Leather Preservative Experiment
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wow, look at the way the water beads up on some.
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A bit of warning: Olive oil rots over time, and smells really bad. I thought it would be a good idea to oil my big butcher block with olive oil, because, you know, its a cutting board, so what better to oil it with than olive oil, right? Wrong! After about a year, I noticed a foul odor that actually permeated the food and tasted horrible. I can't imagine the effect would be less on a nice piece of leather. Since that incident, I got a new butcher block, and oil it with mineral oil, which won't rot, and keeps my block looking (and smelling) fresh!
As good as that olive oiled leather looks, I would strongly advise NOT using olive oil on your own belts!
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Great idea/ experiment G. Thanks for doing this!~
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+1 Great idea.
I've had Aero and Langlitz leather samples tacked on boards around my yard for over a year now. Best way to know how you leather's going to age is to get on it and start aging it to see what happens.
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Any updated shots G?
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Loving this thread, apart from the fact I now really, really, want one of the IHB-02s in natural leather…
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nah don't agree jimmy. let's see what happens down the road. it's a little too early to call it.
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this read might be of interest to folks hanging around this thread
http://leffot.com/2011/08/31/the-brownout-by-nick-horween/ -
A bit of warning: Olive oil rots over time, and smells really bad. I thought it would be a good idea to oil my big butcher block with olive oil, because, you know, its a cutting board, so what better to oil it with than olive oil, right? Wrong! After about a year, I noticed a foul odor that actually permeated the food and tasted horrible. I can't imagine the effect would be less on a nice piece of leather. Since that incident, I got a new butcher block, and oil it with mineral oil, which won't rot, and keeps my block looking (and smelling) fresh!
As good as that olive oiled leather looks, I would strongly advise NOT using olive oil on your own belts!
There's a good reason your chopping board became stinky.
Oil creates a seal, that will seal any sort of dirt, mud or tiny chopping remnants inside of it. It'd be like coating a piece of meat in vaseline so it degrades in an almost oxygen free environment and any space in that seal is going to reek.
