Boot/ Shoe Care (Products, Methods, and Suggestions)
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Standard, supermarket brand (Kiwi), neutral colour wax polish on all my shoes and boots. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Mashed up and pressed anal glands from minks, courtesy of the fur trade, I believe
Sweet, I have a box full of mashed up mink anal glands in my closet above all of my IH!
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Montana Pitch Blend http://www.mtpitchblend.com/
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"This Is The Way We Wash Our Suede" another great video from my neighborhood Shoe Store.
Leffot Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/leffot1/videos
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I got my first tub of Obernauf's Heavy Duty LP in the post yesterday and applied it to my Red Wing work oxfords by hand. Is there a general rule of thumb for how much I should apply per coat? I notice that the oil version used above looks like a much greater amount of coverage. I did, however, try to slap on the LP and give my shoes a good coating!
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I don't think there is a general rule, I agree in the pics it does look like quite a lot was applied but I don't think I over did it as after one day it had all soaked in with virtually nothing to be wiped off. To do those four pairs I used about half the bottle of oil so around 1/16 a bottle per boot.
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Hey D97X7,
Is the leather on one of those iron rangers "rough out"? If so, from what I can tell, it darkens the leather substantially by using the LP. Do you have any problems with that? How long ago did you treat those boots?
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Yes they are roughout and yes they did darken although not quite as much as it appears in the pic now they have dried out fully, no I don't mind it at all.
I did only intend to try it behind the eyelets at first to see what would happen, but I got more than I expected in the eye holes which dribbled down the outside so I felt I had no choice but to do the whole boot.
I did this last week btw. -
^nice video … maybe this is just a romantic notion, but I wish I had a job doing something like that ...
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I came across this a while ago.
Feels crazy to see all this stuff just about shoe laces and lacing technics, but I must confess that since I applied Ian's advices, my laces hold much better and they do not slip anymore.
Now for the adventurous ones, you also have artistic ways of lacing
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Useful, but I won't be signing up for a feed from:
"Shoelace News Stories"
Not sure I could stand the excitement…..
Yep! I won't either… but eh what would the world be without geeks?
