I thought I was buying white goat skin, but there is no pigment at all.
These are also somewhat translucent. These skins also don’t look 1 mm thick.
Do you think they are too thin? They seem quite tough and stiff.
Any suggestions on ink, dye or stain to change these skins to white? I found white acrylic leather paint, but not much for white stain or dye. Reviews say acrylic paint peels off from the leather..
I plan to use two of these to reskin both sides of a used Shamisen that I ordered from Japan.
Has anyone tried products to dye leather before stretching?
I Ordered the Clyde’s Leather Recoloring Balm in White and Maroon color. I would like to try those colors on a couple of the goatskins that I now have.
Has anyone tried using two different colors for the skins on one shamisen? How does it look?
Ah, I run into similar issue. The first batch I have ordered was transparent.
The closest one to original skin I found was a vellum goat skin parchment so far:
Thanks much Alexey for the tip. Would the 12x16 inch individual sheets be large enough to stretch for reskinning or is it better to buy a whole skin? It looks like the Shipping to my address in the U.S. is $34 regardless of how much is purchased. Would one full skin be sufficient to reskin two Shamisens?
It doesn’t look like the paint like “recoloring Balm” will peal, but it will probably take one full small jar to just dye one skin. I am thinking maybe to conserve the amount of balm used would be to wait until I put the skin on the skin stretcher and just dye enough of the leather to cover the Dou and not waste the limited balm…
Another alternative may be to just dilute some white acrylic paint and either sponge on the paint or soak the leather for 30 seconds in a pan of paint and then hang it to dry…
What are you thoughts on dying goat leather White?
Question 2- Which side of the leather should I be using for the re-skin- the side where the hair was removed or the inner side? does it make any difference which side I choose? I dyed the inner side. The outer side still has some pieces of hair attached.
