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Vegetable Tanned Natural Leather & Olive Oil..match made in heaven

tnjyoung

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So recently I purchased a vegetable tanned Corter belt in a natural finish. When it arrived and I tried it on, it was just too "white" for me. I began to research how to darken leather and I ran across an old method where olive oil was used. Boy am I happy I did. Here is the result. It was fun, too.
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mattface said:
I make a paste from olive oil and beeswax. It's pretty much what I use on all heavier leathers.
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That sounds like a winner. I read people's warnings about rancidity, but I am not too worried. Time will tell. My thoughts are that with wear the stain will stay, but the organic components of the oil will dissipate.
 
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I picked up a hand-tooled natural leather wallet that I am letting nature takes its' course in building patina.
 
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tnjyoung said:
That sounds like a winner. I read people's warnings about rancidity, but I am not too worried. Time will tell. My thoughts are that with wear the stain will stay, but the organic components of the oil will dissipate.
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I started using this on Brooks bicycle saddles about 6 years ago, when I was out of Proofide, and happened to have a big cake of beeswax on hand. I thought it sounded like a pretty good idea, so I looked it up and found that people had been using that mixture on tack and saddle leather for a long time. I've been applying it to all my bike seats a couple times a year ever since and never had any problem, and never been tempted to pay $12 for a little 25 gram tin of Proofide again.
 
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Olive oil is frequently used on veg tan leather to moisturize before or after dying. As you see it darkens natural leather a shade or two.
You should be good to go on that belt!
 
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Okay, I must admit, the photo I uploaded was taken just after the application of oil. It lightened about two shades by the end of the day. So I applied three additional coats of oil last night. Here is an updated photo from this morning. image.jpg
 
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