make fake leather phone in 30 seconds

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Channel: Robb's Homemade Life · 2017 · Howto & Style

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I saw a guy on one of the first ships I sailed on back in the seventies make a small wood statue look like leather using this technique.
 I had a lot of time on my hands and used it to cover a book to make it look like it was covered in leather.
 I recently came across the book and decided to use the technique to add a leather texture to a small fliphone. 
Since the phone gets a lot of laughs I might as well take advantage.
 To do the same thing and give an object the leather look simply tear off as small and irregular piece of masking tape as you can and apply to your object. When you are satisfied rub in a couple of coats of shoe polish and cover with the clear polyurethane coating of your choice. I used two coats of gloss. A matte finish will look better than the high gloss I used.
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 Robb Moffett
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