Just thought I'd give a Quick run through of how to change the colour of your watch band that came with the watch.
I love the watch so far, but didn't think the Stone went so well with a silver watchface. This video shows you how to prepare the leather and make it ready to be stained.
Firstly I used a solvant or stripper to help remove the gloss on the band which will stop the dye from staying there. Some people used Sandpaper.
I used three layers of leather dye, with each layer making it be darker. Each layer I waited about 15 minutes, and it helps if you do it in sunlight to have a good idea of what the colour is - it's initially darker and then dries to be lighter.
Misc tips:
The back being fragile plastic with people worrying about putting in big bands or just doing anything with them, I was worried about taking it out using a flathead screwdriver to push the stripe bar down to take it apart.
I found that if you push from the top, you have less chance of pushing up and putting too much pressure to that area. Tried to take a photo to make it more obvious at the end of the video.
Here's some other photos from it:
http://i.imgur.com/KW5KxiH.jpg - During dyeing
http://imgur.com/lHRF3gL.jpg - Three layers to make a dark brown.
http://imgur.com/fdQhgZ8.jpg - what it looks like on the hand.
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