by oakfan33 » December 28th, 2008, 11:39 pm
I bought the dye at a local shoe repair shop here in town. I didn't take any laces out, just untied the square knots or whatever kind of knots they're called. The applicator really gets into the nooks and crannies very well. I lifted up the laces and got the dye under them. The dye is very easy to apply and goes on very evenly. I even went around all the edges first and made sure all the details were done first and went back and did the big areas after. Even after going back to those areas, it didn't look uneven. The glove just soaked up the dye real well. The brush ( brush made specially for dye, bought at a craft store) made it real nice around the patches and under some difficult to reach areas. I put a thick piece of paper, like the cover of a phone book under the edge of the Rawlings patch and used the brush to apply the dye so the dye wouldn't bleed onto the patch, worked real well. The paper prevented the dye from getting on the patch. The bottle says to wait 24 hours to cure. I cleaned the glove with a degreaser before I started. It was a water based kind that is diluted with water and the camel color dried the same color, didn't darken it. I kind of took note of that before I started dying it.