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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: gwrightson on May 20, 2009, 07:44:39 am

Title: a little practice
Post by: gwrightson on May 20, 2009, 07:44:39 am

heres a couple of picsof a leather suite  that Mike halliday and myself worked on yesterday evening, its Mikes suite so was good to practice using more than one colour as it did have a slight two tone mottled effect,  a little difficult to see by these pics, so a black base coat was put on first and then the brown to a pretty good effect, " well we thought so "

Geoff

***PICTURES DELETED SEE MY  POST BELOW****

Mike

Title: Re: a little practice
Post by: robert meldrum on May 20, 2009, 08:05:27 am

Are you sure it was black followed by brown, rather the other way round ?

The effect looks fine and I've a similar one coming along soon so interested in the different ways of achieving two tone finishes, apart from antique it's something I've no experience of so far.

Title: Re: a little practice
Post by: gwrightson on May 20, 2009, 08:45:56 am

black followed by brown,

the base was not completly covered in black , a random application to areas and worked in , dried then brown.
geoff

Title: Re: a little practice
Post by: Mike Halliday on May 20, 2009, 11:15:21 am

geoffs Pics are crap ;) and his explanation of the use of the black is not clear

when  preparing the leather more of the top colour was removed, leaving a very light tan undercoat colour. on the first cushion we had difficulty  getting the top coat to adequately cover this light under coat, (it required a lot of applications of colour) so on the second cushion we used a primary base coat of black, the light colour still showed through but not as prominent

we then applied the brown top colour

Title: Re: a little practice
Post by: Jim_77 on May 20, 2009, 04:21:30 pm

Geoff's quite small isn't he.  Nice wet nose though :D


(very nice job btw!!)