All,
I have been working on the interior of my 81' SC project and decided to buy some better leather rear seats and door cards. Mine were cracked and dry, the door cards had some aftermarket tweeters screwed asymmetrically into the leather.
With a mix match of parts, I figured the leather would have to be dyed for it all to look right. So I got my box from Leatherique yesterday and used one of the throw-away rear seats as a test subject. And not just any test subject, I wanted to do a hack job on the seat to see how the Leatherique would respond and also to get a feel for the new Harbour Freight airbrush from Central Pnumatic.
All I did was use the prepping agent to Wet Sand with 400 grit, dried everything off with a blue shop towel and sprayed the leather with uncut dye. Then I hit it gently with the heat gun to set things up.
Basically, I didn't follow the directions at all.
and might I say... I am very impressed with the tentative results. these pictures were taken 5 min after spraying. The whole excercise took about 15 minutes, and thats with the clean up. On Friday, I will perform some resiliency testing to see how tough this outer layer is. I can only imagine how good it would have looked if I had taken my time to do the proper leather prepping. I was more concerned about trying out the Airbrush.
