How do you dye leather shoes?

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How do you dye leather shoes?

Post by Rebel Doughboy »

Hello again,

How would you recommend dying these shoes black? (I can do the rubber parts fine.)

http://www.driphollywood.com/adidas-jabbar-high.html

I cannot find a black pair in existence...and thus will be willing to try to dye these. I need to apply shoe stripper, but any dyes in particular for these? I need your help!
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Tandy Leather has leather dye and they can give you good pointers on how to do it... but the best way would be to take them to a shoe repair shop and have them dye the shoes for you.
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Post by Rebel Doughboy »

I thought about that. I was at Tandy Leather factory today.

TKBondservant over at Whitearmor gave me some pointers on doing it myself...since those guys like to do the chealsea boots of the TK. I should've asked today. I am going to use Angelus leather paint and am pretty excited for the result.
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Post by TK Quinn »

Trying to remember if I have seen the pictures of you having done this, but for future reference if you have, Nu-Life. That is what I used to turn my left Harley shoe from black to red, without having to strip the color at all.
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I started with some used brown boots I found on ebay and stripped and painted them to match my red armor.
I used acetone to strip the boots, let it air for a day, then painted it with red boot/shoe paint I got at a local shoe repair shop. I repaint them about once/year.

Wear rubber gloves and do the acetone work away from flames (pilot lights, etc), preferably outside if you can.

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I did the conversion on my build thread for Daft. Thanks for the input!

All I have to figure out is a clear coat that doesn't rub RIGHT off right away once contact is made...
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