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Title: any FOTs know about leather treatment?
Post by: yesno on March 20, 2009, 02:26:40 PM: Google has let me down on this.

I got a really great new leather bag:

http://www.mcguckin.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=21_33&products_id=293

Vintage-looking, high quality, built to last a hundred years.

But some of the inside bits are still shedding. I wore a corduroy sport jacket to work today and it's all covered with leather bits from the inside of the strap. Other bits of the interior leather seem to be smoothed out in some way.

How do I stop this?
Title: Re: any FOTs know about leather treatment?
Post by: Beth on March 20, 2009, 03:47:06 PM: My mind went to a different place when I read the thread topic. I'm relieved and disappointed.
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Post by: erika on March 20, 2009, 03:53:54 PM: Somebody's been bad and needs to be punished?
Title: Re: any FOTs know about leather treatment?
Post by: yesno on March 20, 2009, 04:08:07 PM: I did my best to remove that implication; obviously I failed.

hell bent for leather.
Title: Re: any FOTs know about leather treatment?
Post by: masterofsparks on March 20, 2009, 05:04:16 PM: You might want to ask WFMU's Chris Stubbs.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3647/3359910218_ba717beb24.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: any FOTs know about leather treatment?
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on March 20, 2009, 05:14:07 PM: we should all know better than nothing will be taken seriously on this board (unless it involves mothers...perhaps even in knoxville).

at any rate, i dracsearch'd: http://www.wikihow.com/Soften-a-Leather-Belt

...but i dont know if that will prevent further shedding. most of what i read indicated that you will need to refer to your label or the maker for care and prevention on your shedding problem. sorry, yesno.
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Post by: Stan on March 20, 2009, 05:21:43 PM: Flip over the strap or replace it.
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Post by: yesno on March 20, 2009, 05:34:51 PM: http://twitpic.com/2agjq

interior of strap is what sheds. I'd hate to replace it. I bet I can scrape it with some kind of primitive implement.

Or I can apply some baby oil to my leather strap, so it stops misbehaving.
Title: Re: any FOTs know about leather treatment?
Post by: emma on March 20, 2009, 05:35:35 PM: I'm trying to limit myself to one Spike joke a week but this board is making it difficult.
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Post by: nec13 on March 20, 2009, 06:59:05 PM: This thread should be merged with the O'Reilly thread.
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Post by: JustSheaNo on March 20, 2009, 07:27:19 PM: Baby oil might stain the leather, since it has other ingredients besides mineral oil that give it fragrance and evaporate at different rates... Leather dressing is frequently made of tallow. You want to look into oils/dressings that are specifically for treating leather.

Here's a good link http://www.davidmorgan.com/leathercare.html

Good luck.

JSN
Title: Re: any FOTs know about leather treatment?
Post by: fonpr on March 20, 2009, 07:35:58 PM: How do I stop this?
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Don't stop it.
Work it until it breaks, then put it on eBay/
period.
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Post by: Fido on March 21, 2009, 02:13:05 AM: Ask Spike!
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Post by: Sarah on March 21, 2009, 07:25:51 AM: There must be some kind of fixative you could paint/spray on the inside of the strap to hold the bits in place; if you apply lanolin/oil to it, you might end up staining your clothing. I'll ask a friend of mine who has tanned hides what she'd suggest.
Title: Re: any FOTs know about leather treatment?
Post by: yesno on March 21, 2009, 09:56:34 AM: Thanks Sarah, I knew you'd be good on this one.

Ps spike
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Post by: yesno on March 21, 2009, 09:59:00 AM: Also other interior parts of the bag are fine.
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Post by: Sarah on March 21, 2009, 11:28:24 AM: I haven't spoken to my friend yet, but it just occurred to me that a solution might be to glue fabric to the inside of the strap. Silk would be nice, and a thin fabric would certainly be easier to glue securely, but you might be better off with something more sturdy.
Title: Re: any FOTs know about leather treatment?
Post by: yesno on March 21, 2009, 12:21:17 PM: Firehose canvas.
Title: Re: any FOTs know about leather treatment?
Post by: JustSheaNo on March 21, 2009, 04:20:53 PM: But if the leather is already peeling, shedding, then wouldn't the glued on fabric still strip away, since the leather itself is what's corroded? Maybe condition the leather and then attach the fabric, so that the leather stops disintegrating, but your clothes are protected from whatever you treat the leather with...

just a thought.
Title: Re: any FOTs know about leather treatment?
Post by: Sarah on March 21, 2009, 04:29:47 PM: I was thinking that if yesno brushed off the loose bits and then coated the entire surface of the comparatively intact leather with glue, the thing might stay together. But conditioning it first might be a good idea, although it would be important to check whether the conditioner were compatible with the glue.
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Post by: Sarah on March 23, 2009, 01:59:31 PM: Finally talked to my friend. Her best suggestion? Replace the strap (she recommends moose or buffalo as particularly tough). Another was to enclose it in a tube of leather. Last was to brush off the crumbs and glue a piece of leather to the underside of the existing strap, being careful to cover its entire surface and--surprise, surprise--to use the proper glue.
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Post by: yesno on March 23, 2009, 02:20:58 PM: Thanks, Sarah.

This is a brand new bag, and the shedding has been tapering off a bit. But I think I'll do the tube thing; it can be removed later.
Title: Re: any FOTs know about leather treatment?
Post by: Sarah on March 23, 2009, 04:58:16 PM: Glad to have been slightly useful.