Brown, Chocolate, British Tan, Cordovan, Tan

BTW I used antique finish "dark brown"


Do this help you?

Yes pretty much. Where did you buy it? Internet or a store near you?
Is Fiebing the company who makes it?

Darn I wanted Oxblood.

I bought it in a leather shop. Yes, this is the company who made it.

Found an online source for Fiebing's Antique Finish in the US here.

Also some tips on its use here.

- A.I.

Thanks!